Head coach Brady Hoke called the end of the San Diego State football team’s season disappointing and “unacceptable.” But even though SDSU recorded its sixth straight losing season, this year will likely go down as the best year in the history of the Mountain West Conference
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For the second time in three weeks, the San Diego State football team had at least a 17-point lead and lost. For the fourth time in four weeks, SDSU stumbled and found a way to lose a game. Now, for the fourth time in four years, the Aztecs have officially lost at least eight games in a season.
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Head coach Brady Hoke wouldn’t call last weekend’s loss to Wyoming the low point of the season, but he didn’t have to. The local media already has.
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There are heartbreakers, gut-wrenchers and ulcer-inducers. There are collapses, meltdowns, implosions, choke jobs and complete failures. And then there’s the San Diego State football team’s loss against Wyoming on Saturday night.
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The San Diego State football team needs two wins in its final three games to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2003. And with No. 16 / 14 Utah still on the schedule, SDSU’s best chance to grab two wins will be against Wyoming on Saturday and UNLV on Nov. 28. But don’t tell head coach Brady Hoke that.
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TCU defensive end Jerry Hughes came into Saturday’s game with nine sacks this season, averaging a little more than one per game. He’s 6 feet 3 inches tall, 257 pounds, runs a 4.6 40-yard dash and is a projected first-round pick in this year’s NFL Draft.
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All season, the TCU football team’s defense has been getting most of the hype and credit for the Horned Frogs’ Bowl Championship Series potential. But on Saturday against San Diego State, the TCU offense, led by quarterback Andy Dalton, stole the spotlight, routing SDSU 55-12.
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The San Diego State football team finally made it to .500 this late in a season for the first time since 2003. SDSU won’t have long to celebrate that achievement, though. On Saturday, the No. 6-ranked team in the country, TCU, heads to Qualcomm Stadium and will bring a fierce defense and an underrated offense.
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Pac-10 recruiters come through Nick Baiz’s part of town every so often. They’ll ask about his players, and Baiz will answer them honestly. Sometimes the Pac-10 recruiters listen. But other times, they have their minds made up long before Baiz moves his lips.
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San Diego State’s star junior receiver Vincent Brown didn’t play on Saturday night against New Mexico and missed more than a half against Colorado State on Oct. 24 because of an injured right thumb. Yet without the electrifying Brown, sophomore quarterback Ryan Lindley has played the best football of his young career. In the past eight quarters alone, Lindley has thrown for 712 yards and a staggering nine touchdowns.
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Despite a sluggish start against the Lobos, Aztecs win close game
It wasn’t pretty and it wasn’t easy. At times, it was downright hard to watch. But on Saturday, Halloween night, the San Diego State football team improved to 4-4 (2-2 in Mountain West Conference play). Against a winless New Mexico team (0-8, 0-4 MWC) SDSU gritted out a 23-20 win in front of a meager crowd of fewer than 13,000. But keeping consistent with his mantra of there being “no good losses,” head coach Brady Hoke reiterated that there are no bad wins.
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New Mexico is 0-7 this season, has lost by 17 or more points in six of its seven games and ranks, at best, 100th in the nation in six of the eight most important statistical categories. Yet despite knowing all that, the San Diego State football team has some serious motivation to take down the Lobos on Saturday.
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With no time left in the first half against Colorado State on Saturday, the San Diego State football team down by 14, had given up more than 100 yards on the ground, and had watched its star junior wide receiver, Vincent Brown, run off the field with a thumb injury. It was a scene SDSU had seen before.
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For head coach Brady Hoke, there is no such thing as a moral victory. So when the San Diego State football team came close to knocking off then-No. 18 BYU at Qualcomm Stadium this past Saturday, Hoke made sure the media knew he wasn’t happy losing by 10 points.
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In what was possibly the best game of his young career, it was Ryan Lindley’s one big mistake that may have cost his team the upset victory. With the San Diego State football team tied 14-14 with No. 18 Brigham Young, the sophomore quarterback drove his team 56 yards to the BYU 9-yard line late in the second half. But an interception in the endzone effectively prevented SDSU from posting any more points before halftime and allowed his counterpart, Cougar quarterback Max Hall, to drive 80 yards down the field and score on a 1-yard run as time ran out in the second half.
