Pete Golding has no plans on being a 'Twitter guy' as Ole Miss transitions from Lane Kiffin

It’s a new era at Ole Miss with Pete Golding taking over from Lane Kiffin as the head coach. That also looks like a new era on social media, as Golding says he has no plans of being a Twitter guy now.

Prior to Golding, Kiffin was a heavy social media user and, in general, became a very public-facing figure. That let him stamp his own personality on the program for the sake of notoriety. That’s not how Golding plans on operating, though. Instead, he wants that notoriety to come from the program’s success on the field.

“I think everybody in the country is talking about Ole Miss football,” Pete Golding said. “Why? Because they’re in the Playoff. People talk about people that win. I don’t care what they dress like. What they do is their notoriety outside of things, absolutely. But if you win games and you compete for championships and you put guys in the first round of the draft and they get drafted and you recruit at a really high level, right? And you recruit good players on signing day, then they’re talking about the football program, for the football program, for the development of the players, for winning football games and continuing to do that.”

The way Kiffin left, and the fact that he left for LSU, certainly left a sour taste in the mouths of folks in Oxford. However, it’s undeniable that he did also find that success on the field, now getting Ole Miss to the College Football Playoff for the first time. Golding has the chance to build on that now and do it his own way. However, he also knows that success is what matters the most, not his branding.

“So no, I’m not I’m not a Twitter guy. I won’t be a Twitter guy. Right. So, I’ve got my new contract. They can fire me at any point. My ass will be at the beach. All right. So, again, I am who I am. We’re going to recruit really good players. We’re going to have NFL style systems,” Golding said. “That aren’t going to change the building of systems. We’re going to hold our guys to a high standard just like we have. Right. And, obviously, we’re going to win a bunch of games in the process.”

Pete Golding has been thrown into the fire. His first game as the head coach at Ole Miss is going to be a College Football Playoff game against Tulane. Ole Miss hopes that game will launch them into a deep run this postseason.