Auburn's 'blue collar approach' to football is perfect for Alex Golesh

In college athletics, when it pertains to coaching hires, the word 'fit' comes up quite often.

Several coaches like the perfect fit. Look at Auburn, for example. When Hugh Freeze was hired after the 2022 season, most people believed he was a fit at Auburn. The coach before him, Bryan Harsin, on the other hand, was not a fit for the program due to his unfamiliarity with the Southeast. However, neither coach had substantial success with the Tigers. The question is generally always centered on whether the coach fits the school.

The question is rarely asked, though, if the school fits the coach. For Alex Golesh, he feels Auburn fits him. On Wednesday, Golesh appeared on The Locker Room at 680 The Fan in Atlanta, where he talked about this subject.

"I can tell you six months in, this Auburn job fits me, and I thought that taking it," said Golesh. He added that the blue-collar approach to football is a big reason why, because that is what Auburn football was built on.

That approach is evident in the journey that Golesh took to get to this point in his career. He worked his way up the ranks, serving as a defensive line coach at Westerville Central High School in Ohio before becoming a student assistant at Ohio State. Before working at Toledo, Illinois, and Iowa State as a position coach and recruiting coordinator, he served as a graduate assistant at Northern Illinois and Oklahoma State. His coaching career took a positive turn when he worked with Josh Heupel at UCF and before becoming the head coach at .