'QB guru' Jedd Fisch drove SoCal star Dash Beierly to Arizona Wildcats

Arizona has met its quota for quarterbacks in the upcoming two recruiting cycles.

With the early signing period approaching later this month, the Wildcats are set to sign four-star Phoenix-area star Demond Williams for their 2024 recruiting class and the UA most recently landed a verbal commitment from three-star ’25 quarterback Dash Beierly, a junior at Chaparral High School in Temecula, California.

The 6-1, 215-pound Beierly (pronounced bye-early), who is rated by 247Sports.com as the No. 21 quarterback nationally, selected the Wildcats over BYU, Utah, Miami, Washington, Purdue, Oregon State and Minnesota. Beierly committed to Arizona the day after his official visit in November, when the Wildcats routed Utah in the final home game of the season.

“Really cool experience, high energy. I was surprised it rained that day though. ... The culture that they’re building is really special,” Beierly said. “The whole time I was there, it was just a lot of love.”

Beierly is the second commit of Arizona’s ’25 recruiting class, along with three-star Georgia tight end Bryce Lewis.

In three seasons at Chaparral, Beierly has passed for 4,782 yards, 41 touchdowns and 16 interceptions while rushing for 929 yards and 16 touchdowns.

Beierly joined the pipeline of high school quarterbacks to play for Fisch at Arizona, along with current starter Noah Fifita (’22), four-star Colorado star Brayden Dorman (’23) and Williams (’24). After sitting behind Jayden de Laura for over a season, Fifita took over the reins of Arizona’s offense and has 2,515 passing yards, 23 touchdowns and five interceptions with a 73.6% completion rate — and quarterbacked the 15th-ranked and red-hot Wildcats to six straight wins to end the regular season.

Like Fifita, who helped recruit current standouts such as wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan, linebacker Jacob Manu and tight end Keyan Burnett, among others, Beierly has “already been on the phone with some guys that I know about coming to Arizona and making this their home in the future and start balling.

“That’s definitely going to be something I’m working on, for sure,” Beierly said.

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Beierly joined ESPN Tucson’s “Spears and Ali” recently to talk about his commitment to Arizona and relationship with Fisch.

Why did you choose Arizona?

A: “It was a couple reasons. One of them: I used to live in Arizona and lived kind of outside of Phoenix and I liked the Arizona area growing up. Education purpose, Arizona has a good business school, and I don’t have my major yet, but that’s kind of where my major to go.

“On the football side, having a QB guru like Coach Fisch, he can challenge and develop me every day. It’s huge.”

How would you describe the recruiting process as a quarterback and the conversations you have with Fisch?

A: “Shoot, I’ve been recruited by them for about close to two years now. I’ve felt nothing but uncontrollable love from them, from the whole staff, the recruiters that are there. I never felt that from any other school, which made Arizona special to me, and I can see why they’re getting these big recruits. ... You can see the caliber of coaching and it’s not just Coach Fisch.

“All of the coaches together, you can see how they can turn a (1-11) season into the (15th-ranked) team in the nation? That’s something not a lot of coaches can do, and it’s special what Coach Fisch is doing over there.”

Looking at Fifita performing well, is this similar to what people can expect from you in this system?

A: “You can easily see how Arizona presents the quarterback very well. Look at Noah Fifita, he’s, what, 5-10? Me being undersized, it doesn’t matter, because the way coach can set you up in this amazing offense — and Fifita is balling right now. I’m glad he’s balling right now.”