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Article: San Diego State back in the thick of things.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2002
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Byline: Mark Whicker
SAN DIEGO _ It is unfortunate but true that San Diego State's most famous basketball player was a baseball player. And when yet another Aztecs coach fell out of the chair in the spring of `99, Tony Gwynn volunteered.
The Aztecs had done worse. Since they went Division I in 1969-70, only one coach, Tim Vezie, got away with a winning record. Until they went 14-14 in `01, they had suffered 15 consecutive losing seasons.
This is where Jim Brandenburg's coaching resume went splat; where Jerry Tarkanian and Gene Keady and Rick Majerus were supposed to parachute in, with supplies and glory, and didn't; where high promise had ...