School soccer information is nonstop, and we’re breaking all of it down week by week this season.
This is the most recent on what’s occurring round school soccer getting into Week 13:
LSU contract proposal
The Tigers are providing Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin a seven-year contract value no less than $90 million, in keeping with Yahoo Sports activities. The report notes that LSU, which is keen to provide the Rebels’ head coach NIL roster investments exceeding $25 million, is “searching for a dedication” from Kiffin within the close to future. LSU fired head coach Brian Kelly after three-plus seasons in October and has centered its head-coaching search on Kiffin, who has racked up a 54-19 document at Ole Miss since changing into its head coach for the 2020 season. The Rebels are 10-1 and ranked No. 6 within the nation this season. Kiffin has additionally reportedly been pursued by Florida for its head-coaching emptiness.
Ole Miss supplies assertion on HC Lane Kiffin
Keith Carter, Ole Miss’ vice chancellor for intercollegiate athletics, launched an announcement about head coach Lane Kiffin’s future on Nov. 21, saying that an “announcement” on his future shall be made on the Saturday after the staff’s Egg Bowl matchup towards Mississippi State on Nov. 29).
Kiffin is wanted for the head-coaching vacancies at LSU and Florida, together with his household reportedly visiting each campuses earlier this week. The Rebels’ head coach denied that he was given an ultimatum from Ole Miss. The Rebels are the sixth-ranked staff within the nation with a 10-1 total document and 6-1 in SEC play this season. Ole Miss is a mixed 54-19 beneath Kiffin since 2020, together with 4 double-digit win seasons.
Baylor sticking with HC Dave Aranda
The Bears introduced that they are staying the course with their head coach in 2026. “After cautious analysis and consideration, we now have determined to retain Coach Dave Aranda because the chief of our soccer program,” Baylor president Linda A. Livingstone stated in an announcement. “We acknowledge this resolution will generate robust opinions. Let me be clear: Baylor expects excellence, accountability and competitiveness on the highest degree. We’re not complacent, and we aren’t settling for mediocrity.”
This resolution comes within the wake of Mack Rhoades, Baylor’s athletic director, stepping down. The Bears are 5-5 total and 3-4 in Huge 12 play this season, good for eleventh within the convention. In Aranda’s six seasons as Baylor’s head coach (2020-present), the Bears are a mixed 36-35, highlighted by profitable the Huge 12 in 2021 — a season the place they completed with a 12-2 document. Baylor has failed to achieve a bowl recreation twice beneath Aranda (2020 and 2023), and it will be 3 times if it fails to win one among its final two video games this season.
Head coach Ryan Day didn’t rule out star wideouts Smith and Tate for this weekend when the top-ranked Buckeyes play host to Rutgers, however he additionally didn’t wish to go into specifics on their availability.
“Our coverage is we don’t focus on specifics on accidents, and when you begin taking place a bit bit right here, a bit bit there, you possibly can create an issue,” Day stated Tuesday. “So, for plenty of causes, we don’t focus on these issues. We put out the report the day of the sport, however I can inform you they’re in nice spirits. The medical workers is working onerous. We’ll take it day after day and see how they arrive in every day, however they’re working onerous to get again on the sphere.”
Tate missed the final two video games with an harm that has not been recognized. The junior remains to be fifth within the Huge Ten with 88.9 receiving yards per recreation. He was listed as out on the pregame availability report Saturday when the Buckeyes (10-0, 7-0) beat UCLA. Smith was labeled questionable however ended up beginning the sport and making an acrobatic, one-handed catch alongside the sideline on the opening drive. The sophomore caught 4 passes for 40 yards within the first half and didn’t play within the second after being seen limping late within the first. Day didn’t disclose what he was coping with.
The Wolverines do not anticipate injured operating again Haynes to play this week at Maryland or subsequent week towards top-ranked OSU. Head coach Sherrone Moore stated Monday that Haynes might be out for the common season. Haynes ran for 857 yards with 7.1 yards per carry and 10 touchdowns in seven video games this season. The Alabama switch has not performed since he had 26 carries for 152 yards with two touchdowns on Oct. 25 in a win at Michigan State. He has been on Michigan’s sideline on a scooter, preserving weight off his proper foot that was in a protecting boot.
Jordan Marshall, the Wolverines’ different standout operating again, had 142 yards dashing and two touchdowns earlier than a shoulder harm knocked him out of Saturday’s win over Northwestern. Moore stated Marshall’s X-rays had been damaging, including he is day after day. Bryson Kuzdzal, who had 15 carries for 53 yards towards the Wildcats, could turn out to be the staff’s beginning operating again this week.
Iamaleava is taken into account day-to-day whereas coping with a concussion that saved him out of the Bruins’ blowout loss to No. 1 Ohio State. There’s an opportunity he may follow Tuesday, however his standing relies on how his remedy and testing goes, interim head coach Tim Skipper stated Monday. Iamaleava was injured in a loss to Nebraska on Nov. 8 and concussion signs later appeared, which dominated him out final Saturday. The extremely touted Tennessee switch was changed by redshirt sophomore Luke Duncan, who went 16-for23 for 154 yards and a landing. Duncan came upon the night time earlier than that he could be beginning and he obtained assist from Iamaleava.
In different information, exterior linebackers Reuben Unije and Garrett DiGiorgio are additionally thought of day-to-day.
Daniels will sit out towards Mercer on Saturday to protect a yr of eligibility. Interimhead coach D.J. Durkin stated Monday that Jackson Arnold and freshman Deuce Knight will play towards the Bears, however he didn’t title a starter.
Daniels, a senior switch from Stanford, has suited up 3 times for the Tigers (4-6, 1-6 SEC) this season and might solely play in yet another recreation to redshirt and retain one other yr of eligibility. With Auburn ending at dwelling towards No. 10 Alabama, Durkin opted to maintain Daniels off the sphere till the rivalry often known as the Iron Bowl.
“You will have an ideal duty as a head coach to do what’s greatest on your soccer staff and your program always,” Durkin stated. “That’s what you had been employed to do. That is what you should do. I additionally really feel that you’ve an ideal duty to the younger males that you just coach and to their households to do what’s greatest for them. Anytime you possibly can thread that needle the place these two issues align, that’s the very best and what makes it work. I feel on this case we now have that. The most effective factor for Ashton is to have the ability to protect his redshirt yr and have the ability to come again and play one other yr.”
The sophomore defensive again is now not on the Vols’ roster, per ESPN, and he wasn’t current for the staff’s win towards New Mexico on Saturday. Carter was advised he was not going to play within the recreation for disciplinary causes however was nonetheless anticipated to be in attendance. He then introduced on social media that he would miss the remainder of the season with harm, and that he would enter the switch portal on Jan. 2. Carter performed in 9 video games in 2025, with 25 mixed tackles, 4.5 tackles for a loss and a sack. He additionally returned 11 punts for a median of 13.2 yards per return.
“On the finish of the day, there’s an ordinary you have to meet to be in that locker room, so he was not out on the sphere with us,” head coach Josh Heupel stated after the sport. “That shall be my final response to something associated to that.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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