OT: Borges doing his thing @ SJSU, dropped 70 lbs
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.
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:11 PM ^
Didn't care for Al as an OC, but props to him for taking care of his health and losing weight.
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:41 PM ^
Congrats on the weight loss, and a few more pounds and he will truly live up to the name of Gorgeous Borges!
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
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.
October 2nd, 2015 at 8:00 PM ^
RR hasn't been hugely successful anywhere.
October 3rd, 2015 at 12:03 AM ^
Defense and special teams.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:16 AM ^
He was a big success at WVU, there's no reason to deny that. But whether he could have sustained it long-term is up for debate though.
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.
October 2nd, 2015 at 11:26 PM ^
You framed that post like you are talking to someone capable of rational discussion. Interesting approach.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:21 AM ^
We don't know how much autonomy Borges had. It's hard to say how much of the offense was him and how much was Hoke. (Some have even speculated that Brandon was involved. I'd love to hear Bacon's thoughts on that.)
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
About to drop the sickest mixtape of 2015.
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
Congrats to him. I've lost 60 pounds since 2012 so I can relate. I've kept it off too, which is just as tough.
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
A good friend of mine lost 100 lbs. but eventually put most of it back on. So congratulations to you - it is very difficult indeed.
October 2nd, 2015 at 3:07 PM ^
Running around in Vault 109 and wearing all that power armor sure helps burn the calories.
Where you on a strict diet of Dandy Boy Apples and irradiated banana yucca?
October 2nd, 2015 at 3:38 PM ^
No, it was Fancy Lads Snack Cakes & Sunset Sarsaparilla's.
October 2nd, 2015 at 4:00 PM ^
calories, or you'll end up looking like Dean Domino!
October 2nd, 2015 at 4:03 PM ^
Gary? . . . . GARY!
October 2nd, 2015 at 4:54 PM ^
a cool place
October 3rd, 2015 at 8:20 AM ^
I love those fancy lads, would you like to buy a monkey?
October 2nd, 2015 at 3:30 PM ^
10 years ago. Didn't look too bad, but the weight had to go. I've never even been tempted to remarry.
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:14 PM ^
That picture would be perfect if he went straight brim
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^
I figured he finally hired his dad to be his personal traineer
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:15 PM ^
He was better than Nuss, at least here, but I'll never forgive him for fucking up the 2 point conversion at the end of the 2013 OSU game.
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:21 PM ^
Especially since he pulled off a perfect 2 point conversion in the Kansas state game after.
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October 2nd, 2015 at 2:36 PM ^
Yeah but he had, like, over a month to prepare for that KSU 2-pointer.
October 2nd, 2015 at 4:47 PM ^
did I fall asleep or something?
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:28 PM ^
got eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem!
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:34 PM ^
OH NO, MY POINTS, OH NO HAHAHAHAHA
Fing loser...
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:15 PM ^
Good for him dropping all that weight. Probably one of the best things he can do for his health. Hopefully he continues that trend.
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October 2nd, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
Good on him. And a solid fat joke about himself to boot.
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.
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.
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.
October 2nd, 2015 at 4:18 PM ^
He did go on th record, though, in the interview with Heiko. Heiko asked, he answered.
October 3rd, 2015 at 8:42 AM ^
I want to know why he couldn't bring himself to adapt to anything
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:37 PM ^
i am a knight....'
oh man, the old life.
October 2nd, 2015 at 3:05 PM ^
night. as in nightmare walking, psychopath talkin
October 2nd, 2015 at 4:23 PM ^
king of the jungle, just a gangster stalkin
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:22 PM ^
That SJSU staff is teeming with Michigan ex-pats, from Borges to Greg Robinson to Adam Stenavich.
October 2nd, 2015 at 7:28 PM ^
The fact that a number of our ex-coaches are at San Jose State reinforces how bad the coaching had been here for the last 7 years
October 3rd, 2015 at 8:45 AM ^
Sometime, in my nightmares, both Borges and GERG return to UM to be co-head coach and coordinators.
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
Ima bout to drop some cash on a girl with a double wide caboose tonight.
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October 2nd, 2015 at 3:25 PM ^
"Ima bout to drop some cash on a girl" . . . that's your first problem.
October 2nd, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
Wish I could lose about 40 lbs. I wonder if he did it the old fashion way because he probably has the money to do it surgically.
October 2nd, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^
and the flu. 40 lbs though. amputation is the quickest way.
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.
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.