Printed 4:27 pm Tuesday, December 2, 2025
By Isaac Streeter<\/a><\/strong>
Oregon State formally launched its thirty third head coach, JaMarcus Shephard, on Tuesday in Corvallis. The previous Alabama assistant is heading again to Tuscaloosa to rejoin the Crimson Tide this week.
Alabama, at present No. 9 within the Faculty Soccer Playoff rankings as of Tuesday night, performs for the SEC Championship on Saturday. The Crimson Tide face No. 3 Georgia at Atlanta\u2019s Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the SEC\u2019s crown. It’s the fourth time since 2018 that Alabama faces the Bulldogs within the recreation, profitable all three prior matchups.
Shephard, the Tide\u2019s co-offensive coordinator, assistant head coach and vast receivers coach, will likely be with them for it.
\u201cI\u2019m going to get my household again to Alabama, to allow them to proceed with faculty and whatnot. And so, I will likely be again there serving to (Alabama) put together for Saturday,\u201d Shephard mentioned.
If Alabama wins its twelfth SEC championship recreation since 1992 on Saturday, head coach Kalen DeBoer\u2019s squad is a shoe-in for the Faculty Soccer Playoff. And even when the Tide suffers its third lack of the 2025 season, they personal an in depth resume (sans a week-one loss to Florida State) to crack the 12-team discipline.
So, then what? Would Shephard proceed to teach at Alabama by means of everything of its potential playoff berth? Or will the Beavers\u2019 new head man commerce crimson and white for orange and black for good? It appears neither Shephard or Oregon State athletics director Scott Barnes have discovered the reply but.
\u201cTo be fairly sincere about it, there\u2019s received to be conversations had with management (at each Alabama and Oregon State) to make all these selections,\u201d Shephard mentioned. \u201cWe\u2019ll have these conversations right here in brief order (and) make certain we\u2019re doing the suitable factor for everybody concerned\u2026 So we\u2019ll work out what that appears like so that everyone feels comfy.\u201d
Barnes echoed Shephard\u2019s feedback shortly thereafter, however sounded much less considering having his new head coach elsewhere for for much longer.
\u201cWe\u2019ll discuss it,\u201d Barnes mentioned. \u201cWe actually need to give him the chance to teach within the SEC championship recreation. We\u2019ll decide the remainder quickly.\u201d
Coaches\u2019 job mobility and half-in-half-out method to the postseason is on the forefront of the school football-watching zeitgeist this cycle.
Newly-introduced LSU head coach Lane Kiffin \u2014 who departed the No. 6-ranked Ole Miss Rebels this weekend \u2014 is essentially in charge. The desire-they-won\u2019t-they saga between Kiffin, the Rebs and the Tigers occupied a novel area of venn diagram between actuality tv and carnival act. Kiffin\u2019s exit from Oxford ended with a press release shared to his social media accounts stating that Rebels athletics director Keith Carter denied Kiffin\u2019s \u201crequest\u201d to stick with Ole Miss by means of the postseason. Kiffin\u2019s offensive coordinator, Charlie Weiss Jr., will go together with him to LSU whereas staying with the Rebels for this 12 months\u2019s playoff.
However in Kiffin\u2019s \u2014 and Shephard\u2019s \u2014 protection, they aren\u2019t the primary coaches to stay round for the postseason.
Then-Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Good accepted Georgia\u2019s head teaching place in December of 2015, however caught round to see the Crimson Tide by means of to a CFP nationwide championship win over Clemson. This 12 months, Tulane head coach John Sumrall\u2019s new boss, the College of Florida, will enable Sumrall to stick with the Inexperienced Wave till their season ends. Tulane (10-2) performs North Texas within the American championship on Saturday and is the playoff choice committee\u2019s projected fifth automatic-bid.
And even simply down the highway from Corvallis, the No. 5 Oregon Geese have comparable decisions to make.
Kentucky hired Oregon\u2019s offensive coordinator<\/a>, Will Stein, as its subsequent head coach on Monday night. Oregon\u2019s defensive coordinator, Tosh Lupoi, is reportedly the front-running candidate<\/a> for Cal\u2019s head coach emptiness. The Geese (11-1) all however assured a second-straight playoff berth with their win over Washington on Saturday, however haven\u2019t but introduced whether or not Stein, and presumably Lupoi, will proceed to teach the workforce.
However make no mistake, Shephard desires to be an Oregon State Beaver. He made that emphatically clear Tuesday.
\u201cI do know there have been plenty of people who wished to be right here,\u201d Shephard mentioned about accepting the job. \u201cHowever I wished to be right here worse\u2026 And I didn\u2019t simply need a shot, I wished to be at Oregon State College.\u201d
 
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