Front Row Seat: SDSU & Sean Lewis discussing contract extension
The Aztecs don't want to lose their head football coach when the coaching carousel starts up.
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Darren Smith
San Diego State Aztecs
SDSU AD wants to keep coach Sean Lewis ‘as long as we possibly can’ - San Diego Union-Tribune
After this season, Lewis will have three years remaining on his five-year contract. Given the turnaround in the program this season, the subject of an extension has been broached.
“We’ve met,” Wicker said. “Just chatted about all the things that are going on in the world of college football right now. So we feel like we’re at a good, comfortable place right now.”
San Diego State football and Hawaii by the numbers - Sports Illustrated
While the teams are fairly evenly matched offensively, SDSU has the MW’s best defense, by far, holding teams to just 10 points per game. The Aztecs had four takeaways, including three interceptions, in beating Wyoming. Hawaii, meanwhile, lost a shootout at San Jose State, 45-38.
Aztecs linebacker Tano Letuli lost for season with knee injury - San Diego Union-Tribune
Letuli tore his right ACL in the first quarter of SDSU’s 24-7 win over Wyoming. He ranks fifth on the team in tackles with 30 despite missing most of the Wyoming game as well as two other games with an upper-body injury. Letuli returned to the lineup two weeks after that injury and had a 31-yard interception return for a touchdown to cap a shutout win at Fresno State.
3 thoughts: SDSU 77, Long Beach State 45 … Latrell Davis, the fast break and the Mountain Worst - San Diego Union-Tribune
Two days into the season, two beyond brutal losses for the Mountain West.
It’s not exactly what the conference had in mind for the final season before five members — four of which reached the NCAA Tournament last spring — defect to the reformed Pac-12.
On Monday, Boise State lost 79-78 at home against Hawaii Pacific, a Division II school with its campus in a former strip mall.
“A painful lesson and a painful pill to swallow on the first night,” Broncos coach Leon Rice said.
On Tuesday, UNLV lost 86-81 at home against Tennessee-Martin, which entered the night No. 328 in the Kenpom metric.
“I want to apologize to the fan base for that opener,” said new coach Josh Pastner, who been relentlessly promoting the program all summer. “I feel sick to my stomach.”
