Alex Golesh continues to assemble quite the first-year staff for his inaugural season atop the Auburn Tigers football program.
Golesh’s right-hand man, Andrew Warsaw, the Tigers’ general manager, is making his own major moves for the Auburn program as well.
Multiple sources tell FootballScoop that Golesh, Warsaw and the Tigers are hiring Luke Haker, one of the top, up-and-coming directors of football operations in collegiate athletics, for Auburn’s DFO position.
It was just earlier this fall that Haker was nominated for FootballScoop’s annual DFO of the Year award by his current boss, record-setting Austin Peay coach Jeff Faris.
“Luke Haker is as relentless, organized and forward-thinking as anyone I’ve been around,” Faris, at the time of his nomination of Haker, told FootballScoop. “Players love him. He handles every component of operations seamlessly.
“As the head coach, he takes so much off my plate it allows me to focus on what I love most. His work ethic and ability to stay one step ahead are unmatched.”
Already with experience in the NFL at the Cleveland Browns and in the Southeastern Conference at Mississippi State, Haker also is set to be reunited on the Plains with Warsaw — his longtime mentor.
He’s worked with some of college football’s new wave of ascending head coaches. In addition to his time as chief of staff and director of team operations at Austin Peay for Faris the past two years, Haker also served as assistant director of football operations for Charles Huff at Marshall from 2021-22. There, Haker was part of the Marshall Thundering Herd team that shocked the college football world with its win at then-nationally ranked Notre Dame — a triumph that prompted West Virginia’s governor to call Huff and the Herd on their flight home.
Haker is a Mississippi State alum.