This is an opinion column.

Well done, John Cohen.

The Auburn athletics director threw all the pressure on his shoulders to make a critical football coaching hire.

And, by all indications, he’s delivered.

Alex Golesh is the man tapped to revive an Auburn football program lost in Siberia -- fitting since the coaching up-and-comer was born in Moscow.

That Moscow.

But now he’s the right guy to fix the mess made by the last two mistakes that led Auburn to the pine barrens of the SEC.

The South Florida coach has all the right boxes for an Auburn AD who weathered a historic coaching change blizzard with impressive skill. If his friend and rival Greg Byrne is known as “The Ninja” for his quiet hiring moves, Cohen’s just joined the dojo.

While everyone was distracted by Lane Kiffin’s no

See Full Page