Four days from the biggest home game Ole Miss has played in a decade, the building is calm — and Pete Golding made it that way on purpose. Locked On Ole Miss host Steven Willis takes the positive side of the pressure question. Asked what his players have been saying about this game and how much they talk about it, Golding said: "to be honest with you, I mean, we really haven't had that dialogue." There has been no team meeting about Lane Kiffin. He walked through the real week instead — Sunday recap and corrections, lift, walkthroughs, the Rookie Bowl, Monday off, and "Tuesdays when we come in, it's about the opponent." Then the line that ends the argument: "whether Coach Kiffin was coaching this team or not, right, in order for their preparation to be the right way to win the game, I think it's going to be exactly the same." He is not pretending the emotion is absent — "is there an emotional piece to this? Absolutely. And there's an emotional piece to every week" — he simply will not build a Tuesday around it. The one time he pushed on motivation: "if they can't get up for this one, I don't know why they play the game." Segment two is what Ole Miss actually gains this week. Golding read the availability list out loud: Tommy Kinsler goes Tuesday, Caleb Odom back in on scout periods, Sharif Denson doing all of them, Antonio Kite doing some — and "everybody that we didn't have in that game, we're expecting tomorrow to be able to practice." Then the crowd, treated as football: "the helmet-to-helmet communication now in college football, it's a lot harder when you got 67,000 people screaming... so much of that communication is done from the sideline to the player now that I think crowds now can neutralize that." And his own protection: "you're constantly changing the signals... multiple ways to signal within the same game." The honest counterweights: a calm building has never blocked anybody, and 67,000 is Golding's round figure rather than an attendance count. So how loud does Vaught-Hemingway need to be? Tell us in the comments. Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #PeteGolding #OleMissFootball #LSU #SEC #VaughtHemingway CHAPTERS — 0:00 Cold Open And Today's Two Takes 0:51 The Snap Count — 25 Snaps, Then 70 2:20 Kalshi 2:47 Make Him A Pocket Passer
Four days from the biggest home game Ole Miss has played in a decade, the building is calm — and Pete Golding made it that way on purpose.
Locked On Ole Miss host Steven Willis takes the positive side of the pressure question. Asked what his players have been saying about this game and how much they talk about it, Golding said: "to be honest with you, I mean, we really haven't had that dialogue." There has been no team meeting about Lane Kiffin. He walked through the real week instead — Sunday recap and corrections, lift, walkthroughs, the Rookie Bowl, Monday off, and "Tuesdays when we come in, it's about the opponent." Then the line that ends the argument: "whether Coach Kiffin was coaching this team or not, right, in order for their preparation to be the right way to win the game, I think it's going to be exactly the same."
He is not pretending the emotion is absent — "is there an emotional piece to this? Absolutely. And there's an emotional piece to every week" — he simply will not build a Tuesday around it. The one time he pushed on motivation: "if they can't get up for this one, I don't know why they play the game."
Segment two is what Ole Miss actually gains this week. Golding read the availability list out loud: Tommy Kinsler goes Tuesday, Caleb Odom back in on scout periods, Sharif Denson doing all of them, Antonio Kite doing some — and "everybody that we didn't have in that game, we're expecting tomorrow to be able to practice." Then the crowd, treated as football: "the helmet-to-helmet communication now in college football, it's a lot harder when you got 67,000 people screaming... so much of that communication is done from the sideline to the player now that I think crowds now can neutralize that." And his own protection: "you're constantly changing the signals... multiple ways to signal within the same game."
The honest counterweights: a calm building has never blocked anybody, and 67,000 is Golding's round figure rather than an attendance count.
So how loud does Vaught-Hemingway need to be? Tell us in the comments.
Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy.
#OleMiss #HottyToddy #PeteGolding #OleMissFootball #LSU #SEC #VaughtHemingway
CHAPTERS —
0:00 Cold Open And Today's Two Takes
0:51 The Snap Count — 25 Snaps, Then 70
2:20 Kalshi
2:47 Make Him A Pocket Passer