Ole Miss hires John David Baker as OC - LIVE reaction + other staff matters
Talk of Champions
OMSpirit
4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
The Pete Golding era at Ole Miss is in full swing.
Golding on Tuesday named John David Baker as the Rebels’ new offensive coordinator. In today’s episode of Game Runs Deep, Sudu Upadhyay and Ben Garrett break down why JDB was the right hire, the Lane-Kiffin-like scheme he’s bringing to Oxford and more.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody. |
| 0:00.9 | Come on back into another episode of Game Runs Deep. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm Sudeau. |
| 0:04.2 | That has been Garrett. |
| 0:05.6 | And Benny G. |
| 0:07.7 | Just so much going on in college football right now. |
| 0:10.9 | Obviously, we got the playoff field set. |
| 0:14.0 | And you've got Ole Miss bringing in most of their offensive assistants, who we thought were in Baton Rouge. |
| 0:24.1 | Coming back to Oxford to help coach the playoff run. |
| 0:28.9 | Ole Miss just hired an offensive coordinator, so much to get to today. |
| 0:30.3 | But first of all, it's been a few days, dude. |
| 0:30.8 | How are you? |
| 0:32.1 | I'm good, man. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:33.1 | How are you? |
| 0:34.9 | It's been busy. |
| 0:38.7 | I mean, what you're looking at these days, especially at Ole Miss, |
| 0:46.9 | is what used to be about three to six months worth of stuff packed into a two-week period, right? |
| 0:49.6 | It's not just Lane Kiffin leaving for LSU. |
| 0:51.2 | It's National Signing Day. |
| 0:54.8 | It's the transfer portal and all those considerations as well. And for Pete Golding, amidst all this and they resume practices for the college football |
| 0:58.9 | playoff on Monday, amidst all of this, he's got to fill out of staff. And today went a long |
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