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So.Mn.Fan -> RE: Gopher Football (1/22/2009 4:14:51 AM)
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It doesn't take long to figure out Jedd Fisch has a plan. Nothing that's happened from the time he convinced Steve Spurrier to let him be a graduate assistant has occurred by chance.
Every lesson has been saved for the day when he could run his own offense. Now, at 32, he has his chance as the Gophers' offensive coordinator.
"I am thrilled,'' said Fisch, who coached receivers under head coach Mike Shanahan in Denver last season. "That's why I took the job. I could have taken other jobs, where I would not have been calling plays, where I would have been coaching a position. ... This is the job where I can, along with our staff, develop an offensive game plan.''
Fisch is a New Jersey native who went to school at Florida specifically because he wanted to get on the field and learn from Spurrier. That took some doing.
"I had to scratch and claw, scratch and claw,'' Fisch said.
At Florida he took notes on how Spurrier worked with quarterbacks, notes he still has today. At his next job, working defensive quality control for the Houston Texans, he learned the fundamentals of defense from Dom Capers, and ways to attack defenses.
Baltimore? In four seasons there -- two spent working with quarterbacks -- he learned from Brian Billick.
Last year in Denver he worked with Broncos passing game coordinator Jeremy Bates -- his best friend in coaching -- and learned how to assemble a game plan. All that accumulated knowledge will now enter his own playbook.
"This is my first time as coordinator, calling plays,'' Fisch said. "I hope I can take everything I've learned and make it my own.''
The Gophers signed him to a two-year contract that could be worth a total of $650,000. He has a $200,000 base salary from now through Feb. 15, 2010. If he's still on staff as of March 1, 2010, he gets a $125,000 bonus. The second year of the deal calls for a $325,000 salary.
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