When Griff McGuire received the offer for Head Coach at Huygens Tech, three other offers were buried under law books on his beach house table: Assistant Coach at a Tennessee high school, in an area where good players often emerged; Head Coach at an Iowa high school in a picturesque cornfield where the salary was low, but houses were affordable; Offense Coach at a Central Valley university, where the roster included NFL draft prospects, but the distance to San Francisco was 300 miles.
Until the Huygens offer, the Central Valley had been his first choice. But his hesitancy wasn't only the memory of how his Mother fared leaving Montreal for Sacramento, it was also how happy he was with life between his beach house North of Santa Cruz and Caydance's studio in San Francisco.
The Central Valley school was a clearer path to the future, but Huygens was an opportunity to put his ideas and experience into practice. And, he would be in the Bay Area, where he had contacts with former players and coaches. Also, there was the cottage on the Huygens campus where he and Caydance could spend the night when he returned late from away games.