New DC: Rocky Long (now official)

[OburgOrange]

When is it safe to panic about this?

Now

 

[qdawgg]

When is it safe to panic about this?

Panic about what?

 

[orangenauburn]

Panic about what?

The Disco

 

[BlazeOrange]

Well, the HC at New Mexico is Danny Gonzales. Danny is a former DC at SDSU, and Rocky is his mentor.

His record at NM is 2-5, then 3-9 and then 2-10. He is not expected to be the NM HC much longer. It is not a really stable place to be working right now.

Any chance that Rocky was consulted about Gonzales and we're expecting/waiting for the hammer to fall at NM?

 

[sutomcat]

Any chance that Rocky was consulted about Gonzales and we're expecting/waiting for the hammer to fall at NM?

I doubt it. Any school who was thinking of firing their HC and has not done it yet is not very smart.

The best candidates go quickly.

When you wait weeks or months after the regular season ends, you end up like Syracuse in January of 2005, and hire someone not qualified or appropriate for the position.

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

!!!!!

 

[CA Monk]

Just a general Emily shout out.
(some kind of cool emoji here I can’t think of)

 

[RF2044]

!!!!!

Great news, IMO.

We hired The Architect.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

!!!!!

Point me in the direction of Albuquerque.

 

[djorange1989]

ESPN Albuquerque The Team has never, ever lied to us before, so why would they now?!!

great great hire, really excited about this!

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

This is a home run! All my SDSU friends have had nothing but glowing reviews of their interactions with Rocky. Very excited.

 

[0.2 YNdeeR]

!!!!!

Booom. Awesome. OG of the 335. Veteran guy who can take over the defense seamlessly and won't be sniffing for offers all the time. Come on down.

 

[EnviroSciGuy]

I doubt it. Any school who was thinking of firing their HC and has not done it yet is not very smart.

The best candidates go quickly.

When you wait weeks or months after the regular season ends, you end up like Syracuse in January of 2005, and hire someone not qualified or appropriate for the position.

I'm confused; did GRob have a pet beaver?

 

[MikeSU02]

Another great offseason (at least started) like we had last year.

Great portal gets. Great holds (we were always going to lose some guys). We'll land a few more key guys.

Beck and Rocky as new OC and DC.

Great job by the program, inclusive of JW and Dino.

 

[djorange1989]

This is a home run! All my SDSU friends have had nothing but glowing reviews of their interactions with Rocky. Very excited.

yeah, I have not met Rocky but have heard the same thing, just a down to earth football coach, no BS/no sleaze guy.

 

[orangepassion]

 

[djorange1989]

I'm confused; did GRob have a pet beaver?

yes, I think the beaver tried to run it into the end zone 7 times at the goal line against Iowa

 

[sutomcat]

Very happy with the quick (and proper) responses to the departure of our OC and DC. Coach Babers and SUAD John Wildhack did a great job responding to this.

Nice to see us acting like a P5 school that really wants to win!

 

[djorange1989]

Point me in the direction of Albuquerque.

not sure, but when you get there, this rabbit told me to make a left turn

 

[qdawgg]

yeah, I have not met Rocky but have heard the same thing, just a down to earth football coach, no BS/no sleaze guy.

He’ll love it here then as long as he stays off the game threads lol

 

[PhatOrange]

This is great and all but we need to add a recruiter

 

[qdawgg]

When is it safe to panic about this?

Time to panic…..

 

[orangenauburn]

That's not Rocky, that's Donald Trump

 

[djorange1989]

This is great and all but we need to add a recruiter

we still have a slot open and hopefully we get a strong recruiter that way, in the meantime, be happy as hell about this hire.

 

[MikeSU02]

Very happy with the quick (and proper) responses to the departure of our OC and DC. Coach Babers and SUAD John Wildhack did a great job responding to this.

Nice to see us acting like a P5 school that really wants to win!

Maybe you could give a better POV than I could, assuming we keep progressing this off season, when was the last time we were looking at back to back successful offseasons for football like this?