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By Hunt Palmer
It appears fences have been mended.
Four years after winning a wrongful termination against LSU and 18 months after that ruling was reversed, James Cregg is headed back to work for the program. Pete Nakos of On3 is reporting that Cregg will join LSU’s staff following Ole Miss’s playoff run. He’s currently an analyst for the Rebels.
LSU is currently expected to bring back OL assistant James Cregg following the end of the Ole Miss season, sources tell @On3sports.
Cregg was the OL coach at LSU during the 2019 season when the Tigers won the Joe Moore Award. Was an analyst at Ole Miss in 2025.… pic.twitter.com/Q0odOHL9A6
— Pete Nakos (@PeteNakos) December 31, 2025
Cregg was hired initially by LSU in 2018 where he helped mold the Joe Moore Award winning offensive line of 2019. He was fired for cause in 2020 during the COVID pandemic for recruiting violations.
He worked in the NFL for three seasons including 2024 as the Las Vegas Raiders offensive line coach before joining the Ole Miss staff.
During those three years, he was awarded nearly $500,000 in his wrongful termination suit, but the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that ruling. The reversal was held up by the Louisiana State Supreme Court by a 6-1 vote.
Cregg claimed he told a recruit’s mother to “stop by” as she looked at moving into his neighborhood but did not have any contact with the student-athlete during the dead period. He later admitted that was false.
The case was settled in favor of LSU in June of 2024.
Five Tiger offensive linemen from the 2025 team have declared their intentions to enter the transfer portal leaving the position group critically thin.
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