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Auburn OLB Coach Brad Wilson - Post-Transfer Portal · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  has it been like in Auburn so far this?
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  >> Uh, it's been great. The transition's
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  been really smooth. I think that, you
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  know, everything that everybody talked
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  about with the community and the
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  university and and the support and the
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  most importantly the people. Um, it's
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  it's been it's been great. You know, my
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  family's uh got here just after the
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  first of the year and kids are in school
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  and my wife's finding her way around
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  town. So it's it's been everything that
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  you know and more than our expectations
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  uh were coming here.
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  >> Tell me about your relationship with
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  Goish.
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  >> So Coach Galish and I go way back to
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  shoot I think 2005. Um we were both uh
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  he was working as a student coach at at
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  Ohio State at the time. I believe I was
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  a student coach at Ashton University and
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  just kind of getting around to camps and
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  you know trying to network and um
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  build build relationships from that
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  standpoint that you know we were both at
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  the time in our careers where we were
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  looking to move on to maybe graduate
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  assistant jobs and kind of get our foot
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  in the door. And uh again trying to at
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  that time you know you had these camps
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  that were you know 3 4 days and a couple
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  nights. And so first time I met him was
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  down at uh at an Ohio State camp like I
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  said in 2005. And and here we are uh you
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  know we go down there and you know we
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  think we're going to you know at least I
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  did thought I was going to be you know
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  working this camp and getting to meet
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  all these coaches and everything and I
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  get there and they've got all the gas
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  and the student coaches working with the
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  youth. So, so we're working with about
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  fourth through 8th graders and uh you
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  know had to watch them in the dorms and
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  make sure that they were you know where
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  they needed to be when they were
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  supposed to be there and then got a
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  chance to to coach them you know during
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  the day and but that was really where it
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  started for us and I think that it
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  didn't take us long to to realize that
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  you know we were not only both trying to
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  accomplish the same thing but feel like
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  there was a lot of common value there um
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  and we were both trying to do it the
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  same way you you know, both of us were
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  trying to come up through it um the same
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  way and build a network and and uh you
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  know, work really really hard and do any
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  job that we could u to show people that
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  we were willing to learn and willing to
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  work and I think you know so that's
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  where it goes all the way back to there
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  and then it just kind of grew and you
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  know as I've said before I you know I've
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  known him for a long time as a as a
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  friend and and then you know got to know
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  him obviously as you know as a husband
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  and a father as his family grew and and
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  then um getting a chance to go be a part
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  of his staff a year ago. Really learned
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  a lot about him as a as a leader and a
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  teacher. Um and you know, don't can't
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  can't say enough great things about uh
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  the impact that that he's had on me from
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  afar. Uh and just the opportunity to to
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  be a part of his staff and have our
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  family here with with him and and his
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  wife Lex and and obviously his his kids
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  Corbin and Bear has been it's like I
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  said, been a long relationship. Uh but
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  uh but one that's just grown, you know,
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  as as the years have gone.
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  >> Are you from Ohio?
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  >> I am. Yeah. Originally from just outside
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  of the Mansfield area, small town called
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  Shelby, Ohio. So um that's where my wife
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  and I both, you know, are from. We went
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  to high school together and uh so yeah.
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  But yeah, I feel like there's a cradle
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  of coaches like there's some great ones
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  come through that area. I mean Jim
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  Trestle and Urban Meyer and stuff. Is it
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  just different up there? I know I know
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  like Masselon is a capital, but is is
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  high school football a huge deal there?
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  >> Yeah, I mean football is really
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  important. I I I come from a family
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  that, you know, my grandfather was a was
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  a high school football coach for 38
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  years. Uh both my uncles each have over
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  25 years of high school coaching in
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  their in their on their resumes. Um and
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  so I always that was always something
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  that was exciting to me. I've been
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  standing on a on a on a sideline on a
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  Friday night ever since I can remember
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  as a as a little kid as a ball boy and
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  you know doing just being around team,
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  being around coaching, being around
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  players um and really seeing what that
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  was all about and and I I think that was
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  that was initially the plan for myself
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  and for my wife. We thought we were
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  going to go back to our hometown and
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  when we got done in college and and
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  teach and coach. Um, and then we were
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  given an opportunity, like I said, over
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  at Ashlin University to to be a student
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  coach there and then on to Bowling Green
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  as a GA and so on and so forth. So, but
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  yeah, that's how it all started. What
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  was the