re: OT: Reports circulating that Ole Miss will name Pete Golding permanent head coach

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End of the day, Ole Miss is in a miserable position.

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Golding is a complete and total unknown as a head coach but if the staff is staying instead of following Kiffin, that says a lot about how they feel about him. If most of their players stay, it'll speak even louder.

They're in the playoffs and quite possibly hosting a first round game. I wouldn't say they're in a miserable position at all. They're facing a scary unknown, but that's the case with almost any coaching change anywhere. Very few programs can lose the most successful coach in their program's history, make a phone call, and fill the vacancy with a guy that just coached for a natty somewhere else a few days earlier.

Most everyone else is going to have to take a chance with one of the current flavor-of-the-month G5 head coaches or a coordinator from a successful P4 program.

Arkansas, and to a lesser extent Auburn were/are up against the same hiring challenges but aren't coming at it from a position of great success this entire decade. That's the miserable position.

Ha-Ha

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Using this picture is absolutely diabolical

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Ole Miss should fire their A.D. today. I am absolutely stunned that with weeks to prepare and knowing Lane Kiffin‘s track record, the A.D. did not have one or two names of coaches that had more or less verbally agreed to take the job if when he bolted for LSU. The incompetence astounds me.

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They don’t really have a choice. They are gearing up for a playoff run and hiring Golding was the only way to keep the staff and roster together.

Yes the players are happy because this is what they have worked all year for, makes since if it was not Pete Golding, lol

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As far as Kiffin goes, I had hoped all the BS of him maturing and settling down was true. It was not, not at all. You can’t make a housewife out of a ho’

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He fricked Ole Miss bad. He fricked 10erC so bad it took them years to recover.

I hope he fricks LSU just as hard

I have also heard that Nick Saban is the reason there was never a serious attempt to hire Kiffin when he stepped down. And that as long as Saban is associated with the Alabama football program, Lane Kiffin will not be considered as a candidate for the job.
Saban may respect his acumen for offensive football and like him as a person, but he also knows what he is like professionally and wouldn’t allow Alabama to damage the program by hiring him. And after today, would ANY Alabama fan want that man anywhere near Tuscaloosa? His name is now radioactive in college football circles so if he wants out of LSU, he’d better hope the NFL comes calling.

Winning cures everything. I do agree that Lane Kiffin has a track record in this respect but it is always a problem for the team he's leaving in the dust not his own problem nor his new employer's or fans' problem either.

His current employer and fans will love him right up to the moment he crashes out or dips out of town in the dead of night.

I’m so glad Byrne never even considered Kiffin. I can’t wait to see Alabama continue to beat LSU.

Some bad stuff went down before the 2016 Washinton game. My understanding is that Kiffin got so wasted that the training staff had to administer fluids to sober him up. Lane Kiffin cost Alabama a National Championship in what was probably Saban's best team.