College football insider dishes on whether offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr will actually join Lane Kiffin’s staff at LSU
New LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin is still working to put his coaching staff together.
News broke earlier this week that new LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin is going to allow offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr to coach the Ole Miss Rebels in the College Football Playoff.
Weis has spent a total of eight seasons with Kiffin as an assistant coach, including the last four seasons at Ole Miss (Weis was also with Kiffin for two seasons at FAU and two seasons at Alabama).
“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.”
The assumption is that Weis will coach with Ole Miss in the playoff and then join Kiffin in Baton Rouge when the Rebels’ season is over.
Not everyone, however, believes the situation is guaranteed to play out that way.
College football insider thinks there’s a chance Ole Miss hangs on to Charlie Weis Jr
SuperTalk Mississippi’s Richard Cross joined McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning on Thursday and he discussed the Weis situation and how he could see it playing out.
“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].”
You never know how these coaching moves will play out — especially in this current era. But it certainly sounds like it’s not a foregone conclusion that Weis will be joining Kiffin’s staff at LSU.
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