Lane Kiffin teased the move Tuesday.
By Wednesday afternoon, the word was out.
Ole Miss, which has experienced unprecedented success the past two years under Kiffin, has once again fortified the football program's staff.
Sources confirm to FootballScoop that former NFL head coach Joe Judge has joined Kiffin's Ole Miss coaching staff in an off-the-field, senior analyst-type role.
Kiffin had been asked about adding coaches and players from Alabama and/or the Nick Saban Tree; Judge spent three seasons under Saban at Alabama from 2009-11.
"There's going to be another one here in the next day or two that I think you're going to know really well," Kiffin said, obviously alluding to Judge. "It's going to be the same situation."
The news also was reported by multiple outlets in Mississippi.
Kiffin also had discussed a new addition to the Ole Miss personnel/scouting department with deep NFL roots.
"I just continue to try to evolve to where I think it (the sport of college football) is and where it's going," Kiffin said Tuesday of the addition of NFL scouting veteran Mike Williams, which was first reported by Matt Zenitz of 247Sports and confirmed by FootballScoop. "I just try to say, 'OK, this is what it is' and look at things a different way and you need to have really good personnel people because now you've got, like the NFL, you've got all these investment pieces where people are paying players.
"So, another evaluation and a really good evaluator that's got NFL background that (Jim) Harbaugh signed off on with me is really important."
A Mississippi State grad, Judge was the head coach for two seasons of the New York Giants (2020-21) and had two different stints under Bill Belichick with the New England Patriots that spanned almost a decade.