How one of Alex Golesh's biggest influences impacts Auburn football
Jeff Jones coached Alex Golesh in high school. Twenty-six years later, he's part of Golesh's Auburn football staff, still giving guidance.
AUBURN — Soon after Jeff Jones arrived at Dublin Scioto High School, he noticed the kid with the red hair at the football program's offseason workouts. Soon after, Jones was driving through his neighborhood. And there was the redhead, walking down the street.
He stopped and rolled down his window. "From there though," Jones told the Montgomery Advertiser , "he and I started connecting. " The hair belonged to Alex Golesh — at the time, a 15-year-old defensive lineman for Dublin Scioto in central Ohio.
Jones was the offensive coordinator, and the neighbors hit it off. Golesh visited the Jones family porch often. Jones also drove him to football workouts.
Two years went by and the relationship deepened. Jones and his wife came to home from the hospital with a newborn son, and Golesh was there, waiting. That's when Jones knew how close this connection was.
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