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Tuesday, January 25, 2010

Vol. 96, Issue 61

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Students show early for tickets

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New head coach filling out staff Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. Long has also hired four more assistants. A S S I S TA N T S P O R T S E D I T O R The new coaches for next season will be Jeff Horton (assistant head coach and running backs coach), Danny Gonzalez (safeties), Newly anointed football head coach Rocky Kevin McGarry (linebackers) and Osia Lewis Long has started to restock the coaching cup- (defensive line). board after former head coach Brady Hoke Last Thursday, Long named the University poached several assistants and took them of Toledo’s Rick Court as the new strength along with him to Michigan. and conditioning coach, replacing the departEarly yesterday morning, a source close to ed Aaron Wellman. Wellman was considered the situation said Cal offenby many to be a vital composive coordinator Andy nent in the football pro“I’m excited to Ludwig would be named to gram’s two-year turnaround. the same position at San Long also announced last keep LeCharls, Diego State. Ludwig spent week the retention of three the past two seasons as Cal’s assistant coaches from Brian and Tony offensive coordinator, followHoke’s staff. Quarterbacks ... (They) will ing stints at Utah, Oregon coach Brian Sipe, wide and Fresno State. He runs a receivers coach LeCharls help us keep pro-style offense, which is the McDaniel and cornerbacks scheme former offensive coach Tony White will all continuity as we coordinator Al Borges ran the stay on the Mesa. past two years at SDSU. “I am excited to keep move forward.” Ludwig has been coachLeCharls, Brian and Tony,” ing in the college ranks since — Rocky Long, Long said in a statement 1987, when he was wide SDSU football head coach released by SDSU. “All three receivers coach at Portland of these coaches were instruState. He led the Golden mental in the progress we Bears to a Poinsettia Bowl berth in 2009 and have made the last two years and will help us in 2008 he helped Utah to an undefeated 13- keep continuity as we move forward. They will 0 record, a No. 2 national ranking in the do a great job developing our student-athAssociated Press poll and a victory against letes, on and off the field.”

AGUSTIN GONZALEZ

Courtesy of SDSU Media Relations

Students arrived as early as 4:30 a.m. yesterday to grab tickets for Saturday’s men’s basketball game.

As No. 4 SDSU climbs up the polls, more and more students demand tickets EDWARD LEWIS SPORTS EDITOR

Two students with perplexed looks plastered to their faces strolled up to the Viejas Arena box office yesterday afternoon at around 1 p.m. “Sold out?” one of them said out loud as he read the big, bold, black and white sign. “For Wyoming?!” The two couldn’t believe it. But that’s the way San Diego State is nowadays. SDSU has the No. 4-ranked basketball team in the nation. It is 20-0. And it’s also the hottest ticket in town. “I heard the line wrapped all the way around the ARC,” senior guard D.J. Gay said. “That’s amazing. That’s really crazy to think about. It just goes to show how many people we do have behind us.” The line of students began at 4:30 a.m., a ticket office official said yesterday. By 7:30 a.m., when the ticket office officially opened, there were more than 1,000 students waiting in line to snag their free tickets. By 9:15 a.m., the school had sold out its

allotment of about 2,500 student tickets, the official said. “It’s just amazing that all the hard work is paying off and people want to come watch us play,” senior forward Malcolm Thomas said. “It’s just crazy to me.” It’s especially crazy because these tickets were for Saturday’s game against Wyoming, a team boasting an 8-11 overall record and an abysmal 1-4 record in Mountain West Conference play. The last two times the Cowboys came to Viejas Arena, a combined 13,034 people showed up for the two matches. On Saturday, 12,414 people will be in attendance. “We appreciate all the involvement and belief from our students,” head coach Steve Fisher said. Journalism senior Beau Bearden, also known as “Geckshow,” the gecko in the front row of SDSU’s highly touted student section, said yesterday’s line and immediate sellout are just a glimpse of the craziness that could happen for future games. “I was hearing people talking about how they’re going to come at noon on Sunday,” Bearden said of the day before tickets go on sale for games such as BYU next month. “Which is crazy.” The Aztecs will take on No. 9 BYU at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah.

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