CRUCIAL: Alex Golesh has made TWO GENIUS hires so far for Auburn football

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4.6 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Auburn Tigers face a pivotal offseason as Alex GolEsh builds his coaching staff, signaling a fresh strategy for roster development and retention. Can rising stars like Cam Coleman, Jay Crawford, and Amaris Williams anchor Auburn’s future amid projected heavy portal losses? Zac Blackerby and Darrell Dapprich debate whether continuity and low-profile hires, like keeping VonTrell King-Williams, will translate into on-field success—especially as NIL dollars reshape recruiting priorities. Key discussion points include the urgent need to retain top talent, expectations for Deuce Knight and the quarterback situation, and DeMarcus Van Dyke’s arrival as cornerbacks coach to shore up the defensive backfield. The duo highlights Auburn’s defensive improvements, ongoing portal challenges, and speculate on transfer scenarios that could redefine the Tigers’ prospects. Will Golish’s approach help Auburn thrive in a fast-moving SEC landscape?

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0:00.0	Alex Golish is slowly filling up his staff, and there's a few that I think could be
0:05.9	absolute standout.
0:12.2	You are Locked on Auburn, your daily podcast on the Auburn Tigers.
0:17.2	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:22.1	Yes, welcome on into Locked-on, Auburn, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast.
0:26.5	I'm your host, Zach Blackerbie.
0:27.9	Thank you so much for making Locked on Auburn, your first listen every single day.
0:32.0	Daryl Daffrich, Montgomery Radio Legend, hanging out with us on today's edition of the show.
0:37.9	How can we quantify the success and failures of this first full month of
0:44.5	Alex Golish?
0:45.7	We'll discuss that as well as let's set a few portal expectations.
0:50.0	What do we want to achieve early next year?
0:51.9	But he's slowly putting together his staff, Alex Golish, is.
0:55.9	And I'm going to admit a lot of the names, Darrell, aren't blowing me away.
1:01.2	And that might be a good thing.
1:03.0	But look, the first one that really stands out to me is who he's keeping on staff.
1:09.3	And yes, E.J. Durkin's getting a ton of attention, but retaining von Trell King
1:14.5	Williams to me so far is the win of these assistant coaching hires so far,
1:22.0	Darrell. And I think we kind of got to see an instant gratification of it because
1:26.4	why he did at signing day last week. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that. I'm also glad you mentioned that some of these
1:32.1	hires are under the radar. Maybe it's a different approach because the first two, the last two
1:37.0	hires, Harsson had Bobo and Derek Mason and I was over the moon thinking, man, you hit a home run.
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