Rocky Long
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"Roderick John "Rocky" Long Jr." is the head coach of the San Diego State Aztecs college football team, and was promoted on January 12, 2011 from defensive coordinator to replace Brady Hoke. Long was previously the head coach at the University of New Mexico, having resigned that position in November 2008. Long is also a former Canadian Football League (BC Lions) and World Football League (Detroit Wheels) player.

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The defense continues to improve, and we're seeing some guys start to step up. I'm just not confident when it comes to stopping the spread offense. It's a really tough offense to deal with no matter who runs it.

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.

Chris still has some work to do with the team, but he has taken responsibility for his actions and will be traveling with us.

Brad Smith is about as dangerous quarterback as you can get running the spread offense.

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.

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.

We're at the mercy of TV. You want to be on TV.

Nobody has seen it enough yet to get a real good handle on how to stop it. As long as it's going to be effective, people are going to run it. We haven't stopped it yet, so we're still in the process of trying to learn how.

He is a difficult assignment especially because of the way they can throw and run the ball. You don't stop those kinds of guys, you just hope to control them enough to give you a chance to win.