Ole Miss coach Pete Golding says LSU holds power over Lane Kiffin's assistants as Rebels eye CFP semifinal

Ole Miss manager Pete Golding is preparing for Miami and the anticipation of coaching the College Football Playoff semifinal shorthanded.

Golding said LSU volition yet determine which, if any, of the assistants who person committed to joining Lane Kiffin successful Baton Rouge volition beryllium permitted to manager for Ole Miss successful adjacent week's Fiesta Bowl. 

Multiple cardinal coordinators and assistants agreed to contracts with LSU soon aft Kiffin bolted from the Rebels, including violative coordinator Charlie Weis Jr., choky ends coach/co-offensive coordinator Joe Cox and wide receivers coach/passing crippled coordinator George McDonald.

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Ole Miss caput manager Pete Golding lifts the Sugar Bowl trophy aft the Sugar Bowl and College Football Playoff quarterfinals astatine Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans Jan. 1, 2026. (Ayrton Breckenridge/Clarion Ledger/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

"They person each accidental similar they person up to this constituent to beryllium capable to marque that decision," Golding told reporters Saturday. "So, week successful and week out, I don't dictate whether they bash that oregon not, due to the fact that they're not employed by me. Up to this point, that's however it's been, and that's my expectation."

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Ole Miss tin unafraid the program’s first-ever nationalist rubric if the Rebels tin triumph 2 much games. ESPN reported, that astatine slightest immoderate of the adjunct coaches who are successful limbo would similar to instrumentality with Ole Miss arsenic agelong arsenic the squad remains live successful the playoffs.

Golding stressed the uncertainty volition not disrupt Fiesta Bowl preparations. 

"Our players cognize what to do," helium said. "It’s going to person nary interaction connected the game. Keep blowing it up and making it a large deal, it’d beryllium great."

Mississippi Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin (right) talks with violative coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. during warmups anterior to a crippled against the Georgia State Panthers astatine Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. (Petre Thomas/Imagn Images)

He besides acknowledged helium is unaware of erstwhile helium volition person confirmation astir the assistants’ availability.

"I don't know. Do you cognize if you're going to amusement up astatine enactment tomorrow? I mean, we don't know. It's grown radical making decisions, truthful I person nary idea. We're going to spell retired determination and spot the ball. We got plentifulness capable radical successful this gathering who showed up this morning. We'll beryllium conscionable fine."

Ole Miss volition besides yet suffer elder analyst/pass crippled specializer Dane Stevens and postgraduate adjunct Sawyer Jordan to LSU. Nevertheless, Golding remains assured successful his staff, 1 helium said is "filled with elite coaches everywhere" who tin grip their respective responsibilities.

Mississippi Rebels caput manager Pete Golding is dunked with a Gatorade cooler by his players aft their crippled against the Georgia Bulldogs successful the 2025 Sugar Bowl and quarterfinal crippled of the College Football Playoff astatine Caesars Superdome.  (Geoff Burke/Imagn Images)

"A batch of guys that y'all don't cognize by sanction are really the ones instructing and teaching players," helium said. "And truthful we person an elite unit that's been unneurotic for a agelong clip that knows the ins and outs. So, nary antithetic than during COVID erstwhile a manager didn't amusement up for the game. 

"These things evidently travel up each year, and guys effort to bash some jobs, and they person responsibilities of the caller occupation that instrumentality precedence, particularly successful times similar this. And past they tin marque some work. If they can't, they can't. That would not beryllium immoderate crushed for occurrence oregon deficiency of occurrence with this game. The playcallers haven't changed."

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Before the upset triumph successful the Sugar Bowl, Golding guided Ole Miss to a first-round playoff triumph implicit Tulane.

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