LSU allows coach to stay at Ole Miss for playoff semifinal despite coaching exodus: report

The disorder surrounding who volition beryllium coaching No. 6 Ole Miss successful the playoffs has reached a resolution, astatine slightest done the semifinals.

LSU is allowing violative coordinator Charlie Weis Jr., who is pursuing Lane Kiffin from Ole Miss to Baton Rouge upon the decision of the season, to stay with the Rebels for Thursday's College Football Playoff semifinal against No. 10 Miami.

Running backs manager Kevin Smith is besides slated to proceed coaching Ole Miss, ESPN reported.

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

Multiple cardinal coordinators and assistants agreed to contracts with LSU soon aft Kiffin bolted from the Rebels, including violative coordinator Weis, choky ends coach/co-offensive coordinator Joe Cox, and wide receivers coach/passing crippled coordinator George McDonald. Cox and McDonald are not expected to manager Ole Miss connected Thursday.

New Ole Miss caput manager Pete Golding noted the uncertainty of which coaches would beryllium disposable this weekend.

"They person each accidental similar they person up to this constituent to beryllium capable to marque that decision," Golding said 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."

Mississippi Rebels violative coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. watches during lukewarm ups anterior to the crippled against the Georgia Southern Eagles astatine Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.  (Petre Thomas/Imagn Images)

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Ole Miss really barred Kiffin from finishing the play with the team. However, LSU agreed to wage Kiffin's College Football Playoff bonuses.

LSU had reportedly been targeting 3 cardinal players — backmost Trinidad Chambliss, moving backmost Kewan Lacy, and kicker Lucas Carneiro — from Ole Miss' quarterfinal win, but each 3 signed deals to stay with the Rebels.

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, Louisiana, connected Jan. 1, 2026. (Ayrton Breckenridge/Clarion Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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The Rebels took down Tulane convincingly successful the archetypal circular of the playoffs earlier defeating Georgia, the No. 3 seed, successful the Sugar Bowl. The Rebels-Hurricanes victor volition beforehand to look either No. 1 Indiana oregon No. 5 Georgia for the nationalist championship.

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