The job as equipment manager didn’t come through. Neither did a position as a student assistant. Failing to land another spot as a recruiting intern could have made Jedd Fisch feel like he had struck out in his attempts to gain an entry-level position in Florida’s football offices.
He was only just getting started.
Fisch asked for a meeting with Steve Spurrier, who was then Florida’s head coach, and was rejected. Email was not widely used by coaches in the mid-1990s, so Fisch needed to find another way to communicate with the visor-wearing icon he longed to have as a mentor.