Roger Brown
nhfootballreport.com

Matt Jozokos and Michael Drouin were teammates and roommates when both played football at Plymouth State College. Their friendship may get tested this fall.

Drouin was recently selected to replace Vincent Pettis as the varsity football coach at Sanborn High School. Sanborn's first regular-season game will be against a Kingswood team coached by Jozokos.

"I can't wait to call him and tell him I got the job," Drouin said. "It'll be nice having someone else I know out there."

Drouin spent the last two seasons as the head coach at North Shore Technical High School in Middleton, Mass. North Shore Tech finished 0-11 in 2008, but posted a 9-3 record last season.

"I felt good about where I brought that team in a short amount of time," Drouin said. "I had no intention of leaving, but when the Sanborn job opened up it was a chance to coach a new program, at a new school. I thought about all the potential that was there."

Sanborn finished 1-8 in Division IV last season, its first-year at the varsity level since the school revived its football program. Drouin said he also applied for the Sanborn job in 2006, when the school began two years of sub-varsity competition.

Drouin, 39, played at Methuen (Mass.) High School. He also served as an assistant coach at Central Catholic High School in Lawrence, Mass., and at Methuen before he accepted the varsity job at North Shore Tech.

Drouin said Sanborn will transition from a Wing-T offense to the Spread this season.

"We'll try to add a little more passing to the offense," Drouin said. "We graduated a lot of seniors. That opener should be interesting."