USD Football 2008

Tanner Engstrand enters his fourth season with the Torero football team, and his second as the running backs coach. Additionally, he has been promoted to Director of Football Operations. Last season the Toreros running attack was sol– id with junior JT Rogan leading the way with 1,021 yards and 10 touchdowns. All told, the USO ground game aver– aged 185.8 yards of rushing per game. In 2006 Tanner was an offensive assistant for the 11 -1 Toreros that ranked first in the nation in total offense and scoring. The past two seasons he worked with football operations where he helped with all equipment duties and daily football operations. Engstrand was a two-year letterman at San Diego Dale Lindsey joins the USO staff where he will be the team's linebackers coach. Lindsey brings a wealth of football expe– rience as a former NFL player and coach. Lindsey's resume includes over30yearsoffootball coaching at the high school, college and professional ranks.Most recently with the Wash– ingotn Redskins (2004-2006), Lindsey also spent time on the San Diego Chargers staff as defensive coordinator (2002-03) and linebackers coach (1992-96). From 1992-96, Lindsey was the linebackers coach on the Chargers' defensive staff that helped guide the team to two AFC West titles (1992 and '94), three playoff appear– ances (1992,'94 and '95) and one AFC Championship (1994). Lindsey played at both linebacker and fullback two years at

State University (2003-2004) where he played quarterback. He saw limited action in his two seasons, serving main– ly as a backup. Before enrolling at SDSU he was a First Team All-Foothill Conference and Academic All-America quarterback at Grossmont College in El Cajon, California during the 2002 season. He is currently enrolled at USO where he is working on his Master's degree in Business Administration.

Western Kentucky, helping the 1963 Hilltoppers to a 10-0-1 mark and the championship of the Tangerine Bowl. Overall, the two Topper teams (1963-64) he played on went 16-3-2.A two-time AII-OVC pick, he earned All-America honors as a linebacker in 1964 and was named to the All-Time OVC Team in 1988. A Bowling Green High product, he was drafted by Cleveland of the National Football League (in the seventh round) and by the New York Jets of the American Football League (sixth round) in 1965 and went on to play nine seasons at linebacker for the Cleveland Browns (1965-73). This past April Dale was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in Louisville, Kentucky. Dale and his wife Eva, make their home in the San Diego area. They have five children - Blan, Jennifer, Kim, Johnny and Derek.

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Mike Rish is beginning his 25th season on the Torero staff where he will again be Senior Offensive Assistant. He re– turns to help coach the receivers, something he has done for twenty-three of the past twenty-four Torero seasons. Last season USO receivers accounted for 3,270 yards and 48 touchdown receptions.Junior John Matthews set a newTo– rero mark with 16 touchdown receptions, while senior Wes Doyle tied the school mark of 73 receptions in a season. Mike played for USO from 1979-83 where he posted career numbers that make him one of the best receivers ever to play at USO -- he ranks second all-time with 101 receptions, 18 receiving touchdowns and 1,722 receiving yards. He held the school marks in all three career receiving

departments from 1983 through 1997; he was passed by Torero receiver Dylan Ching. · In 1983 he was selected the team's scholar-athlete by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. In the Toreros' nationally-televised game between Occidental in 1982, Rish was named the CBS Chevrolet Player of the Game. Mike graduated from USO with an Accounting degree in 1984.He is the Vice President for Secondary Market– ing for Guild Mortgage Company in San Diego.