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“AZTECS–IN NEED OF WINS”
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San Diego State football..in a place we never expected them to be.
Without wins, without fans, about to be without the Mountain West Conference
Coach Sean Lewis enters his second season surrounded by chaos. Roster turnover. Roster defections. 49-and-55 new players the past two years. Virtually no continuity.
A team with a (7-19) record over the last two plus year, after having seen Brady Hoke-Rocky Long guide the program to a combined (106-48) record over a decade plus, complemented by bowl games
Even worse, attendance has plunged at Snapdragon Stadium. From 15,973-season tickets in year one, to just over 5,900 currently. More bothersome, the final two home games of last year’s (3-9) collapse, just over 10,000-fans showed up in person to see SDSU lose again.
The ticket prices remain high. The exit of the MWC to be part of the new look at Pac 12-has been met with virtually no emotional charge, considering the Pac 12 is no longer USC-UCLA-Oregon-Washington, but more and more this looks like MWC-2.0.
Coach Sean Lewis preseason workout press conference comments:
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Excited to do some football this year
Different feel this year..better comfort in building with what we are doing
Still reviewing scholarship limits from 85 grants to 20-walkons
Need continuity-retention of our roster is taking place
Had only 1-staff member exit
Not doom-gloom in college football
We will build momentum
Autopsy-we learned alot..painful learning was necessary
Lack of development-lack of depth-we have addressed that
We must learn how to win..3-losses by 9-total points
We have 24-days now to get better and polish in the bubble
We want players consistently good who can be great
Retaining our leaders was critical..they wanted to stay
Motivated-inspired whole lockeroom
Time for us to win…we did not win enough..3 wins is painful
We talk alot about money with NIL..having a GM helps us alot
Excitement is players have money in their pocket..better environment
In the past-we spent time helping players with their family problems
Coach’s Book Club…handed out Jay Bilas book on ‘Toughness’
Keeps referring to Mt Everest..higher you go-air gets thinner-it gets tougher
That is what we want to do-climb Mt Everest
We have 26-players recruited already..our players are our calling card
Highest ranked class in MWC already
Our leaders met with those recruits-sold them on believing
3-9 never acceptable..I was poor…need to understand detail of the plan
Developing this team is not like making (:90) rice..this takes time
We are in base camp-ready to scale mountain-done work-let’s go do this
QB-Jaden Denegal..growth-learning offense without use of GPS
He has learned language-gained confidence
Bert Emanuel..Super power to run-explosive playmaker-find his role
Want to use all of our players to add to what we can do
Emanuel..high character player-we will develop his role
Tre White-gets lots attention-pressure is a privilege-became a star
His results came as he bought into the process
Identify the talent-build it thru our environment
1-of best players in college football..make everyone dangerous
Has added more techniques to improve his game
Ross Maseuli moves to OC-played guard out of critical need
Tall trees in offensive line..big people beat up little people
We think protecting QB is utmost to offense
Luxury Marquez Cooper-to have 5,000-yard player-looking for next one
Lucky Sutton..Byron Cardwell..Christian Washington knocking at door
Lucky Sutton’s time
Caldwell started at Oregon-pads come figure out what we have
Jordan Napier-learned and became a star
We have explosive guys in that WR room
We have speed with genetic traits
Let them compete-see who steps up
Big question..how physical are we..how tough are we.
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Practices open to season ticket holders the next two weeks
Fan Fest-Thursday night-August 14th-scrimmage Snapdragon Stadium
Pulled curtain back-take the helmet off-introduce our players to fans
August 21st…Team dinner on the USS Midway
Entire team has 3.0-GPA from last year
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