By Michael GallagherShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberOle Miss fans made it known how they felt about Pete Golding taking over as the permanent head coach after Lane Kiffin bolted to LSU just before the College Football Playoff.
“Pete, Pete, Pete!” fans chanted during Saturday’s 41-10 domination of Tulane in the Rebels’ CFP opener in Oxford.
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While it seems the Ole Miss fan base has clearly moved on from Kiffin and his antics (he drew out his decision between Ole Miss, LSU, and Florida for weeks), Golding couldn’t help but throw some shade at his former boss on multiple occasions during his postgame presser.
“These kids have gone 11-1 up to this point, right, and had a home playoff game for the first time in the history of the program,” Golding said of whether he was worried the Kiffin situation was a distraction leading up to the CFP, via On3. “These dudes want to compete. And just like I told them, they don’t really care who runs them out of the tunnel. That’s the truth, right?”
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But Golding wasn’t done there.
He was later asked whether he was worried about Charlie Weiss Jr., Ole Miss’ former offensive coordinator who left to join Kiffin at LSU, returning to call plays for the Rebels in the Playoff, to which he took another subtle jab at Kiffin.
“I had no concern on that because the last thing Charlie wanted to do is come out here and lay an egg,” Golding continued. “Right? Because then whose offense is it? Yeah, you’d be writing about it.
“Whose offense is it? That’s right. You say his name. Whose offense is it? … You just said [it was Kiffin’s]. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because he didn’t score any points, so Kiff wasn’t here. Right.”
Golding’s second game as a head coach comes a little less than two weeks from now when Ole Miss plays No. 3 Georgia in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals on Jan 1.
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