San Diego State is deep, old and talented, but can it handle the enormous expectations?
. The top nine players are all juniors or seniors. Mensah and Aguek Arop have been in the program for five years, Adam Seiko for six. Even the scout team is stocked with seniors.against NAIA San Diego Christian last Tuesday, “but as Coach Dutch always tells us, our biggest opponent is ourselves. I would like to just compare us to ourselves. 30-2, that’s a miracle team. Hopefully we can be that miracle team but we’re going to be only as good as we allow our own selves to be.
to get stops, when human nature says you can relax at the defensive end because you’ll merely outscore your opponent? The statistics bear that out. Over the last two seasons, teams in the top 10 in defense ranked an average of 91 and 93 on offense. Purdue was No. 2 in offense last season … and 93Asked what concerned him most from the SDCC exhibition, Dutcher didn’t mince words: “We don’t look like the No. 2 defensive team in the country, which we were last year and we have four starters back.
“That’s why you tell them, ‘I’m going to play the better defender,’” Dutcher said. “That always gets their mind tilting toward the defensive end. I know we’re going to score the ball. There are going to be days it doesn’t go in. But on the days it doesn’t go in, we’re one of five or 10 teams in the country that can still win because our defense is good enough.
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