USD Football 2007

mike RISH Assistant Coach 24th Year Senior Offensive Asst.

jimmie GHERTi¥

Assistant Coach 4th Year Passing Game Coordinator Quarterback Coach

Mike Rish is beginning his 24tl1 season on the Torero staff where he will again be Senior O ffensive Assistant. He returns to coach the receivers, something he has done for twenty-two of the past twenty-three Torero sea– sons. Mike played for USD from 1979-83 where he posted career numbers that make him one of the best receivers ever to play at USD -- 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 D ylan Ching. In 1983 he was selected the team's scholar-athlete by the ational Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. In the Toreros' nationally-tele– vised game between Occidental in 1982, Rish was named the CBS Chevrolet Player of the Game. Mike graduated from USD with an Accounting degree in 1984. He is the Vice President for Secondary Marketing for Guild Mortgage Company in San Diego.

Jimmie Dougherty returns in 2007 for his fourth season coaching at the University of San Diego. This season he will once again coach the quarterbacks as he did in 2006 as well as coordinate the passing game. He came to USD in 2004 and coached an outstanding wide receiver corp. That receiving group included All-American and team MVP Michael Gasperson as a senior, and Adam Hannula who went on to rewrite the school record book for career numbers the following season as a senior. Gasperson led the team with 54 catches for 894 yards with 7 TD's that season. Gasperson was signed after the season as a free agent by the Philadelphia Eagles and also was allocated to FL Europe to play for the Cologne Centurions. The following season Dougherty showed his versatility and coached the tight ends. This group was led by senior Matt Koller who went on to earn All Pioneer Football League Conference honors that year. Last season Dougherty moved to coach the quarterbacks, the position that he played in college. He fl ourished in furthering the development of current USD quarterbackJosh Johnson.Johnson led the nation last season in total of– fense, passing yardage, passing effi ciency and points responsible for under his

tutelage. AU-in-all, Johnson accounted for 4,040 yards of total offense in 2006 while thtowing 34 touchdowns and only 5 interceptions. Johnson was voted to the AP 3rd Team All- America squad and finished 6th in voting for the Payton Award. He returns for his fi nal season at USD poised to break vir tually every record in the USD record books. He needs just 6 TD passes and 777 pass– ing yards to surpass E ric Rasmussen fo r career numbers in those categories. Most importantly, Johnson will look to improve upon his career record as a starter at USD which now stands at 22-2. Prior to USD, Dougherty was a graduate assistant at Illinois Wesleyan niversity in Bloomington, Illinois from 2002-2004.During his years there, he was the defensive backs coach. He earned his masters from Illinois State during that time in Sport Manage–

tanner liNGS:ERA

Assistant Coach 3rd Year Running Backs

Tanner Engstrand enters his third season with the Torero football team, and his first as the running backs coach. Last season he 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. E ngstrand was a two-year letterman at San Diego State University (2003-2004) where he played quarterback. He saw limited action in his two sea– sons, serving mainly 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 currentlyenrolled at USD where he is working on his Master's degree in Business Administration

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Dougherty played quarterback at the University of Missouri from 1997- 2001 . He was a three year letter winner from 99-01. He started as a sophomore, throwing for over 1,400 yards and 7 TD's. His career was cut short as a junior when he suffered a ligament tear in his throwing elbow. Dougherty was a former All State performer at Edwardsville High School in football and basketball. He played for his father, Tim Dougherty, at Edwardsville High School where his father is still the head football coach.