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By Nelson Espinal
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Ole Miss is adding general manager Austin Thomas to the staff in Oxford after spending two seasons with the LSU Tigers, according to reports.
Thomas joined LSU from Ole Miss back in 2024 as LSU's general manager and senior associate athletics director. However, he is being replaced by Billy Glasscock, whom Lane Kiffin has brought from Ole Miss to LSU.
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Now, Thomas heads back to the Rebels after working under Kiffin from 2022 to 2023 at the school.
The staff musical chairs started back in November, when Kiffin decided his future following an intense courtship from Florida and LSU.
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The former USC head coach left Ole Miss for LSU, making a seismic move that altered the college football landscape.
With him, he took a handful of his staff at Ole Miss, including offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. Since his departure, Ole Miss has appointed defensive coordinator Pete Golding as the full-time head coach.
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Despite the Rebels being in the College Football Playoffs, Golding has started building out his staff, hiring Kelvin Bolden away from LSU as coordinator of recruiting strategy, and now Thomas becomes another key member of the brain trust.
While the split between the school and coach was messy, Kiffin has recently extended an olive branch to the program and team. He has allowed Weis, among other coaches, to finish the postseason run at Ole Miss.
They are preparing the players and the team's game plan for Saturday's contest against Tulane before re-joining Kiffin for next season.
"The guys that came back to lead those rooms are great men," Golding said. "There's nothing, prior to them leaving, where we questioned if they were going to coach in the (CFP) game or not. The question was going to be where are they coaching next year."
As the staff members swap programs and become more intertwined, the anticipation for next season's clash in Oxford grows all the more.
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