Rocky Long
Rocky Long
Roderick John "Rocky" Long, Jr.is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the San Diego State University. Promoted on January 12, 2011 from defensive coordinator, he succeeded Brady Hoke. Long was the head football coach as his alma mater, the University of New Mexico, from 1998 to 2008. He played professionally with BC Lions of the Canadian Football Leagueand the Detroit Wheels of World Football League...
next spark
We need a spark to get us to the next level. I thought we underachieved some this year.
best chance draft executives improve nfl outside practices scouts watch
The scouts and NFL executives all watch the practices real closely, so outside of the combine, it's the players' best chance to improve their draft status.
bowls good opportunity scouts
They may not get as much attention, but scouts still go to those bowls so it was a very good opportunity for them.
offered staff
As of right now, no one on our staff has been offered another job, and no one has been fired.
close coaching excited fill opening soon wish
I know Grady is excited about coaching close to his hometown. We wish him well, and we'll fill the opening as soon as we can.
beat chance guessing guys last legitimate none opinion played
In my opinion Utah, last year, could have played with any of those guys and had a legitimate chance to beat them. I'm guessing that none of those guys wanted to play them either.
season veteran
He started off this season as a confident, veteran quarterback.
capable definitely good played test watching
He played most of the game, so we got a pretty good sense of what he is capable of doing from watching the tape. He'll definitely test our defense.
extremely focused talented time
It's not necessarily a disadvantage to play so quickly, but it will be tough. They're a very talented team, so we're going to have to make a lot of improvements and be extremely focused with the time that we do have this week.
bad breaks critical damn game good great history hung nice overcame players reasons victories victory
They hung in there in some critical situations. They overcame some real good players going out of the game for different reasons and overcame some bad breaks and some turnovers. I just told them it won't go down in history as one of the great victories in Lobo football, but it's a damn nice victory for us.
academic confident pushing retention rule school spirit
It's a retention rate, not just an academic rate. The spirit of this rule is right on. We're always pushing to get better. I don't think it's fair, but I am very confident we will be over 925 for the 2005-06 school year.
coaching compliment earned exciting five guys happened invited progress work
It's very exciting for us, as a coaching staff, to have so many guys get invited to the combine. That's never happened before and is a compliment to the work we've done here. That would have been unbelievable five years ago, but we've made a lot of progress and these guys have earned it.
people
And I don't want to learn. We're kind of an old group. We don't have too many people who do it.
against helped image jump league powers
I think it's helped our league image dramatically. I'm just really disappointed that the powers to be in the BCS didn't really jump up there and put them against Auburn or something.