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Lane Kiffin Poaches Alabama’s Defensive Coordinator, per Report

After working with Nick Saban as Alabama’s defensive coordinator for the last four years, Pete Golding is reportedly heading to Ole Miss to take the same position, according to ESPN’s Chris Low.

This comes just weeks after he said before the team’s Sugar Bowl matchup that he “absolutely” planned to return to the Crimson Tide. His contract was through February 2024 after singing a three-year extension in ’21.

During the same December media availability, Golding was asked about his long-term coaching plans, to which he said, in part, “I don’t really get caught up in it.