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Last Tuesday, San Diego State football head coach Brady Hoke said BYU senior quarterback Max Hall was “one of the best two or three quarterbacks in this country.” On Saturday, Hall showed why. In a 38-28 victory against SDSU, Hall wouldn’t let his No. 18 Cougars go down. He carried the rock 14 times for 51 yards and a touchdown, completed 27 of his 39 passes for 346 yards and tallied three touchdowns through the air. But his statistics only tell part of the story.
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The San Diego State football team is coming off a bye week, which head coach Brady Hoke said was very good for the players. “In this day and age of football, this is a 12-month-a-year undertaking for kids,” Hoke said. “I think it’s important during that bye week to get them some time to get off their feet and to mentally get themselves ready for what’s ahead of them in this marathon.”
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Editor’s note: Each week, The Daily Aztec will pick the winners of every Mountain West Conference game.
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If the five-turnover performance against Air Force on Oct. 3 wasn’t sophomore quarterback Ryan Lindley’s career-worst statistical game, then Saturday’s 7-for-27 outing against New Mexico State certainly was.
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Kazee rushes for more than 100 yards and Hemmings scores on fumble recovery
In Saturday’s game against New Mexico State, the San Diego State football team was not its stereotypical self. The much-maligned running game featured an inspired effort by the SDSU offensive line and 101 yards on the ground with a touchdown for freshman running back Walter Kazee.
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Despite losing two consecutive games, the San Diego State football team is a 17-point favorite against New Mexico State this Saturday. But head coach Brady Hoke said he isn’t concerned with spreads and is more worried about getting SDSU its second victory of the season.
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San Diego State football quarterback Ryan Lindley once threw five interceptions in a game as a freshman at El Capitan High School. He says he hasn’t thrown that many in a single game since. But on Saturday against Air Force, he sure came close.
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Listening to San Diego State football head coach Brady Hoke talk about the triple option offense is a little bit like sitting through a math class. There are a whole lot of steps, formulas and solutions; and in the end, somehow it all makes sense.
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Last weekend was a rough time to be a Mountain West Conference team. Two of the three MWC Bowl Championship Series’ “party crashers” faltered —BYU was trounced by Florida State, 54-28; while Utah lost to Oregon, 31-24 — and the San Diego State football team was beaten by Western Athletic Conference member Idaho. Now, only two teams, Colorado State and TCU, remain undefeated this season in the MWC. Here’s a look around the Mountain to see whom the MWC will play this Saturday.
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On paper, the San Diego State football team should beat Idaho. Statistically, the SDSU running game should wear out the Vandal defense while the Aztecs’ passing offense exploits mismatches. Theoretically, SDSU’s 3-3-5 defense should be too much for Idaho to handle. But as the cliché goes, that’s why they play the games.
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While San Diego State lost 34-20 at Idaho, it was a rough day overall for the Mountain West Conference.
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Brady Hoke has been known to be quite the motivator in his past several months as head coach of the San Diego State football team, but this week, he’s taken motivation to a new level. In the Aztec Athletics Center, where SDSU works out, watches film and studies; on almost every door there is a piece of paper with Idaho’s logo on it, reading “Beat the Vandals!”
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Offense dominates on the ground and in the air at Qualcomm Stadium
It was in front of probably the biggest crowd they’ll see at home this year — against a Football Championship Subdivision school. In short, it was a game the San Diego State football team was supposed to win. While it wasn’t perfect or flashy, SDSU (1-1) took care of business against Southern Utah (1-1) on Saturday night, winning 35-19.
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After San Diego State football head coach Brady Hoke apologized to the Red and Black faithful for losing 33-14 to UCLA at his weekly press conference on Tuesday, he made a statement that sounded more like a promise than a coaching cliché.
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Kickoff return and blocked kick seal the Aztecs' fate at UCLA
PASADENA — San Diego State sophomore quarterback Ryan Lindley throws a 78-yard bomb to receiver Vincent Brown and the text messages start flowing in. “Got to like this game so far,” one reads. “We are playing amazing,” says another. The ensuing kickoff comes seconds later. Junior kicker Bryan Shields boots a fluttering ball to the 23-yard line, and UCLA’s Terrence Austin rips off a 65-yard return. One play later, the Bruins score.
