AUBURN — Much of Alex Golesh 's recent coaching history includes Kodi Burns . The pair overlapped as assistants at Tennessee in 2021, then Golesh hired the former Auburn football player to his South Florida coaching staff in 2025.

The former Tiger, who's now Golesh's associate head coach on the Plains, has always gushed about his alma mater.

"I've always discounted that as KB being KB," Golesh said Monday, Dec. 8. "I've been here for a week ... . But as you meet people, you talk to the players, you meet people who this is important to, which is everybody that you touch, I'm like, 'Man, KB, I'm starting to understand why it's different.'"

That has largely come from Golesh's individual meetings with Auburn 's current roster, which he has made an outspoken priority from the get-go.

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