Alex Golesh will serve as offensive coordinator and tight ends coach on Josh Heupel’s staff at Tennessee.
He served as co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach for Heupel at UCF in 2020.
Golesh met with media Wednesday and discussed an uptempo offense that he and Heupel are bringing to Tennessee.
“The way we play is unique and it’s been publicized by the people that saw what we were doing at UCF,” Golesh said. “You have to start a big picture on how we play, schematically and tempo, and then start to hone in on the run game and the passing game.
“We’ve already started on the big picture and then working back down on the fine details on how we operate. Being unique, that’s where it all started. Lining up, splits, tempo, how we call things. You’re starting at ground zero because it’s so different from what the guys that have been here are used to. As we get closer to spring, we want to fine tune the fundamental technique part that we’re doing. We want to start at that big picture standpoint then break it down into smaller pieces.”
Golesh also discussed how long it would take for players to be comfortable in executing the style of play within the offense.
“Until you get out there and do it day one of spring ball, day one of March or mid-March, until you get out there and physically see it, control it, run it, I think it’s hard to simulate how fast we want to play,” he said. “You’re teaching it, explaining it and walking through it, but I think until there is wood on the fire and you’re out there with no coaches around, I think it’s really hard.
“My hope is by practice four, five or six of spring we are hitting at a high tempo, but like any scheme it doesn’t matter because it’s repetition over everything. The more reps these guys get, the better we are going to be and it’s just force-feeding their program and letting these kids make mistakes and correcting them off the film. The hope is by the middle of spring that we’re operating at a high level. We’re just going to continue coaching and it’s a process-based deal in terms of building the offense. By the time we get to August and September, we’ll be hitting on all cylinders.”
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