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New Auburn Head Coach Alex Golesh Joins The Next Round

The Next Round

The Next Round

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4.9890 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Auburn Football Head Coach Alex Golesh joins The Next Round to break down his vision for the Tigers and what Auburn fans can expect as a new era begins on The Plains. We cover everything Auburn fans want to know: 🏈 Why Alex Golesh chose Auburn over other coaching opportunities 🧡 His recruiting philosophy — is high school recruiting or the transfer portal the bigger priority in today’s college football landscape? 👀 The challenge of evaluating Auburn’s quarterback room with limited game film 📅 Thoughts on future scheduling and building a sustainable program Golesh’s Russian upbringing and how it shaped the coach he is today …plus much more Auburn football insight! Whether you’re looking for updates on Auburn recruiting, roster evaluation, coaching strategy, or the direction of the Tigers under Golesh, this interview has it all. 👉 Auburn fans — make sure to LIKE this video, COMMENT with your thoughts on Coach Golesh, and SUBSCRIBE to The Next Round YouTube channel for more Auburn football interviews, analysis, and breaking news all season long! #AuburnFootball #WarEagle #AuburnTigers #Auburn #SECFootball #CollegeFootball #CFB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All right, it is our first opportunity to catch up with the brand new Auburn Head football coach,

0:35.4

Alex Golish. He's going to get most of the show today

0:37.8

coach I'm Ryan that's Lance Jim under for unfortunately is under the weather pleasure to meet you over

0:42.1

Zoom and I hope your first week and a half in our fine state has been enjoyable yeah it's been

0:48.1

incredible I haven't and I appreciate y'all having me on I haven't haven't done a whole lot outside

0:53.1

of the building but certainly in here it's it been awesome. We feel like we've gotten a bunch done. I feel like we got so much to do, but it's it's been awesome. Well, I mean, let's start there. You were a respected assistant coach. You took over a program that was going nowhere fast in Tampa you turned it around

1:11.4

very quickly you you're an innovative offensive guy you're young you got a lot going for you i'm sure

1:16.2

a lot of programs kicked your tires what made Auburn stand out and be the one where you said okay

1:20.7

that's the one i'll go to yeah you know it it was an interesting process because it traditionally used to be, man, you'd get done with your season, and then you kind of figure out what the heck is going on and you got time.

1:36.3

The way the calendar is now and the way college football has evolved, you have to think of things as you're going.

1:45.0

And I'm so, so process driven.

1:47.0

I'm so focused on what the heck's going on.

1:50.0

It was hard to even think about anything else other than the program I was running.

1:56.0

But as we sat down really after our last game and tried to lay it all out, and you really,

2:03.0

you've got a matter of hours to try to figure it out.

2:05.9

And you're making life decisions, not just for yourself, but for 70 whatever people work

2:11.4

with you and a program that you've poured literally every single bit of your life into that you're trying to

2:21.0

figure out, is this the right time to walk away? Is this the right time to make a move? And for us,

2:26.4

it was going to take a unique opportunity and a unique opportunity that one is aligned

2:33.6

from the top to the bottom and beyond even the alignment, an opportunity

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