Lane Kiffin’s LSU assistants return to Ole Miss to help in playoff

Lane Kiffin is already assembling his teaching employees at LSU, however 4 of his present assistants who left Ole Miss to affix him in Baton Rouge are reportedly heading again to Oxford.

The Rebels, after ending the yr 11-1 with Kiffin as head coach, are within the Faculty Soccer Playoff, which begins subsequent weekend.

In consequence, the LSU assistants be part of offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. at Ole Miss to assist him and new coach Pete Golding put together for the crew’s first-round recreation in opposition to the Tulane Inexperienced Wave. according to ESPN.

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Mississippi head coach Lane Kiffin watches his crew play Oklahoma in the course of the first half of an NCAA school soccer recreation in Norman, Oklahoma, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (Alonzo Adams/AP Photograph)

Tight ends coach Joe Cox, large receivers coach George McDonald, assistant quarterbacks coach Dane Stevens and slot large receivers coach Sawyer Jordan arrived on the Ole Miss campus on Monday, in line with the report.

Kiffin in the end allowed the coaches to return to Oxford to “assist the employees and gamers maximize alternatives within the playoffs,” marking the primary time for the Rebels for the reason that CFP’s inception.

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Weis was additionally somebody Kiffin allowed to return to Oxford after the latter made the choice to take over because the Tigers’ subsequent head coach following the mid-season departure of Brian Kelly.

It is a acquainted foe for the Rebels, as they confronted Tulane earlier this season on September 20 in a 45-10 loss.

The divorce between Kiffin and Ole Miss was not essentially the most amicable, nevertheless, as Insurgent athletic director Keith Carter disputed a number of of Kiffin’s claims about not being allowed to teach Ole Miss within the CFP.

Ole Miss Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin within the fourth quarter in opposition to the Arkansas Razorbacks at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium on November 2, 2024. (Nelson Chenault/Imagn Photos)

“Lots of issues that publicly I am unsure are utterly correct,” Carter mentioned SuperTalk Mississippi.

Carter did say that Kiffin and his representatives had been informed a number of weeks upfront that teaching Ole Miss in any potential playoff video games was a non-starter.

Kiffin mentioned in his farewell message to the Rebels that he requested to “full a historic six-season run with this yr’s crew by main Ole Miss via the playoffs,” however Carter denied it “regardless of the crew additionally asking him to permit me to proceed teaching.”

However certainly one of Kiffin’s gamers additionally refuted that declare. Offensive lineman Brycen Sanders shortly went to X after seeing Kiffin’s assertion.

LSU soccer head coach Lane Kiffin speaks on the South Stadium Membership at Tiger Stadium on December 1, 2025, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Matthew Hinton/Imagn Photos)

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“I believe everybody who was in that room would disagree with that,” Sanders mentioned.

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