Evaluating Your Next Job

It’s that time of year when the coaching business is buzzing with changes and rumors, with coaches preparing resumes and working the telephones to promote, save or launch a career. Coaches are renewing old contacts, making new ones and mining every source they can find to help them make the next move. “There are two types of coaches: those who are sought after, which I’ve been, and those who are not, which I’ve been,” says veteran offensive coordinator Al Borges, whose career has taken him from California high schools to Boise State, Oregon, UCLA, Cal, Indiana and now Auburn. “For years, for three or four years in a row, I was pursued. Then when I went to Indiana and really when I came here, I was not a top candidate for either job. “That’s different. It’s hard to go in pounding your shoe on the desk saying this is what I want and this is what I demand. I’m not going