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PASADENA --- All it took was 16 seconds. When the game clock showed three minutes remaining in the first quarter, the San Diego State football team and its fans were on top of the world. Sophomore quarterback Ryan Lindley just scored his second touchdown of the game on a 78-yard bomb to junior wide receiver Vincent Brown to put SDSU up 14-3 against UCLA in the Rose Bowl.
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Head coach Brady Hoke has kept this San Diego State football team under wraps all summer. Practices were closed to the public. Media could only see the team two days a week for 30 minutes at a time. Even the big scrimmage at Qualcomm Stadium was closed to the SDSU faithful. But in just two days, Hoke will finally reveal his Aztec squad at the Rose Bowl against UCLA.
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One summer San Diego day, on El Capitan High School’s football field, Ryan Lindley and his friends were standing around, waiting. Tommie Draheim was there. So was the kid who played Wing-T quarterback for his Pop Warner team. So were a bunch of other freshmen, of all shapes and sizes, hoping to find their niche on a high school football squad.
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Offensive Line Projected Starters: Tommie Draheim, Ikaika Aken-Moleta, Trask Iosefa, Emilio Rivera, Peter Nelson. This group has taken plenty of heat from new head coach Brady Hoke since he arrived on Montezuma Mesa. He’s always referred to them as the weak spot on the team, but sophomore quarterback Ryan Lindley believes this unit has what it takes to get the job done in 2009.
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The time is upon us, ladies and gentlemen. Training camps are wrapping up, the end-zone logos are being painted in the stadiums and football teams all around the country are gearing up for their first games of the season. So keeping with tradition, it’s time for the time-honored San Diego State tradition: The Daily Aztec’s second Annual SDSU Football Season Projection! Once again, we simulated the Aztecs’ season on EA Sports’ NCAA Football 10. Here are the results:
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Rocky Long may not be a household name, but he is known all too well by the San Diego State football team. For the past 11 seasons as head coach at New Mexico, his teams have caused problems for SDSU on numerous occasions.
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On Dec. 16 of last year, San Diego State football head coach Brady Hoke held his first press conference at SDSU, just hours after he was appointed to his new position.
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Starting this Thursday, The Daily Aztec Sports section will run its “Forecasting the Mountain” segment in the weekly San Diego State football preview page. In the segment, several members of the DA’s Sports staff will pick the winners of the weekend’s upcoming Mountain West Conference games. But before the crew gets started on the 2009 MWC season, The Daily Aztec Sports section has decided to release its first-ever Preseason MWC Poll. Here is how the section feels the MWC will play out this season.
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With a 2-10 season and disappointing memories firmly in the rearview mirror, San Diego State football members addressed reporters at last Friday’s annual media day to gear up for SDSU’s upcoming training camp. Here’s a look at some of the memorable quotes from Friday’s hour-long press conference.
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The 2009 San Diego State football season is about to get underway today, with this afternoon’s practice marking the official start of training camp. There are some new faces, new positions, new acquisitions and of course, plenty of headlines. Take a look at some of the biggest question marks and headlines heading into another season of SDSU football.
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With little more than two months until the season opener at the Rose Bowl against UCLA, The Daily Aztec takes a look at the San Diego State football team’s current depth chart.
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There was always an “if” with DeMarco Sampson. It followed him as much as his own shadow. It was everywhere. On the team bus. The football field. Even in the classroom. When he was an incoming freshman wideout at San Diego State in 2004, “if” he could only get his grades up, he could produce right away. When he finally made the team in 2005, “if” he could just get some more playing time, he could be something special.
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Passing offense and defense look strong in final scrimmage
On a day that started with fun and games, the San Diego State football team’s Family Day and spring scrimmage ended with some drama as senior kicker Lane Yoshida booted a 49-yard field goal with 17 seconds left to give the Black team the victory on Saturday’s annual Red and Black Game.
