Up until the weekend, the Arkansas Razorbacks believed that Alex Golesh would be their head coach.

It was reported last week that Arkansas offered the job to Golesh, formerly the head coach at South Florida. But after he made it to the weekend without signing a contract, reports emerged that it appeared Golesh wouldn’t be heading to Arkansas after all.

Golesh himself even confirmed the reports of him accepting the Arkansas job were unfounded on Saturday.

“Distractions take away from the main focus of what we’re trying to do, which is win football games,” Golesh said. “I apologized. These guys, I feel, have my back and I have their backs. I apologized and it was nothing that I put out there. It wasn’t true.

“I told them that I didn’t put it out and it wasn’t true. It wasn’t true, and

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