San Diego State’s Hoke to retire after season

Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterNov 13, 2023, 10:33 AM ET

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• Attended Washington State University.San Diego State football coach Brady Hoke will retire at the end of the season, he announced Monday.Hoke, who remains in his second stint as the Aztecs’coach, took control of before the 2020 season after formerly having actually led the program from 2009-10. He has a combined 39-31 record over those two stints and has twice been called Mountain West coach of the year.He was also the head coach at Michigan(2011-14), Ball State(2003-08)and acted as the interim coach at Tennessee for two games in 2017. In general, he is 104-91 as a head coach. He also has actually been called coach of the year in the Big Ten(2011 )and Mid-American (2008 ). “I take pride in what we accomplished at San Diego State,” Hoke, who turned 65 on Nov. 3,

  stated in a statement.”I am grateful to all the excellent student-athletes I have actually had the possibility to work with, molding them into guys, spouses, fathers and pillars in the neighborhood. I will constantly treasure my time leading this program. I ‘d also like to thank the terrific staff I’ve worked with and want them the best in the future.”SDSU is 3-7 this season and will finish with its very first losing record– both general and in Mountain West play– given that 2009. Hoke has a 39-31 record throughout 6 seasons at the school.In 2021, Hoke led the Aztecs to a school-record 12 wins. He took control of for Rocky Long, who coached the team for the 9 seasons in between Hoke’s separate times in charge.

  In 2019, Hoke went back to SDSU as an assistant under Long. “I am really pleased for the work Brady Hoke has actually done with our football program at San Diego State both on and off the field,”SDSU athletic director John David Wicker

  said in a statement.” Brady set the standard in 2009 when he first got here on The Mesa that we now hold ourselves too. Nevertheless, it’s more than wins and losses. Brady developed a culture, led our program thru COVID, played 2 entire seasons in Carson, consisting of a 12-win project, and takes seriously the development of young men off the field along with on. “SDSU opened 35,000-seat Snapdragon Arena in 2022 and had actually been a possible target for conference growth prior to the implosion of the Pac-12. The Aztecs finish the season with games against San

  Jose State and Fresno State.