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At first blush, San Diego State’s junior defensive end B. J. Williams appears out of place. He’s 250 pounds, and at 6 feet 3 inches, he’s lanky. He is by no means the prototypical run-stopping defensive end, and sandwiched between 600 pounds of guard and tackle, he looks overmatched.
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Rocky Long’s 3-3-5 scheme creates big problems for offenses
To get a feel for how special Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher is, you have to go back to his days at New Mexico. Nine years to be exact.
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Tony DeMartinis is a visual talker. He points at things, shows spots when he speaks and uses his hands to tell a story. On a cool Saturday afternoon, the San Diego State football team’s tight end has just finished running wind sprints. He walks toward the sideline, still breathing heavy, and is asked a question about his knee injury. He starts to speak, and then the hands start moving.
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With the recent achievement of both San Diego State basketball programs, coupled with the success of the baseball and softball teams, fans of SDSU athletics have plenty to be excited about.
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San Diego State’s newest football head coach admitted it wasn’t a lot of time. Any time you have a three-week span to do a job that normally takes 12 months, it is rough. But Brady Hoke, the 17th head football coach in SDSU history, thinks his first recruiting class was a successful one, despite the time constraints.
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With Long out as head coach, the search for his replacement is heating up
After three seasons without a winning record, going 9-27 overall, Chuck Long was fired as head coach of the San Diego State football team on Nov. 21. Now, about three weeks later, the SDSU Athletic Department has yet to announce his replacement. These are the most likely candidates to lead the Aztecs in 2009 and beyond:
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How can you not fail a coaching staff that was fired for being so poor? Head coach Chuck Long and his assistants failed to get the job done for the third consecutive season and guided the 2008 San Diego State football team to its first ever double-digit loss season. The team ranked 100th or worse in the nation in nine statistical categories and Long – and most likely his assistants, too — depart SDSU with a three-year record of 9-27. In Long’s tenure, the team never finished higher than sixth place in the final Mountain West Conference standings.
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Mike Schmidt returns to the field two weeks after tearing his MCL
Mike Schmidt wouldn’t go as far as to say unsung, but on a team full of seniors such as wide receiver Darren Mougey, running back Tyler Campbell and linebacker Russell Allen, Schmidt knows where he stands on the San Diego State football team’s senior totem pole.
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In the final game of the 2008 season, SDSU sends seniors out on a high note
With less than 18,000 people in attendance at Qualcomm Stadium (closer to 10,000 if you don’t count the thousands of elementary school students who were there to perform at halftime or the parents who were there to watch them), it could have been a nice quiet way for the San Diego State football team to lose again and bring a merciful end to one of the worst seasons in program history.
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A loss on Senior Night to 5-6 UNLV would not only be disheartening, but would put an exclamation point on one of the worst seasons in the San Diego State football team’s history. SDSU has already lost double-digit games for the first time in school history, is on a seven-game losing streak – the longest such streak in 25 years – and is in danger of going winless in conference play for the first time since 1960.
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SDSU gets pounded by the No. 7 Utes and loses by 49 at home
If the lopsided stat sheet didn’t tell the whole story of Saturday night’s game, then Utah senior Brent Casteel’s postgame reaction certainly did.
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As 28-point underdogs, the prognosticators are already predicting a Utah blowout this Saturday. However, don’t write off the 1-9 San Diego State football team just yet. Playing with nothing to lose this weekend, SDSU might just have a chance against the No. 8 Utes.
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Three fumbles and an interception lead to 24 Cougar points
B.J. Williams’ third-down sack should have been the catalyst. The sophomore ran around BYU’s 6-foot-8-inch, 330-pound senior tackle David Oswald, and killed the Cougar’s game-opening drive.
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As if losing to 3-6 Wyoming this past Saturday wasn’t bad enough, now the San Diego State football team has to travel to Provo, Utah — a place where it hasn’t won in the last three attempts — to play No. 15 BYU.
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SDSU again finds itself struggling with its ground game on both sides of ball
While most people were taking a break from their jobs and relaxing during the weekend, Saturday was business as usual for the San Diego State football team, as its inability to effectively run the ball or stop the run sealed its fate once again.
