Jason Beck Officially Promoted to OC

[BillSU]

Rocky Long Bill.

Yeah, looked him up yesterday.

Coaching career[edit]​

Long returned to New Mexico as the head football coach on December 20, 1997. His overall won-loss record was 65–69 in 11 seasons. His 65 wins are the most of any head coach in program history. Long surpassed Roy W. Johnson's mark of 41 wins during the 2005 season.

Long led the Lobos to three straight bowl games from 2003 to 2005, a first in program history. The Lobos were bowl-eligible for seven straight seasons, from 2001 to 2007, another program record. This streak continued into the 2007 season as the Lobos accepted a bid to the New Mexico Bowl, where Long garnered his bowl win with a victory over the Nevada Wolf Pack.

After an 11-season career, Long resigned on November 17, 2008, two days after the Lobos' regular game season ended. Long cited that he was not the right person to lead the program to newer heights. He added that he had no plans of retirement, and that he wanted to continue to coach as a coordinator.[3] In 2011, he was promoted to head coach at San Diego State after two seasons as their defensive coordinator.

In 2020, Long resigned from San Diego State, and Brady Hoke was named as his replacement.[4] He left San Diego State with 81 wins, second all time in wins behind Don Coryell.[5] Soon after his resignation from SDSU, the University of New Mexico announced Long would be returning to the Lobos to take over as their defensive coordinator under new coach Danny Gonzales, a former player and assistant coach under Long at UNM as well as SDSU.[6]

San Diego State Aztecs (Mountain West Conference) (2011–2019)
2011	San Diego State	8–5	4–3	4th	L New Orleans
2012	San Diego State	9–4	7–1	T–1st	L Poinsettia
2013	San Diego State	8–5	6–2	2nd (West)	W Famous Idaho Potato
2014	San Diego State	7–6	5–3	T–1st (West)	L Poinsettia
2015	San Diego State	11–3	8–0	1st (West)	W Hawaii
2016	San Diego State	11–3	6–2	1st (West)	W Las Vegas	25	25
2017	San Diego State	10–3	6–2	2nd (West)	L Armed Forces
2018	San Diego State	7–6	4–4	4th (West)	L Frisco
2019	San Diego State	10–3	5–3	T–1st (West)	W New Mexico
San Diego State:	81–38	51–20
Total:	146–107

 

[SmilinBob]

Isn't Rocky still with the Pirate at MSU?

 

[dollarbill44]

Isn't Rocky still with the Pirate at MSU?

Let's go get him

 

[SmilinBob]

Let's go get him

Fire a shot over the bow, eh Bill?

 

[SuFTW]

Isn't Rocky still with the Pirate at MSU?

Are you talking about Zach Arnett?

 

[BillSU]

Isn't Rocky still with the Pirate at MSU?

Says he's still at New Mexico here.


Rocky Long

Current position
Biographical details
Playing career
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Head coaching record
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Awards
Long at 2016 Mountain West Media Days
Title	Defensive coordinator
Team	New Mexico
Conference	Mountain West
Born	January 27, 1950 (age 72) Provo, Utah
Alma mater	New Mexico (BEd)
1969–1971	New Mexico
1972–1973	BC Lions
1974	Detroit Wheels
1975–1976	BC Lions
Position(s)	Defensive back, quarterback
1972–1973	New Mexico (GA)
1974–1975	Eldorado HS (NM) (assistant)
1978	New Mexico (OB)
1979–1980	New Mexico (DB)
1981–1985	Wyoming (DC/DB)
1986–1987	BC Lions (LB)
1988–1990	TCU (DB)
1991–1995	Oregon State (DC)
1996–1997	UCLA (DC)
1998–2008	New Mexico
2009–2010	San Diego State (DC)
2011–2019	San Diego State
2020–present	New Mexico (DC/LB) <<<<<2022
Overall	146–107
Bowls	5–9
3 MWC (2012, 2015, 2016)
CFL Western All-Star (1977)

 

[SmilinBob]

What happened at MSU? I had no idea he left.

 

[CuseGrad94]

Are you talking about Zach Arnett?

They are on a roll, let it go.

 

[SmilinBob]

Are you talking about Zach Arnett?

Yikes...yes, that's it SuFTW. Thanks.

 

[dollarbill44]

Fire a shot over the bow, eh Bill?

Rather just send a boarding party out in the wee hours and haul him off the starboard side. Take the Cap'n s monkey too.

 

[hoopsupstate]

Nick is a fine coach and knows his stuff. Smart whitty dude. The players love him. Keep in mind Dino wanted specifically the 3-3-5. He needed someone outside the circle to implement it. So I can see why Nick was passed up after Ward got fired.

The question is does he have the instincts to be a coordinator? Can he call a game with this complicated blitz package? It’s not just giving him a title, but does he have the ability to recognize what’s happening during a game and make the correct calls.

 

[money3189]

The question is does he have the instincts to be a coordinator? Can he call a game with this complicated blitz package? It’s not just giving him a title, but does he have the ability to recognize what’s happening during a game and make the correct calls.

I agree. We dont know how he will do. He can do well or fail but he's been around enough to know how to run a defense in the Acc. Every position coach that landed a coordinator position took these same steps.

 

[EnviroSciGuy]

I agree. We dont know how he will do. He can do well or fail but he's been around enough to know how to run a defense in the Acc. Every position coach that landed a coordinator position took these same steps.

Aye, soon we'll know if he has the chops to be skipper, or if the crew of SyracuseFan will turn on him as just another scalawag.

 

[Stern]

OFFICIAL

 

[CuseLegacy]

 

[bigmike]

 

[CuseMan4]

Huge. Definitely absorbed the blow of Anae leaving as good as we could have. Now we just need a new offensive assistant. Do we hire a QB coach or does Beck remain the QB coach and OC? Then we hire for another position?

Really hope Dino moves fast with the DC but I want him to get it right. Need to continue the momentum on that side of the ball. Took huge steps the last 2 seasons.

 

[bigmike]

Looking for QB 1’s blessing now.

 

[NKR1978]

OFFICIAL

1. This is awesome. Think he'll do an amazing job for us.

2. Why can't SU choose photos with full crowds? For years we had our 2003 banner of Gerry, JB and Melo in front of an empty Done. It's so stupid.

 

[qdawgg]

Good sign.

 

[SmilinBob]

Official is a nice thing to see, LGO!

 

[phil77]

Its nice that Syracuse posted it but I think the boards clear stance was nothing is truely official until Jamie says something...

 

[PAcuse]

Huge. Definitely absorbed the blow of Anae leaving as good as we could have. Now we just need a new offensive assistant. Do we hire a QB coach or does Beck remain the QB coach and OC? Then we hire for another position?

Really hope Dino moves fast with the DC but I want him to get it right. Need to continue the momentum on that side of the ball. Took huge steps the last 2 seasons.

He will stay OC/QB, might be best QB coach in ACC
DC might take longer then people want

 

[qdawgg]

I need Jamie to post still

 

[Dcuse]

Its nice that Syracuse posted it but I think the boards clear stance was nothing is truely official until Jamie says something...

They posted his comments. Do you think they made those up and just put quotation marks around it?