OT: Borges doing his thing @ SJSU, dropped 70 lbs

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Al Borges says he's lost 70-plus pounds. He's got jokez, too. "It's like tossing a lawn chair off the Titanic."

— Brandon Marcello (@bmarcello) September 30, 2015

Article about his return to his old stomping grounds, this weekend at Auburn.

 

 

 

Eight years removed from his final season at Auburn, Borges returns as the enemy coordinating San Jose State's offense. He's a changed man, too. He's traversed the California highways at two jobs and coached on the sidelines of Michigan. "I learned a lot of stuff about myself, but I've learned even more about the greatest game ever invented, and what might be the worst business ever invented," said Borges, who was fired at Michigan following the 2013 season.

getsome

October 2nd, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^

same here, good for him shedding a few lbs.  

im guessing (and hoping) he made that comment in jest bc "the worst business ever created" has made him millions of dollars - several hundred thousand of which he did not even remotely earn at michigan.  

good dude by all accounts but a schizo OC.  not that i wont be rooting for him to somehow grab the W at auburn

Tater

October 2nd, 2015 at 7:54 PM ^

During Hoke's tenure, no matter who was taking the blame, David Brandon was the de facto OC.  Just like RR gets an "incomplete" at Michgan due to his "sample" being cut off just as he was going to become hugely successful, Borges and Nussmeier get a grade of "incomplete" due to lack of a sufficient sample size.

 

Commie_High96

October 2nd, 2015 at 8:39 PM ^

Wait a bit. There is no one on this board who hate Dave Brandon as much as me, he fired no less than 3 people who are my friends going back to his first year on the job. That said, Dave Brandon did not make Al Borges put Denard under center, Al Borges decided to take his Ferrari to a tractor pull and wonder why he had to give up his game plan at half time and let Denard try to save everyone's ass. Again, I hate Dave Brandon on so many levels, I hate the people he hangs out with and I hate what he did to UM, but Borges owns his own lousy record.

ijohnb

October 2nd, 2015 at 2:17 PM ^

want to know why he hated the bubble screen with such fury.  Perhaps be had a perfectly good and rational reason for it but he never went on record with it.  We just want to know Al.

Yeoman

October 2nd, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^

How would Rodriguez have responded if at every press conference somebody was asking him why he doesn't line up with a fullback and a couple of tight ends and run some power? Or run some of that West Coast stuff?

Hopefully he'd have shown the same humor that Borges did.

 

ijohnb

October 2nd, 2015 at 3:29 PM ^

did do that, he just waited until the three most important plays of every season to run it and ran it with Carlos Brown.  And the Rodriguez contrast does not work.  There was nothing about what Borges ran(essentially a grab bag of different offensive philosophies) that was constitutionally incompatible with the bubble screen.  I get that he wanted to get vertical but there is something called taking what the defense gives you.

He did hate the bubble screen.  Teams gave it to us, all game, every game, and he didn't take it despite the invitation and a complete inability to run the ball.  He instead opted for the "tunnel screen" with involves like six more moving parts, hardly ever gets completed, and usually went for like 4 yards when it did.

GoBlueinEugene

October 2nd, 2015 at 2:32 PM ^

I was watching the SJSU-Fresno State game last week. I was like, the caption on TV says this guy is Al Borges, but he's not... um... how can I say this... large enough...

Good on him though. 

LSAClassOf2000

October 2nd, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^

I tuned in for a little of it, and it honestly took me a moment to hone in on Borges because he looked that different and noticeably thinner. It's definitely not easy as you get older - my father embarked on the weight-loss crusade in his 60s finally and lost about 80 lbs - but it is doable if you're dedicated to it and kudos to Borges for it.