With Lane Kiffin bolting for the LSU Tigers, Pete Golding slid into the driver’s seat. The newly appointed Ole Miss Rebels head coach wasted no time patching holes in the staff. Instead of rolling the dice on a stranger, Golding turned to a familiar face from the Rebels’ past.

“Ready to get to work 💪 @coach_jdbaker,” tweeted the Ole Miss Football page on X on December 9.

“I’m so fired up to come back home and be the offensive coordinator at Ole Miss,” the tweet was followed by the newly appointed offensive coordinator, John David Baker’s statement. “My three years in Oxford made a monumental impact on my career and the chance to come back to lead this unit means the world to me.”

David Baker spent three years at Ole Miss, working as co-offensive coordinator from 2022 to 23 and tight en

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