College football coaches can’t talk about specific recruits until they’ve officially signed to play for a school, but there are no NCAA rules regarding speaking in generalities.
So while there won’t be any comments from Arizona’s Jedd Fisch anytime soon about the decommitment of 5-star Tucson edge rusher Elijah Rushing, who was in line to be the highest-ranked recruit in program history, that doesn’t mean he can’t voice his displeasure in losing Rushing (and other recent decommits) while opining about the state of recruiting in college football.
“For some reason, commitments in football don’t mean nearly the same as commitments in college basketball and college baseball and college soccer, which is a bad thing,” Fisch said Thursday, during his final press conference ahead of Saturday’s game at No.