Norsworthy believes Golding can do what past Ole Miss first-timers couldn’t
Talk of Champions
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Brett ‘Stats’ Norsworthy of the Ole Miss Radio Network has always been reluctant of first-time head coaches in the SEC.
There’s a difference with Pete Golding, the third-year Rebel defensive coordinator, who’s taken over for Lane Kiffin as Ole Miss head coach. Kiffin left the No. 6 and 11-1 Rebels for SEC rival LSU.
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| 0:27.2 | And now back to the show. And welcome in the Believe in Ole Miss podcast. So happy to have my good |
| 0:32.0 | friend Brett Norsworthy who does a fantastic job on the Ole Miss Radio Network and also on Sports 56 WHBQ in Memphis. And I told Brad, if Ole Miss makes the college football playoff, we have to have you on at the end of the year. Well, he absolutely took the bet. He's here. And Brad, it was a heck of a year. It was a great year. And I'm glad to be joining you. I would have, whether we had made the playoff or not, Brad, you know that, |
| 0:56.4 | but so glad that Ole Miss is, you know, firmly, |
| 0:59.8 | and it's just a matter of what final seed and who we play in hosting. |
| 1:05.0 | And it was a lot of hard work put in by a lot of people to get there. |
| 1:09.3 | We were so disappointed last year. There were times |
| 1:12.5 | last year at the end of the year that, I mean, it was affecting my personality. It was almost |
| 1:20.1 | like the end of trading places. Get back out there and reopen those markets. Let those games |
| 1:25.5 | over again. And it was so aggravating because I still think we were one of the best two or three |
| 1:32.0 | teams last year. |
| 1:33.2 | And I think we're one of the two or three best teams this year with a chance to not only |
| 1:38.0 | be in the college football playoffs, but I think a reasonable shot at winning at all, Brad. |
| 1:43.7 | You and I talked a little bit after the Egg Bowl. |
| 1:47.0 | Let's talk about the rivalry with Mississippi State. |
| 1:50.5 | You know, I think Lane did a great job of separating Ole Miss and Mississippi State. |
| 1:54.3 | It's a rivalry, but it's not very competitive right now. |
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