SAN DIEGO — San Diego State University Head Football Coach Brady Hoke announced on Monday that he is retiring as head coach at the end of this season. He will coach the 2 remaining regular season games against San Jose St. and Fresno St. for the struggling 3-7 Aztecs.
Hoke spent 6 seasons as head coach of the team, with an overall 39-31 record. For his career, Hoke is 104-89 with stints at his alma mater Ball State from 2003-08, Michigan from 2011-14 and San Diego State both in 2009-10 and 2020-23.
Hoke was the 2011 Maxwell Football Club Collegiate Coach of the Year and four-time conference coach of the year. He is two years removed from coaching the 2021 Aztec team to a school-record 12 victories. That team, which played all 14 games away from their own market, including eight "home games" two hours from campus at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, finished the 2021 season ranked 25th in the final Associated Press Top 25 poll.
SDSU failed to gain traction in 2023, and the team finds itself dead last in the Mountain West Conference. The Aztecs have played tough, with four of the team's seven losses coming by 8 points or fewer. The other losses came from Pac-12 opponents No. 10 Oregon State, UCLA and one-time ranked conference foe Air Force.
"I am proud of what we accomplished at San Diego State," Hoke said to San Diego State University Athletics. "I am grateful to all the great student-athletes I've had the chance to work with, molding them into men, husbands, fathers and pillars in the community. I will always cherish my time leading this program. I'd also like to thank the wonderful staff I've worked with and wish them the best in the future."
Hoke started his coaching career at San Diego State in 2009 when he took over a program that hadn't had a winning season since 1998. In two seasons, Hoke would turn the Aztecs into a Mountain West powerhouse with a 9-4 record as well as defeating Navy 35-14 at the Poinsettia Bowl.
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