in the 1974–75 academic year when the titans men's tennis program became a member of the pacific coast athletic association (pcaa) they moved up to the division i large school level and also they added a new tennis coach named ron witchey a dennison university grad taking over the last part of the 1975 season taking over for short term titan coach steve warfield who himself as a collegiate tennis player was a 1970 division iii all-american from the university of redlands during his playing days. witchey was a former titan track coach from 1965 to 1972 and cross country coach. witchey quickly became a better organizer and manager of the tennis team according to their titan team captain gary quandt '75 that season. witchey installing the team to work on mental toughness, physical conditioning, and developing a positive attitude when he arrived to take over the team that season. the 1976 and 1977 season's the titans men's team added many new and formidable player's like their no. 1 singles player bob goldstein, mt. sac junior college transfer twin brothers mike duran and gil duran '79 a two-fisted forehand/backhand player, kelly davidson '77, gregg henderson, phil beilin and pete fischer '79 who all had very good results during those two years in the pcaa conference in there singles or doubles flights in the conference tournament against highly regarded opponents, the team finished third in 1976 and second in 1977 respectively in conference play. in a highlight result in the 1976 season brother's mike duran and gil duran '79 were finalists in the ojai men's independent college doubles championship/the joseph o. bixler trophy only to be defeated by jeff williams-bob wright of uc irvine. the 1979 titans were led by a conference tournament performance by dave barrows '81 who was a finalists in the number 4 flight singles that year losing to a player from a good uc irvine team, san jose state spartans won the pcaa conference team competition coming in second was uc irvine anteaters and csuf finished fifth in the conference that year.