How has Steve Fisher done it?

It's simply amazing what Coach Steve Fisher plus, his staff and players, have achieved at San Diego State. It would be fascinating to read what was said by pundits (publicly) and fellow coaches (privately) about the move back then, surely along the lines of 'it's a coach killer position' and such.

Here's two snippets from a recent article:

...It’s more than dame fortune. Branch Rickey said luck is the residue of design, and that’s true, but in the case of Fisher, it’s been more than luck. It’s been hard work. Even he admits that, while expecting to succeed when he took the job, he never could have envisioned what’s happened to the program since he arrived...

and

...When you think about what the program was when he took over — it was close to being the worst in the country, if not the worst, and there was more basketball apathy on campus than there were students — he has turned San Diego’s attitude toward his sport inside-out...

Fisher and also Randy Bennett at St. Mary's -- there are two books yet to be written that would be great reads regarding how they achieved what they have done.