Good morning, Everydayers. It’s a He Said What Tuesday. Pete Golding met the media Monday and did something you don’t hear often after a 35-point loss: he put it on everybody, starting with the coaches, play calls included. Today’s LOOM Flagship goes through every word that matters, who won’t be in Norman, and Ole Miss basketball tonight. But first, a legend has something to say. Four days to Oklahoma.
🏆 Legend Speaks: John Fourcade
Now you can be on the headsets and discuss things with him, but let him go do it.
John Fourcade, on Pete Golding and the defensive play calls
Ole Miss legend John Fourcade joined Steven on Monday after Georgia 42, Ole Miss 7, and he didn’t hedge. His fix starts with who calls the defense. Pete Golding is the head coach and the defensive play caller, and Fourcade wants him to hand off the second job.
Then Fourcade summed up the season in one line: “They have a great offense and an average defense.” And his warning for Saturday, on Oklahoma’s quarterback: “Catch him when he’s hot, you’re in trouble. Catch him when he’s not, you got a chance.”
Twenty-four hours later, Golding stood at the podium and said there are times “from a calling standpoint that we need to put them in better positions.” He didn’t say he’s giving up the calls. But he put them on the list. Watch Fourcade’s full episode.
☕ Morning Coffee
“We Didn’t Coach Well.”
That’s Pete Golding on Georgia 42-7, and it’s where today’s LOOM Flagship starts. Three things from He Said What Tuesday:
- Golding owned it, play calls included. “We didn’t coach well, we didn’t play well,” he said, and you don’t lose 42-7 on one side of the ball or with just the players or just the coaches. He took it back to the first snap, a zone cut Ole Miss worked all week and then misfit, and said Georgia hit 11 explosive plays for 299 yards. Steven’s read on air: “You are what your sample size is,” and nine games in, this defense has been bad more often than good.
- Patrick Kutas and Kewan Lacy are out at Oklahoma. Golding said Kutas, the starting right guard, “got banged up pretty good,” with guys bumping inside, and Lacy “would not be playing this weekend.” It’s Shekai Mills-Knight’s backfield behind a shuffled line, against a team Golding says wants to “shrink the game” the way Georgia did. He’s already studied Jason Witten’s version of the offense: fewer post-snap reads, more of the quarterback’s legs, and the tight end “a piece of the package.”
- The speech about tape, the portal and money. Asked how you refocus a team with three losses, Golding said he told his players that everybody benefits from good tape, whether you’re a freshman or a senior, chasing the draft, trying to be retained or trying to transfer. Coming back, he said, means “negotiating more money.” Steven called it the most honest November speech he’s heard from a coach, and it’s the same three-game audit this show laid out Monday.
🏈 The Numbers
- 11 for 299: Georgia’s explosive plays and the yards they produced, per Golding
- 63-1: Georgia when it holds a team under 100 rushing yards, per Golding. Ole Miss ran for 66
- 2-0: the turnover battle Saturday. Golding: it “wasn’t close”
- 9: Trinidad Chambliss interceptions, which Golding broke down as end-of-game throws, batted balls, a drop and a couple he forced
- 2: starters out at Oklahoma, Kutas and Lacy
- 4: days to Oklahoma
Figures marked “per Golding” are his, from Monday’s press conference.
🎤 What They Said
We didn’t coach well, we didn’t play well. And that’s the outcome you’re going to get when you do that.
Pete Golding, Monday
If our focus starts getting into the future, like, that’s where the fear component comes from.
Pete Golding, on three losses and the playoff
Everybody benefits by you going and putting a really good product on tape.
Pete Golding, on the last three games
You are what your sample size is.
Steven Willis, on the Ole Miss defense, on today’s LOOM Flagship
🏀 Tonight: Southeastern Louisiana at Ole Miss
Ole Miss is 2-0 and scoring 95.5 points a game after beating Alcorn State 99-58 and Central Arkansas 92-60, the first time since 2012-13 the Rebels have opened with back-to-back 90-point games. Southeastern Louisiana (1-1) visits the Pavilion tonight at 7:30 p.m. CT.
The name to know is Patton Pinkins, who went 4 of 5 from three on Friday and passed John Matthews for the best career three-point percentage in Ole Miss history. He’s 7 of 9 from deep this season. Budd Clark passed 500 career assists in the same game. A win tonight would be Chris Beard’s 299th. Friday’s recap on the Hub.
🔮 Next: Oklahoma
| Matchup | Ole Miss (6-3, 4-3 SEC) at Oklahoma |
| Kickoff | Saturday, Nov. 14 · 3:15 p.m. CT / 4:15 p.m. ET |
| Where | Norman, Okla. |
| Out for Ole Miss | RG Patrick Kutas, RB Kewan Lacy |
| Last meeting | Ole Miss 34, Oklahoma 26, in Norman, 2025 |
Then Wofford at home on Nov. 21 and the Egg Bowl on Friday, Nov. 27. Tomorrow on Locked On Ole Miss: a look at Oklahoma under Jason Witten, and what Ole Miss has to do differently in Norman.
📰 New On The Hub
Shekai Mills-Knight Was The Only Rebel Who Finished A Drive, And He Should Be Starting At Oklahoma.
The LOOM Model Still Likes Ole Miss At Oklahoma After Missing Georgia. The SEC power ratings after Week 11.
📻 Yesterday On Locked On Ole Miss
🔗 Five Clicks
1. Everything Pete Golding said Monday (On3)
The full press conference, if you want every answer and not just the ones we picked.
2. Kutas and Lacy ruled out for Oklahoma (HottyToddy.com)
What losing the starting right guard means for a line that has already been reshuffled this year.
3. Ole Miss turns to Oklahoma with playoff hopes dashed (Oxford Eagle)
Chambliss: “I don’t think this ruins our season.” Plus where ESPN’s FPI still has the Rebels.
4. The playoff is going to 24 teams in 2027 (CBS Sports)
What the reported format means for conference title games and home playoff games. It doesn’t change this season.
5. Southeastern Louisiana wins at Little Rock (FOX Sports)
Tonight’s opponent, coming off an 83-79 road win behind 21 points from Jackson Furman.
💬 Join the Everydayers
Fourcade says hand off the defensive play calls. Golding says the calls were part of it. Should Golding keep calling the defense in Norman, or give it up? Make your case in the LOOM Private Discord. It’s free to join, and the Oklahoma game thread is open.
Everything else lives at olemisshub.com, and you can take your fandom to the next level with the Everydayer Club.
Four days to Oklahoma. Tonight, the Pavilion. Hotty Toddy. 🦈
