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

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

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

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

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Ole Miss caput coach Pete Golding lifts nan Sugar Bowl trophy aft nan 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 opportunity for illustration they person up to this constituent to beryllium capable to make that decision," Golding told reporters Saturday. "So, week successful and week out, I don't dictate whether they do that aliases not, because they're not employed by me. Up to this point, that's really it's been, and that's my expectation."

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

Golding stressed nan uncertainty will not disrupt Fiesta Bowl preparations. 

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

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

He besides acknowledged he is unaware of erstwhile he will person confirmation astir nan assistants’ availability.

"I don't know. Do you cognize if you're going to show up astatine activity tomorrow? I mean, we don't know. It's grown group making decisions, truthful I person nary idea. We're going to spell retired location and spot nan ball. We sewage plentifulness capable group successful this building who showed up this morning. We'll beryllium conscionable fine."

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

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

"A batch of guys that y'all don't cognize by sanction are really nan ones instructing and school players," he said. "And truthful we person an elite unit that's been together for a agelong clip that knows nan ins and outs. So, nary different than during COVID erstwhile a coach didn't show up for nan game. 

"These things evidently travel up each year, and guys effort to do some jobs, and they person responsibilities of nan caller occupation that return precedence, particularly successful times for illustration this. And past they tin make some work. If they can't, they can't. That would not beryllium immoderate logic for occurrence aliases deficiency of occurrence pinch this game. The playcallers haven't changed."

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Before nan upset triumph successful nan Sugar Bowl, Golding guided Ole Miss to a first-round playoff victory complete Tulane.

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