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While the San Diego State football team’s record may have dropped to 1-7 with a four-point loss to Colorado State this past weekend, the team’s inspired play has head coach Chuck Long excited about Saturday’s matchup against Wyoming.
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Aztecs put up their second highest point total of the year but still fall to Rams
The outcome of the game was familiar enough. It was another solemn march into the locker room, another night without celebration and another tally in the loss column as the San Diego State football team fell to Colorado State, 38-34.
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SDSU suffers 63-point beatdown by MWC rival New Mexico
Pick a negative adjective. Any one will do. Terrible? Atrocious? Horrifying? “Embarrassed,” San Diego State football head coach Chuck Long said to AM 600 KOGO. “I’m embarrassed for us and for our football team.”
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If the San Diego State football team wasn’t in complete disarray before last Saturday’s 35-10 loss to Air Force, it certainly is now. SDSU now ranks 100th or worse in 11 NCAA statistical categories including dead last in the nation in rushing defense, 112th in total offense, 109th in total defense and 117th in third-down conversion percentage.
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Even head coach Chuck Long, normally Mr. Optimistic, couldn’t paint this one in a positive light. In front of 43,630 fans at Qualcomm Stadium on Saturday night, the San Diego State football team blew a 10-7 halftime lead and completely fell apart on both sides of the ball in the second half, losing to Air Force, 35-10.
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Rush for more than 380 yards in consecutive weeks against his defense, tag him after the whistle, or even try to block him with your biggest offensive lineman. Anything you do to Corey Boudreaux won’t matter. The San Diego State football team’s safety will do the only thing he knows how to do: fight back.
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Falling to TCU by a score of 41-7 was a big blow for the San Diego State football team, but the biggest loss coming out of last Saturday’s defeat was quarterback Ryan Lindley. The redshirt freshman was ridden out of bounds by Horned Frog linebacker Daryl Washington and landed awkwardly on his throwing shoulder, causing him to miss the final three quarters of the game. Lindley’s injured wing has been feeling better, but it still may cause him to miss Saturday’s game against Air Force.
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Redshirt freshman quarterback Ryan Lindley, arm in a sling, wincing as he rotated an ice bag around his injured throwing shoulder pretty much told the whole story of Saturday night’s loss to TCU. The Horned Frogs pounded the San Diego State football team, 41-7, at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. The young SDSU quarterback’s injury was just the first of many disappointments in an all-around frustrating night.
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Although San Diego State was blown out by TCU this weekend, the increasingly BCS-worthy Mount West Conference had its share of close games:
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Coming off its first victory of the season against Idaho last Saturday, the San Diego State football team won't have much time to celebrate as it heads to Texas to play Mountain West Conference rival TCU this weekend. "TCU is an excellent football team," head coach Chuck Long said. "Everybody is talking about BYU and Utah, but I don't know why they aren't talking about TCU. They are excellent on both sides of the football and have a number of returners back from last year." The Horned Frogs will head into this Saturday's matchup fresh off a loss to No. 1 Oklahoma last weekend. The Sooners scored 35 points against a TCU defense which has allowed just 233.6 yards per game this season.
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Ask Eric Miclot how many surgeries he's had on his left knee and the answer is surprising. "I think four," he says after pondering for a second, "or maybe five." The San Diego State football team's tight end has seen so many setbacks in his road to a full recovery from a devastating knee injury that he can't even tell you how many times he's been on the operating table.
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Against lowly Idaho, SDSU gets win thanks to strong performance from offense
It was a home game, coming off of a bye, against one of the worst teams in the country. It was a game it was supposed to win. But for the first time all season, the San Diego State football team actually lived up to expectations, routing Idaho at Qualcomm Stadium, 45-17.
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Atiyyah Henderson gets first 100-yard game since facing Cal Poly in 2006
Maybe it was the jersey change from No. 21 to No. 6. Maybe it was the injuries that kept him out of several games the past two years. Or maybe it was the San Diego State football team's offensive philosophy shifting to a pass-first scheme. Whatever it was, junior running back Atiyyah Henderson seemed to be a forgotten man in the SDSU offense. So much so that even Idaho head coach Robb Akey couldn't call the running back who torched his Vandal defense repeatedly Saturday night by name.
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