It hasn’t even been a month, and head coach Lane Kiffin is already reshaping LSU. To jump-start the Tigers’ success, he targeted a familiar name: Charlie Weis Jr. The former Ole Miss offensive coordinator has signed with LSU, becoming the highest-paid offensive coordinator in the SEC.

Charlie Weis Jr. and LSU finalized a three-year agreement during a meeting with the university’s board of supervisors. The deal will pay him $2.5 million annually through 2028, making him the highest-paid offensive coordinator in the nation, surpassing Notre Dame’s Mike Denbrock, who earns about $2.1 million per year. The contract also includes an annual lock-in period to review and adjust his compensation.

LSU retains the option of increasing Charlie Weis Jr.’s salary if necessary, which could push his pay beyond that of any other SEC offensive coordinator before incentives. The first lock-in review is scheduled for March 1, 2026. For now, Weis Jr. will still call plays for Ole Miss in the playoff, as both permitted him to finish the postseason.

LSU’s pursuit of Charlie Weis Jr. is well justified. He helped Lane Kiffin turn Ole Miss into one of the nation’s most dangerous offenses. The Rebels rank tied for third in passing yards (309.6 per game) and eleventh in scoring (37.3 points per game) nationally.

On the other side, Ole Miss has found their replacement for Charlie Weis Jr. in East Carolina Pirates’ offensive coordinator John David Baker. Baker is not new to Oxford, as he served as the co-offensive coordinator from 2022 to 2023 while also taking tight ends coach duties. He then tried his hand at the offensive coordinator position at East Carolina Pirates.

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Under him, East Carolina became one of the top offensive sides in the AAC, averaging 464.7 yards per game this season. This made them the league’s third-best offense, behind North Texas (504.3) and South Florida (501.7). Baker also guided the offense to top-25 national rankings in both passing yards (16th at 280.7 yards per game) and scoring (24th at 33.5 points per game).

With the Weis Jr. acquisition, Lane Kiffin is now looking to bring other familiar faces to Baton Rouge.

After Charlie Weis Jr., could Ed Orgeron be next for LSU?

Lane Kiffin’s LSU era is officially underway. He has brought in staff members from Ole Miss, while retaining a few from LSU’s previous regime. Amid all the changes, speculation surfaced about one particularly familiar figure: Ed Orgeron. The former LSU head coach knows the program inside and out, having led the Tigers from 2016 to 2021. Still, a reunion appears to be nothing more than a fever dream for LSU fans.

After publicly confirming that he wants to return to coaching, Orgeron drew interest from several programs, including LSU, before the school ultimately settled on Kiffin. Because Kiffin and Orgeron worked together at Tennessee and USC, talk of a possible reunion gained momentum. But Orgeron shut down the idea, even revealing that Kiffin had already approached him about joining his staff last season.

“He called last year,” Orgeron said in an episode of Bussin’ With The Boys. “He had called and said he was going to get a job, and he wanted to know if I wanted to go. I said, ‘You know what? I’m not ready to do that, and I have three boys coaching right now.’ And I was still in the process of getting them going on a solid foundation.

He never called me and said, ‘You want to come?’ I never called him and said, ‘I want to go.”

A reunion between the two at LSU could have created something promising for the program.