Earlier this week, LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin announced that offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr will be allowed to coach the Ole Miss Rebels in the College Football Playoff before returning to Baton Rouge.

Weis spent the last four seasons with Kiffin in Oxford, serving as the offensive coordinator for each of those seasons.

“With the playoff committee releasing updated rankings tonight, I wanted it to be known that after conversations with LSU, we are allowing Charlie to return to Ole Miss to coach the team during the playoffs,” said Kiffin in a statement this week. “I’ve already made the committee aware of this and I’m hopeful this decision will allow Ole Miss to receive the highest ranking possible because these great players are very deserving of that. I’m excited that Charlie will be back to help coach the greatest team in the history of Ole Miss.”

SuperTalk Mississippi’s Richard Cross joined McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning on Thursday and he suggested that Weis could stay at Ole Miss instead of joining of Kiffin’s staff at LSU after the playoff.

“The fact that Charlie Weiss Jr got on that plane (with Kiffin) and went to Baton Rouge gives you pause,” said Cross. “And the fact that he is coming back, I think, gives you pause again. I said earlier this week that I don’t see how if Charlie Weis comes back that he’s going to turn around and leave again — depending on how this playoff run goes. If Ole Miss hosts a game, let’s say they end up getting Notre Dame and they get beat by three touchdowns — it’s over after one game…maybe in that scenario, he goes back (to LSU).

“But if Ole Miss were to win the first round game, if they were to get Virginia, or North Texas, or whomever in a first round game in Oxford, and they win that, and then you’re with the team through the first of the year, it feels like it gets a little more awkward and a little more likely that he would stay. I do know that Ole Miss very much wants him to stay. I have been told that there’s a contract offer on the table that would be for significantly more money than what was announced that LSU [is paying him].”

Lane Kiffin appears to provide some clarity on Charlie Weis, LSU, and Ole Miss

Kiffin appears to be confident, despite the comments from Cross, that Weis will join LSU’s coaching staff once the Rebels’ playoff run is over.

“Let’s go Rebels!! Charlie will be back in the building soon,” wrote Kiffin on his Instagram story on Friday.

Kiffin seems confident that Weis will return to Baton Rouge once the Ole Miss playoff run is complete. That’s certainly good news for the Tigers, as it’s one less item that Kiffin will need to take care of this offseason as he looks to return LSU to the national championship conversation.

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