Overview
- Frank Wilson told LSU players and staff he plans to join Pete Golding’s Ole Miss staff following the Tigers’ Dec. 27 Texas Bowl, multiple outlets reported.
- Reports indicate Wilson will depart after serving as LSU’s interim head coach and longtime running backs coach, returning to a school where he previously coached from 2005 to 2007.
- The reported hire follows Ole Miss bringing in former LSU senior football administrator Austin Thomas, underscoring a month-long coaching and personnel swap between the programs.
- Lane Kiffin, who left Ole Miss for LSU on a $13 million-a-year deal, has assembled much of his first Tigers staff with former Rebels assistants, and LSU still has a vacant running backs coach spot.
- Ole Miss, promoted under new head coach Pete Golding, is preparing for its CFP game with some departing assistants allowed to coach through the playoff and with a focus on roster retention amid transfer-portal pressure.