Borges to San Diego?

[PDL]

Borges won't bail unless deal fail-safe. Auburn assistant will only leave for 'heck of a good job'.

Someone offer him the FSU job, quick!

 

[Crimson Hawk]

Low expectations.
Room to improve.
Sounds ideal for a first head coaching position.

Add in the fact that they love AB's type of O, (SDSU is about as "west coast" as you can get) & I agree it would be a good first HC job.

 

[BocaLance]

Come on, Al ...

Forget San Diego. Give Detroit a try.
The Lions NEEEEED you, man!

 

[TommyMac]

He might be turned off by those butt-ugly black uni's.

 

[Alanbama27]

Two things are in favor of him taking the job if offered at SDSU. First, he's a native Californian and there won't be many other California jobs available anytime soon, so if he's interested in moving back home...now's his chance. Second, even if Tubby were allowed to offer him a big pay check as a coordinator, SDSU can easily beat it with a head coaching offer over the $1M mark. At best he'll earn $500K at Auburn and that would be a HUGE raise and salary for any coordinator. Of course, living in San Diego is unbelievably expensive so it will take all of the $1M and more to make up for the cost of living adjustment. Nevertheless, I believe he'll leave "if" offered.

 

[cbi1972]

First, he's a native Californian and there won't be many other California jobs available anytime soon, so if he's interested in moving back home...now's his chance.

San Diego is about 450 miles from his home of Salinas, which is about as far as it is from Auburn to Lexington, Kentucky. It is really nice, though

 

[alatider]

On the local TV news last night, he stated that he was not interested in SD State. He indicated that he wanted a "higher class" school.

 

[Proxigean Tide]

It wouldn't surprise me if Al had already been contacted by some "higher class" schools, hence the lack of interest in SDSU.

A blind man could recognize the impact Borges had at Auburn taking a habitually disfunctional offense to tops in most categories in the SEC.

His stock as an offensive coordinator has no place to go but down and with it his attractiveness as a head coaching prospect.

I don't know what HC jobs will come open in the next couple of weeks, but as many don't appear until after the replacement has been approached, interviewed and has accepted, it wouldn't be surprising to learn Al Borges has been contacted by a big school. RTR.

 

[rolltideas]

I think it is truly sad to be begging a BARNER assistant coach to leave in order for Bama's fortune to change against the Cow College.

Very, very, sad.

 

[CrimsonCrazy82]

Good now everyone can see Tubby is not the reason for Auburns good fortune lately

 

[Proxigean Tide]

rolltideas

Bama will reassert itself against Auburn regardless of what Borges does or doesn't do.

Auburn's assendancy was based on temporary recruiting success born of Bama's probation and associated uncertainty. However, it took Borges to make Auburn's offense gel and as a Bama fan, I take a bit of joy in knowing Tubby is in the process of losing both his offensive braintrust and his recruiting advantage in the same year.

I don't have anything against Auburn people until they start losing their collective mind and start spouting utterly ridiculous ideas like "We are the preiminent program in the state and it will be that way from now on".

Personally, I think Tubbs is a fair defensive coordinator, but only an average head coach. Although the same one-sideness could be argued with respect to Shula and the offensive side of the ball, Shula doesn't pretend he is calling the defense.

I just like to see Tubby self-destruct when he doesn't have someone running his offensive game. As such, I am interested in seeing what happens to Borges. RTR.