WOW: College Football Expert LOVES Alex Golesh at Auburn

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4.6 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Auburn Tigers shake up college football with the bold hiring of Alex Golesh as head coach, sparking optimism and debate across the national media. Can Golesh’s fiery leadership and proven winner’s mentality reshape Auburn’s culture and deliver the edge needed to compete with SEC powerhouses like Georgia, Alabama, and LSU? Zac Blackerby and Jake Crain break down how Golesh’s outside-the-box approach and hands-on style could reinvigorate a program hungry for success. Key topics include the crucial decision to retain DJ Durkin as defensive coordinator, the quarterback battle featuring Deuce Knight, Ashton Daniels, and potential transfer Byron Brown, and the impact of a strong Signing Day haul highlighted by Cam Coleman and Malcolm Simmons. The conversation explores roster talent, tough personnel decisions ahead, and why accountability and culture may finally end Auburn’s losing ways. Don’t miss this inside look at Auburn Tigers football’s pivotal turning point.

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0:00.0	The national media continues to be high on Auburn hiring Alex Golish.
0:10.7	You are Locked on Auburn, your daily podcast on the Auburn Tigers.
0:15.8	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:20.9	Yes, welcome on into Locked on Auburn, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast.
0:25.6	I'm your host, Zach Blackerman.
0:26.6	Thank you so much for making Locked on Auburn, your first listen every single day.
0:31.3	Jake Crane of Crane and Company hanging out with us on today's edition of the show.
0:35.8	What do we want to see from Golish as off season?
0:38.2	How would we handle the quarterback situation that coming up?
0:41.0	But all in all, Jake, I was really pleased with the higher.
0:45.0	The more I learn about Alex Golish, the more I really like the fit with what he's done
0:50.4	as a coordinator in the SEC and then what he did as a head coach at south florida
0:54.2	your biggest takeaway from alex golish so far is what killer like it's that's who this guy is
1:05.0	that's who summer all is too to be honest with if you if you look at their personalities
1:08.8	that there's actually a lot of similarities if you hear personalities that there's actually a lot of similarities
1:11.2	if you hear them talk there's actually a lot of similarities in the things yeah that they say you know
1:15.4	i was fortunate enough when i was in iowa coaching to we clinic with iowa state and golish was there
1:19.7	and joe houston was the special teams guy at the time and i was sitting down with joe talking and
1:23.8	alex was just hanging out right there and man i mean I mean, he talked, we talked 30, 45 minutes.
1:28.7	Just, you know, great conversation. Good dude would give you that he didn't have to give me the time of day. And he did. But, you know, what I like, I think a lot of it is personality, especially if you're not going to be the one that is calling the plays. The head coach, it has to set the culture anyway. Even, you know, Sark sets the
1:44.4	culture at Texas. Lincoln sets the culture at USC. But, you know, I think Golish is the perfect
1:50.5	mix of the hands-on guy, but also understands the CEO approach to let his coach as coach. So the
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