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San Diego State has hit the ‘reset button’ after last years gut-wrenching (3-9) football season.
Bad losses.
Underachieving offense
Defense collapsed at the end of the season

An off season plagued by more transfers and defections
The QB of the future, Danny O’Neil, bailing after a successful freshman campaign

For Coach Sean Lewis, a different type of recruiting drive.
Get more high school players here
Raid more transfers from Group of Five and 1AA schools
Work to get more NIL money to retain some of his top players

Coach Sean Lewis Comments on ‘Hitting the Reset Button’:
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Added 37 new players to off season roster
We had great response with the 619-Support group
Help us build roster..culture..bounce back from last year

Each year is a brand new team..it’s a new group
We make adjustments every year
As a whole season, this is a new team-new year
New group of guys-new cast of characters-new roles

We refined the process of what we did last year
We teach differently..and have to maximize the time we have with them
It takes a year and a half to put things in place…we have to speed that up
Clear sense of urgency in building

Having Jordan Napier here to tell players how to expedite
We don’t have game experience at QB..it’s fun for us to believe in the kids
Now these transfers come in to reignite these kids careers who transferred in

We saw alot in person in Bert Emanuel at Central Michigan
Real dual threat QB-can run..can throw..cerebral kids
Jayden Denegal-Micnhigan..great foundation of Football-101
Both QBs are the same..highly competitive
Keep continuity of our offense intact with their style

RB-Christian Washington went away..came back with lots experience
He does alot of stuff that Marquez Cooper did
Only 4-running backs on roster  this year
Confidence in Cam Davis-Lucky Sutton and the incoming backs-we have

Prototype OTs in my system…I want bigs…eye to eye with me
Want a waterfall of OL bearing down on defensive guys
Size-mass-length and value I want here.

Biggest piece of our recruits…we are balanced..half high school..half transfer
Want to build thru high school ranks and then supplement with transfers
Portal-will fill holes from us.

Dallas Fincher..OG-transfer from Michigan State..had family connection
He started games in Big 10-lots of experience-solidifies interior OL
We need strength in core in that offensive line-cannot be crippled

19-transfers from other schools
Rules keep changing..staff has to pay attention to all the changes
Intermittent decision making on NCAA level
We have different plans depending on what NCAA does
Things are coming down the pipe that will force changes
Revenue share for players is coming-we have plans in place.

Coaches convention wants 10-day transfer portal..1-time window
Coaches like that..but every person at the table has an opinion
10-day window helps continuity
But complicated because of semester-quarters academic plans
We want to corral the calendar…
It is a brave new world out there-and we have to be ready for change

Ideal world..would like spring transfer window to go get graduate transfer
Late JUCO kids..late high school players..could be open in late spring

Tampering is still an epidemic..it is going on
Our guys stayed..darned proud our all conference players stayed
Great staff on this floor…great kids in that lockeroom

Danny O’Neill…support the kid to make decision to go home…I granted him his release
Marquez Cooper..NFL organizations called to inquire about him

Next…we have to deep connect as a team..learn to weather the storms  that are coming…re-connect is the key word this year…Did not happen last year-I was not intentional enough to carve out the time to connect with all these players..there were so many things going on…at Crunch time-we need to know guy next to you is willing to make the sacrifice…Cannot have ‘bad ball’ in our system…the human element must improve…Too many independent thinking players last year…
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