{"id":1183892,"date":"2026-01-30T06:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1183892"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:43:30","slug":"golesh-on-portal-tampering-the-football-gods-will-find-you-at-some-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/golesh-on-portal-tampering-the-football-gods-will-find-you-at-some-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Golesh on Portal Tampering: ‘The Football Gods Will Find You at Some Point’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Auburn head coach\u00a0Alex Golesh\u00a0is going through his first offseason on The Plains and he has some choice words to say about it.<\/p>\n

Now, Golesh \u2014 and any head coach just starting out at the highest level \u2014 faces additional challenges unique to today\u2019s day and age.<\/p>\n

Just about every coach in America is dealing with \u201ctampering,\u201d meaning opposing coaches calling players on their roster to entice them to enter the portal with huge offers.<\/p>\n

While technically illegal, the NCAA has no ability to enforce rules anymore in this Wild West landscape, and coaches do anything to gain an advantage.<\/p>\n

During Senior Bowl week in Mobile<\/a>, Golesh talked about the impact of tampering and how he avoids getting worked up over other coaches breaking the rules.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s been going on for a really long time, the portal era has only amplified it,\u201d Golesh began. \u201cThere eventually needs to be guardrails on this thing, I think we all want to know the rules you can operate in, the truth is right now, there aren\u2019t any. So you operate ethically with what you feel like is right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it right to call a kid that\u2019s on somebody else\u2019s roster to go get him? It\u2019s not. I think, in a lot of ways, what goes around comes around. In the fall you gotta go line up and play. I\u2019m a strong believer in the football gods will find you at some point and generally they\u2019ll find you at the end of a game or they\u2019ll find you on fourth and one and I think you gotta do things the right way, and the right way is doing right by the young people.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added how real the pressure to win is and that he won\u2019t judge other coaches for how they do it, but it seems clear that Golesh is going to run his program his way.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, Auburn has a special coach at the helm in Golesh, and\u00a0he is going to try to get the Tigers back to prominence while doing things his own way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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