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WRITER’S NOTE: “Tiger Talk” is the weekly radio show that features football coach Alex Golesh during football season. Back when Tommy Tuberville was the Tigers’ head coach, I would do tongue-in-cheek reviews of these shows because the shows were funny and questions from the phone (or in person) made it entertaining. It’s generally less entertaining now, but the show nonetheless gives Golesh — a remarkably forthcoming guy — a platform to pass along some different kinds of insights. So this is a general review of Golesh’s run on Tiger Talk this week. ps: Andy Burcham and Brad Law are the show’s hosts. Many years ago, I beefed with Brad and referred to him as “Not Andy” in these synopses. We got that all squared away. When that happened, I told Brad that I’d start referring to him as “Brad” in this space. He said he preferred “Not Andy.” So that’s what I call him. THE FIRST SEGMENT ANDY asks if it’s good to get away from football. “It’s been a fun camp and it was cool to turn the page and get working on somebody else. In Year One, you just want to get to Game One. I’m excited to just see it.” NOT ANDY asks if AG is more intense now. “Are you saying I wasn’t intense before?” (GUFFAWS ALL AROUND) AG says he was filibustering with the Monday press conference because he just wants to get back into the film room. “My mind is in a lot of different places.” ANDY asks about the Fall Camp At The Hotel thing. Why was that important? “The camp piece very much is an NFL model. We’re trying to get there guys (to the NFL). So many things are not like the NFL in our game. One thing that is … they’re more spread out now. In that guys, guys actually have families and they’re grown-ups. We talk so much about process. What does elite, high-level process day to say look like? We talk about it, we teach it, we talk about it, we teach it. Here’s a two-week period where we can pull them out of their normal day-to-day and teach them, first hand, what that looks like.” “At the end of the day, it reconnects them and re-centers them.” “They thought it was really cool. It brought us closer together.” Photo by Auburn Athletics THE SECOND SEGMENT HERB is in the house. He wants to know how many players here are totally new to Auburn. “We’ve got right around 40 that transferred in and about 14 that were freshmen. So right over 50 that are now to Auburn. We’ve got close to 70 that were here. That seem to really, really love it.” “Everybody that we get on campus … Bruce Pearl told me this — that we’ve got to get kids on campus. This town gives off a very welcoming vibe.” NOT ANDY thinks AG does some of the things that Bruce did when he started 10+ year ago. Is that true, big dog? “I actually enjoy people. So far, people have enjoyed me, I think, because we’ve been really successful … we haven’t played a game yet. We’ll see how this journey continues. You are a part of the community. The football program is part of the community. You drive around this community and it’s all Auburn flags. (His kids) are my life. For me to be able to let them enjoy living life like a normal person … we’ve chosen to live like normal people.” “The first question everybody asks you is: Do you love Auburn? Has Auburn been good to you? That is really, really unique. Auburn people want you to love Auburn as much as they do. That’s different. That is unique.” TEDDY/TEDDYE is in the house. She wants to know about AG’s family. “They’ve been in a really good spot. My little guy Bear is in sixth grade. He played in his first tackle football game last night. I haven’t had time to watch the film yet, but we’ll evaluate it.” (GUFFAWS ALL AROUND) “He’s having a blast. My daughter is cheering. They got lightning’d out right before halftime. For my wife, being back in the South is really important to her.” Photo by Jake Crandall/IMAGN THE THIRD SEGMENT BUSTER is in the house. He says he’s ready to be at the game in Atlanta, likes that Auburn has an experienced QB. He wants to talk about the 5-for-5 stuff and the NFL guys trying to come back to NCAA. What does AG think? “Which part. Was there a question?” (GUFFAWS ALL AROUND) “The 5-for-5 deal is only going to help, I think, how you’re able to manage the younger guys in your program. The ability to let guys that are young play in whatever role it is … it allows you to help those guys develop. Playing in actual games is the (best) way to actually develop. It allows you to play more guys.” “We’ve kinda take it day-by-day as it’s come up. We’re working through … does it actually make sense to potentially add somebody or not. If you’re ever going to add somebody this late … man, it better be somebody who’s familiar with your program and your kids. For us, that would be really, really hard to do.” NOT ANDY asks about players buying in and how players improve based on what coaches want. “In this modern-day college football, we’ve … had to change as coaches. The one thing that hasn’t changed that young people crave relationships, they crave accountability, young people crave to be told the truth … and they crave to be loved. That hasn’t changed and I don’t know that it will. That’s why it’s not the NFL.” “We’ve hired people who care about young people, who are in it for the right reasons.” “We haven’t faced adversity in the sense of (facing) another team. That will be the true test of where we are. There is a level of trust that is high right now. What will test it are the things that come during the next 14 weeks.” ANDY wants to know about coaches asking players to play multiple positions on defense. “We’ve tried to recruit a certain type of athlete defensively. Length and speed are at a premium. When you recruit guys that have length and can run, then you can do so many different things … in terms of packages, in terms of fronts, in terms of illusions of certain things and then running something else.” “Guys know the more they can do, the better chance they’ve got to play and the better change they’ve got to stay on the field for situational football.” ANDY asks what AG will be doing after he leaves this show. “We take an hour and 15 minutes to call recruits, we call it ‘crossover calls.’ Tonight is the defense for me. We’ll get guys on the phone defensively and catch up with our top 25 guys. Offense is doing the same thing, passing the phone around catching up because it was the Week One in the state of Alabama and Georgia last week. Then we’ll get right back to game planning.”

