Ole Miss to hire WKU's Keynodo Hudson as cornerbacks coach

Ole Miss has hired Western Kentucky cornerback coach Keynodo Hudson for the same position, On3’s Matt Zenitz reports. Hudson said Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin have history dating back to their USC days in 2012 and 2013.

He was also a defensive administrative assistant and CB coach while at FAU in 2017 and 2018 before moving on to Illinois and eventually Western Kentucky. At WKU, he spearheaded a defensive backs group that ranked No. 1 in Conference-USA in interceptions last season and No. 2 in 2022.

Hudson will replace former CB coach Sam Carter who left Oxford for the same position at Purdue earlier this month.

Paul Finebaum reveals Lane Kiffin’s true goal with additions of Spencer Sanders, Walker Howard

The Portal King struck again this offseason, as Lane Kiffin made multiple splashes with some transfer additions. Notably, he created the deepest quarterback room in college football, adding Spencer Sanders and Walker Howard to a position that group that already had Jaxson Dart in place. But SEC Network analyst Paul Finebaum believes those moves by Kiffin had a hidden goal behind them. 

Ole Miss started the season with a perfect 7-0 record, including a 3-0 start against SEC opponents. The Rebels then lost at LSU before bouncing back with a win over Texas A&Mto reach 8-1 overall. That game in College Station would be the last time that Kiffin led Ole Miss to victory, as the Rebels lost their final four games to end the year. 

By making such a splash, all of the talk around Ole Miss is about the loaded quarterback room. In Finebaum’s eyes, that move by Kiffin was completely by design. 

“Well you could look at it a couple of different ways,” Finebaum said Monday on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning. “He’s got the best quarterback room in the country, or he’s got problems ahead. I think in Lane’s case, he’s trying to mask a really bad finish to the season and a subpar recruiting class. 

“I mean this is a guy that always has one finger on the send button on Twitter, and he’s very cognitive of what goes on on social media, he knows what’s said about him and he’s always trying to change the narrative. And I think by getting these two players, he has done that. But you’re right, anybody who can’t start asking questions about what he has is foolish.”