New hires mean Pete Golding is nowhere near done poaching LSU staff from Lane Kiffin

Pete Golding is giving a fitting reply to the staff poaching cold war Lane Kiffin launched when he left for Death Valley.

By now, Kiffin might already have signed every coach he can from Ole Miss, but Golding looks like he is just getting started.

Staffer after staffer from LSU is making their way to the Grove, almost like a series of dominoes. The latest addition to this list came this weekend.

The Rebels welcomed Jai Choudhary, an LSU staffer who worked for the Tigers in 2025 after a 3-year run with Ole Miss (2022-24), back to Oxford.

At Ole Miss's front office, Choudhary will be taking over the reins as Director of Player Personnel.

Besides him, the front office had another fresh face from LSU in Jake Sugarman. He will be making his way to the Grove as the Rebels' new scouting director from UCLA, where he shifted after his time with LSU.

The LSU-to-Ole Miss pipeline remains wide open as Choudhary and Sugarman join the ranks of former Tigers' front office staffers, including general manager Austin Thomas and recruiting strategist Kevin Bolden, already tag-teaming with Golding.

Besides them, Frank Wilson and L’Damian Washington will be there on the training ground from Golding's 'LSU-heavy' staff.

How the altogether revamped staff comes together will only be known in the 2026 season. Since the Rebs made it to the College Football Playoff in 2025, they already have a massive bar to live upto.

And we can only imagine what the Magnolia Bowl will be like the next season!