Former Florida Gators guard Xaivian Lee, who went unselected in the 2026 NBA Draft but later participated in the NBA Summer League, has committed to Gonzaga, per Joe Tipton of On3. The 6-foot-3 Lee, a native of Toronto, Canada, played one season for the Gators. He averaged 11.6 points, 4.2 assists and 3.7 rebounds as UF went 27–8, won the SEC regular season championship and was a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Lee made 42 percent of his field goals, but only 29.2 percent from 3-point range. Previously, Lee played three seasons at Princetown. As a sophomore, he averaged 17.1 points a game, then followed that up by scoring 16.9 points a contest. Xaivian Lee recently entered the transfer portal Lee announced his plans to enters the transfer portal Aug. 18. Per Nick Kosko of On3, “Lee entered the NBA Draft process earlier this summer and went unselected during the 2026 edition. He agreed to am Exhibit 10 deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers back in June. An Exhibit 10 deal is a one-year, non-guaranteed NBA minimum-salary contract that invites a player to training camp. It is often utilized by franchises to evaluate undrafted rookies along with fringe players and allows them to retain the player’s G League rights if they are waived.” Earlier this year, Lee participated in the NBA G League Combine in Chicago. Lee was not among the six players invited to the NBA Draft Combine that week, but he made his mark in the two games he played and tested well in the various workouts. He led his team in assists on both scrimmages. Lee came off the bench in the first game and recorded eight assists, three rebounds and two points in 20:40 played. He then got the start in his second game and finished with six points, five assists, two rebounds and two steals in 23 minutes. He was one of the top performers in workouts. In February, Lee played some of his best basketball as a Gator. After a couple strong performances, he was named co-SEC Player of the Week. Lee posted 18 points and seven assists with no turnovers in Florida’s 86-66 victory at Georgia. He scored or assisted on 14 of UF’s 32 field goals in the game (44%). Three days later, Lee scored a team-high 22 points — leading five Gators in double figures — in the 92-83 win over No. 25 Kentucky on Saturday. He made his first four attempts from 3, tying his season high.

