The team's vibrant fans - 'The Show' - are nationally recognized for their fervor. ET, have won 20 or more games for nine consecutive seasons (including this one) and they've won seven Mountain West titles since his arrival. The Aztecs, who will play at Wyoming on ESPNU at 11 p.m. Banners for SDSU's six NCAA tourney appearances now jut from the ceiling at Viejas Arena. That's significant if you're going to understand the length of Fisher's ride.

So it was tough, it was kind of a dead environment.' 'You'd come here and you'd be able to count the number of fans here on your hand,' said Brian Dutcher, an assistant on Fisher's staffs at Michigan and San Diego State. Disinterested students treated Viejas Arena like a graveyard. Back then, there was nothing but dirt atop a four-win program. It's significant compared to what the place looked like when he arrived. In June, school officials will put the first shovels in the ground on the site of a new practice facility. And then there's the other big project, one he cannot wait to be finally finished. San Diego State, at 21-1 (10-0 in the Mountain West), is the No. And even on that rare day when it's raining in paradise, which has Fisher fighting the sniffles, he can look back and see what he's accomplished and what's next for a program that has been raised from the dead. Only a higher power could draw men and women to Viejas Arena when sunbathing was clearly a better option than buying a ticket to watch the bad basketball SDSU had played for years.īut now, look at what the 68-year-old, aw-shucks coach has done at San Diego State.

Because back then, it would've taken a miracle to boost an Aztecs program that hadn't earned a trip to the NCAA tournament since 1985. That was the only way to secure the attention of a community filled with San Diego Chargers and Padres fans.

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