Casagrande: Auburn AD quietly nails hiring of Alex Golesh, Alabama tormenter – al.com
Skip to Article Auburn Football The Auburn athletics director threw all the pressure on his shoulders to make a critical football coaching hire. Alex Golesh is the man tapped to revive an Auburn football program lost in Siberia — fitting since the coaching up-and-comer was born in Moscow. But now he’s the right guy to fix the mess made by the last two mistakes that led Auburn to the pine barrens of the SEC. The South Florida coach has all the right boxes for an Auburn AD who weathered a historic coaching change blizzard with impressive skill. If his friend and rival Greg Byrne is known as “The Ninja” for his quiet hiring moves, Cohen’s just joined the dojo. While everyone was distracted by Lane Kiffin’s nonsense in Oxford, Cohen made his hire without much fanfare. Tulane’s Jon Sumrall was the leading name for most of this month-long search, so the news Saturday of his impending hire at Florida likely created some angst in Auburn.
Published: November 30, 2025 5:41 pm
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