Bill Belichick just gave Arizona and coach Jedd Fisch the best recruiting gift possible.

Print the posters. Make up some shirts. Produce a social media graphic and then schedule it to send out every day between now and the end of the Early Signing Period. Speaking to reporters on the field of Arizona Stadium earlier this week, the New England Patriots head coach offered major praise of his former colleague.

“This is a good program. Jedd’s done a really good job of getting things going in the two years,” Belichick said, per The Arizona Daily Star’s Michael Lev. “It’s pretty obvious that everything they do is to prepare players to move on to the next level, whether that’s football or wherever they go from here.”

Fisch worked on Belichick’s New England staff as a quarterbacks coach in 2020 before taking over the Arizona job. The longtime NFL coach has often talked about trying to build Arizona to better represent an NFL operation and get its players ready for the NFL.

Six of Arizona’s 11 on-field coaches this season have some kind of experience — be it as a player or coach — in the NFL. Fisch has worked with seven NFL teams throughout his 20-plus years as a coach. He often referred to Arizona this offseason as the “33rd NFL team.”

“What we’ve done is we’ve tried to commit to allowing our players to see it from the inside-out, to see what the NFL looks like, to see what it looks like to be a pro, to see what it looks like to build champions,” he said prior to the season.

And then Arizona went out and won four more games than the year prior, punctuated by an upset win over UCLA in Pasadena and a Territorial Cup win over Arizona State. The program is trending up.

Even Belichick sees it.