Bradley Sowell backs Golding’s laser focus on Ole Miss’ playoff run
Talk of Champions
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Pete Golding has had his hands full the last two weeks.
Golding took over for Lane Kiffin, who left for LSU. As a result, he’s been tasked with preparing Ole Miss for the College Football Playoff, all while recruiting, building out his staff and preparing for the transfer portal opening in January.
Golding will eventually have to find long-term solutions for wide receivers coach, tight ends coach, linebackers coach and likely running backs coach — assuming Kevin Smith, as expected, leaves following the playoff run.
Bradley Sowell, though, agrees with Golding’s approach, which is focusing exclusively on the title run. The 6-seed Rebels host 11-seed Tulane on December 20 in Oxford.
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| 1:00.1 | Hello again, everyone, and welcome inside an all-new edition of Talk of Champions. |
| 1:03.9 | I'm Ben Garrett at Spiritbent on Twitter. |
| 1:05.8 | He's Bradley South, former Ole Miss Offensive lineman eight-year NFL vets. |
| 1:10.0 | Today's edition of Talk of Champions, like everyday's edition of talk of champions, |
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| 1:28.2 | But he's pretty much regular now at the oldmansp all day every day. But Brad's there too, whenever he just feels like dropping in and out. |
| 1:28.3 | But he's pretty much regular now at the Oldmouth Spirit. Oldspirit.com to fit of on 13. If you sign up today, you can sign up for $1 and hang out with us and talk about all the things that are happening around Ole Miss Football. The playoff chase, Pete Goating, building out of staff, recruiting, transfer portal coming up. so much happening at the Old Miss Spirit and we do it all day every day. Hey Brad, how are you? |
| 1:46.2 | Good, Ben. How are you been, man? |
| 1:48.0 | I'm good. Recruiting transfer portal coming up so much happening at the Ole Miss Spirit and we do it all day every day. Hey Brad, how are you? |
| 1:46.1 | Good, Ben. How are you been, man? I'm good, man. Now that the dust is kind of settled and staff stuff is getting more and more filled out specifically with John David Baker, your guy as offensive coordinator. What do you make of the first full weekish, we could say, of the peak golden era at Ole Miss? What's your takeaway? You know, I'm really excited about that higher. You know, obviously I've talked to John Davis. He's, to me, man, he kind of fits what we need. It's an extension of the offense we've been running. And so you going to get a lot of familiar terms, whatever, forever has been there. So I think that provides some comfort to whoever is, you know, already been there in the offense. And secondly, like, my biggest thing is I love the up-tempo. And that's what he is. I mean, you look at East Carolina stats. They ran, they ran more plays than we did last year. So anybody that can take a roster like East Carolina from 132ndth in the country out of 136 and take him into the top 25 both years that he was calling the play. That's pretty impressive. It's not like he has the type of athletes that we have. So it shows that the scheme is good. Now, if you plug some good athletes in there, can he be a top 10 offense? You know, potentially, I think he can. So great recruiter. He was responsible for Jackson Dart and Trigg coming to Ole Miss. And I think that, you know, I think it's a home run higher for us based off of what we as Ole Miss fans want to see in offense. |
| 3:12.5 | ECU went from 2 and 10 in their first year to 8 and 5, his first year. |
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