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Kentucky’s pursuit of fifth-year player Mark Mitchell has forced the Wildcats to jump through many hoops. There’s a new twist and turn almost every day. There’s a new wrinkle in this situation, and it doesn’t sound like good news for Mark Pope‘s Wildcats. Mitchell is one of numerous athletes from the class of 2022 who sought out an additional year of eligibility through the court system. The former All-SEC talent received a temporary restraining order (TRO) from a Louisville judge last Friday, giving him the green light to enter the transfer portal and find a new school. About 24 hours later, he was committed to Kentucky. In the wake of the NCAA chaos, various conferences decided to take a stand. The SEC created heavy-handed punishments for teams that are considering playing former NBA or NFL players. An SEC spokesperson confirmed that Mitchell did not fit that criteria, allowing the Cats to dodge a bullet, but another has been fired from the league office. CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander reports that Mitchell’s intra-conference transfer is under renewed scrutiny and in doubt after SEC presidents reaffirmed their conference’s policy on intra-league transfers. “From the sounds of it, the SEC is readying to treat Mitchell’s transfer in a secondary/delayed window as falling under the terms of its previously agreed-upon bylaw,” reports Norlander. Violating that rule would result in a half-season suspension for Mark Pope, among other significant financial penalties. SEC presidents reaffirmed their intraconference transfer policy prohibiting players moving within the league outside of the portal, per a copy of a Sankey memo.Violators are subject to (1) half-season suspension; (2) 50% of school’s sport budget; (3) removal of vote privileges. pic.twitter.com/kf4GaBs3Y0— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) August 27, 2026 Mitchell is not the only notable intra-conference transfer move in the SEC. A pair of former Ole Miss players, TE Dae’Quan Wright and DL Zxavian Harris, received a TRO and announced they will be following Lane Kiffin to LSU. Unlike Denzel Aberdeen, who elected to enter the portal prior to the creation of the 5-for-5 rule, Mark Mitchell did not submit his name to the transfer portal this spring. There’s a simple reason why: He thought his eligibility had expired. “UK will obviously fight for Mitchell to be on the roster and argue the option for him to enter the portal in the spring didn’t exist. Of course, the NCAA doesn’t believe the option should be there period,” Norlander wrote on Twitter. “Mitchell theoretically could be eligible back at Mizzou—or outside the SEC.” Prior to the official addition of Mitchell, there were rumblings that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey would use his power to prevent the intra-conference transfer from happening. It sounds like that process is underway. It’s not great news for Kentucky basketball fans. However, now is a good time to remember that during these silly times, the circumstances can change (for better or worse) in an instant. We’ll continue to closely monitor this developing situation.

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South Carolina special teams coordinator Matthew Smiley spoke with the media for the first time this preseason on Wednesday. Here’s everything he had to say. How is the kicking competition going? “It’s going good. All those guys are working their butts off, and we’re getting up a bunch of reps. So it’s been good to watch all of them compete and grow. It’s been a good competition up to this point.” How would you assess how things went with the kickers in game-like situations when you guys are out there scrimmaging? “We try to put them in as many game-like situations as we can. There are periods where we’re just field goal versus field goal block, and you’re getting just rep after rep after rep. But coach (Shane Beamer) has been great, whether it’s a two-minute drive, different situations where they have to be up and ready. We’ll even sneak them reps between periods when it’s just snapper, holder, kicker run out, just in an effort to get them in front of the team as much as possible and to get them as much of those types of reps as possible. And they’ve been doing a good job with those.” Who are some of the main guys that will factor in on kick return? “We actually did kick return today. Got a lot of good work, and we got a few guys back there catching it, and all those guys looked good today. I checked the film out real quick before I came in here. Got to dive back into that, but there’s three or four guys that are that were back there getting work and look comfortable catching the ball.” Questions about this story? Jack Veltri is discussing it with subscribers on The Insiders Forum. When do you want to have a leader for the kicking competition, or has one already emerged? “I don’t think there’s a timeline. I think kickers are different than if you were figuring out a starting quarterback. We haven’t established, and in talking to coach, there haven’t been conversations of, ‘Hey, this is the date, this is the guy.’ We’re letting those guys compete and really letting it unfold in front of us. And as guys start to say, ‘Hey, this is my job,’ and move ahead, letting that happen naturally.” You mentioned kind of the next step for Vicari Swain was being comfortable catching every ball. Is that something that you’ve seen progress from him so far? “Yeah, he’s doing a great job. Yesterday, we did — we call it ‘sky’ — it’s the short punt situation. So the returners got a lot of that work just with gunners and just him working his decision-making back there, his catching, his all the other stuff we’re talking about, the decoy stuff when I’m fair catching it, he did a great job yesterday. He continues to be real good back there and real comfortable, which is nice. He’s working hard.” Have you in your career experienced something where you guys had multiple kickers that you were trying out using maybe some of the reps of the kicks in season to try to determine who ends up being the one relied upon in a tight game? “Have I ever been involved in a kicker competition? Yes, I have been. Usually in the NFL, it’s two guys; it’s not three guys that are getting some reps, just because your roster is not as big. But definitely been involved with that. You would really not like to use game reps because that means that whoever you sent out there didn’t stay out there. But we’re all about scoring points, so I think, and I’m sure Coach (Shane Beamer) would echo this. At any position, it’s not like, ‘Hey, there’s your starting fill in the blank, and the backup is never going to see the field the whole year.’ So it doesn’t matter who goes out there for the first extra point. The rest of the guys are working their butt off to compete because we’ve got to keep scoring points.” How are things going with the long snapper battle? “Long snappers, short snappers, they’ve been doing a great job. Without getting into too many details about what they got going on in punt, they’ve really embraced both the accuracy of short snapping and long snapping and the coverage aspects in punt, that kind of thing. So those guys have been doing a real good job. And that’s nice to see with those long snappers because sometimes it’s tough when you have a kicker battle if your long snappers are not pulling their weight, because those kickers are on the edge of their seats for every rep. The snappers have done a great job. Mason Love is the holder. They’ve been serving up good snap holds to those kickers as those kickers compete to fight for that spot.” Overall, with the kicking competition, do you feel like things have progressed the way you would have wanted them to when you came into the preseason? “For me, it’s here’s the situation, here’s today. Let’s see how today works out, and then let’s make good decisions for tomorrow. So it sounds a little bit like a cop-out answer, but that’s the truth.” If you had to, would it be a possibility to have one kicker for shorter field goals and one kicker for longer field goals? Would you entertain that? “Definitely entertain it. I think that would have to be a specialized, like that would have to be an interesting situation, because I think if a guy is accurate from, let’s call it, ‘short distances,’ he could probably make that 51-52. Now, when you’re talking about, let’s call them, 56-57, end of half, end of game, now potentially that could be a specialty guy, and then you get into the conversation where what’s the percentage of your specialty guy, let’s call it 59 yards, as opposed to is a Hail Mary as an offensive play better? So yes, definitely a possibility. I don’t know if that’s how it’s going to unfold.” What do you think? Join the discussion on The Insiders Forum.

Former Florida guard Xaivian Lee is officially headed back to college basketball. After going undrafted in the 2026 NBA Draft and spending the summer with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Lee has committed to Gonzaga, according to On3’s Joe Tipton, giving Mark Few another experienced playmaker for the upcoming season. The veteran guard participated in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas but will instead return to the college ranks after entering the transfer portal. His decision gives Gonzaga one of the most accomplished guards available, while providing Lee another opportunity to boost his NBA stock. $19.99 gets you a FULL year of On3 | Rivals national coverage Earlier this summer, Lee signed an Exhibit 10 contract with Cleveland shortly after going undrafted in June, earning an opportunity to compete during Summer League. Across five appearances with the Cavaliers, the 6-foot-3 guard averaged 6.4 points, 2.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 16 minutes per game while shooting 40% from the field. However, his outside shooting never quite found a rhythm. Lee connected on just 21.4% of his 3-point attempts during Summer League while posting a minus-1 plus-minus across his five contests. Although he showed flashes as a facilitator and playmaker, the performance ultimately wasn’t enough to keep him on the NBA track for now. Instead, Lee will return to the college game after one season at Florida. He transferred to Gainesville last offseason following three standout years at Princeton, where he established himself as one of the Ivy League’s premier players. Lee earned back-to-back First Team All-Ivy League honors and became the first player in Princeton history to record a triple-double before making the jump to the defending national champions. That’s what Gonzaga will be expecting with his addition. While sharing the ball with a veteran Florida roster, Lee averaged 11.6 points, 4.2 assists and 3.7 rebounds per game. His 147 assists led the Gators, while his 2.4 assist-to-turnover ratio ranked among the SEC’s best as Florida captured the SEC regular-season championship and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Prior to arriving at Florida, Lee showcased his ability as a primary offensive option at Princeton. During his junior season with the Tigers, he averaged 16.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 5.5 assists while emerging as one of the nation’s most versatile guards. NBA evaluators have praised Lee’s offensive creativity, court vision and ability to create shots off the dribble. However, questions surrounding his size, defensive consistency and outside shooting contributed to him going undrafted this summer. Now, Lee will look to answer those questions at Gonzaga. The Bulldogs have developed a reputation for preparing experienced guards for the professional ranks. With this decision, Lee will have another opportunity to showcase his offensive skill set in one of college basketball’s premier programs. After taking his shot at the NBA, he’ll return to Spokane with hopes of leading Gonzaga on another deep postseason run while improving his draft stock for 2027. Time will tell if he’s successful in his quest. To keep up with the latest players on the move, check out On3’s Transfer Portal wire. The On3 Transfer Portal Instagram account and X (formerly Twitter) account are excellent resources to stay up to date with the latest moves.

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