Pete Golding's last on-record remarks are the Sept 26 postgame in Gainesville. That is seven days, in the one week of the season with the most time in it. Since then Ole Miss has put exactly two people in front of a microphone, and both are players — Patrick Kutas and Will Echoles, in the Sept 30 bye-week practice report. The football archive on the school's site carries no coach press conference, no transcript and no availability advisory. Two headlines this week are built to look otherwise. SI's "Pete Golding Hints Ole Miss Could Make Personnel Changes During Bye Week" (Sept 29) runs quotes that trace to the Sept 26 postgame and never says when he said them. The same outlet's "Golding Challenges Will Echoles, Kam Franklin" contains no direct Golding quote at all. And then the part nobody in this state mentioned: SI's First-Year Coaches Report Card, Tim Capurso, Sept 29, graded Golding a B+ three days after a 24-point loss, and wrote that the bye arrived at an opportune time. The honest counterweight, said on air: neither story is false, the quotes are real, and a bye week is the one week a staff is allowed to disappear and work. Let me know in the comments whether a B+ is too generous — and send this to the person who already made up their mind. Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #PeteGolding #SEC #CollegeFootball #RebelNation
Pete Golding's last on-record remarks are the Sept 26 postgame in Gainesville. That is seven days, in the one week of the season with the most time in it.
Since then Ole Miss has put exactly two people in front of a microphone, and both are players — Patrick Kutas and Will Echoles, in the Sept 30 bye-week practice report. The football archive on the school's site carries no coach press conference, no transcript and no availability advisory.
Two headlines this week are built to look otherwise. SI's "Pete Golding Hints Ole Miss Could Make Personnel Changes During Bye Week" (Sept 29) runs quotes that trace to the Sept 26 postgame and never says when he said them. The same outlet's "Golding Challenges Will Echoles, Kam Franklin" contains no direct Golding quote at all.
And then the part nobody in this state mentioned: SI's First-Year Coaches Report Card, Tim Capurso, Sept 29, graded Golding a B+ three days after a 24-point loss, and wrote that the bye arrived at an opportune time.
The honest counterweight, said on air: neither story is false, the quotes are real, and a bye week is the one week a staff is allowed to disappear and work.
Let me know in the comments whether a B+ is too generous — and send this to the person who already made up their mind.
Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy.
#OleMiss #HottyToddy #PeteGolding #SEC #CollegeFootball #RebelNation