Former ESPN star blasts Ole Miss after Pete Golding revealed as Lane Kiffin’s chosen successor

The intimately watched play successful the assemblage shot satellite yet reached its conclusion. Lane Kiffin, the caput manager astatine Ole Miss for the past six years, boarded a formation for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this past Sunday.

Kiffin was formally introduced arsenic LSU's adjacent caput manager connected Monday. Ole Miss rapidly responded to Kiffin's exit by elevating Pete Golding from his antiaircraft coordinator station to the presumption of caput coach. 

While Kiffin’s exit sparked sizeable backlash, erstwhile ESPN big and existent sports commentator and podcaster Bomani Jones turned his absorption to the coach’s handpicked successor.

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Pete Golding looks connected anterior to the assemblage shot crippled betwixt the Ole Miss Rebels and the Georgia Bulldogs connected Oct. 18, 2025, astatine Sanford Stadium successful Athens, Georgia.   (Jeffrey Vest/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Jones lambasted Golding's show during his stint arsenic Ole Miss' antiaircraft coordinator.  He besides floated a mentation astir Golding's appearance.

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"I had known him by name. I saw a representation of him and was similar ‘There’s nary mode that antheral is simply a caput coach…'" Jones said.

Bomani Jones onstage during  "Colin In Black And White", Netflix, And Dreamville Present Path To Power Summit astatine Clark Atlanta University connected Nov. 04, 2021 successful Atlanta, Georgia.  (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Netflix)

Golding has coached for astir 2 decades, but this volition beryllium his archetypal accidental to pb a shot programme that competes successful a Power Four conference.

Kiffin coached the Rebels to triumph implicit Mississippi State successful the Egg Bowl rivalry crippled past Friday to unafraid an 11-1 grounds for Ole Miss. While Ole Miss did not suffice for this week's SEC Championship Game successful Atlanta, the seventh-ranked Rebels are successful presumption to apt beforehand to the College Football Playoff.

Whatever crippled Ole Miss ends up playing aboriginal this period volition beryllium Golding's archetypal accidental arsenic the Rebels' caput coach. After reportedly gathering with Ole Miss diversion manager Keith Carter and schoolhouse chancellor Glenn Boyce, Kiffin learned his clip coaching the Rebels had travel to an end.

LSU shot caput manager Lane Kiffin speaks astatine South Stadium Club astatine Tiger Stadium connected Dec. 1, 2025 successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana.   (Matthew Hinton/Imagn Images)

"I was hoping to implicit a historical six-season tally with this year's squad by starring Ole Miss done the playoffs, capitalizing connected the team's unthinkable occurrence and their committedness to decorativeness strong, and investing everything into a playoff tally with guardrails successful spot to support the programme successful immoderate areas of concern," Kiffin said successful a statement. 

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LSU parted ways with Brian Kelly successful precocious October, soon aft the Tigers dropped a location crippled to Texas A&M.

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