The Josh Innes Show - Boo Corrigan Presser Part 2

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

I enjoy the analysts who love to be angry about how a coach can leave a job but players can't leave a school. First off, players can and do leave all the time. But, these dopes ignore one of the most important factors as to why fans take issue with players leaving versus the coaches... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk, business. You're just a jilted lover, bro. And I'm not saying this is some LSU guy. I don't even give a shit about LSU basketball. I certainly don't give a shit about Will Wade. I don't like the guy at all. Like, I like Lane Kiffin. Like, I think that, like, Lane's circumstance,

like people are trying to compare the two things, and I just think it's a totally different universe. You have a guy that had a job for six years. I truly don't think that Lane thought that team was going to the college football playoff. They did. He didn't think they were going to continue to win there. They did. And he was stuck.

I think from the jury. jump he didn't want to be at Ole Miss. I say from the jump, but from like early last year where Brian Kelly's being fired, Florida's open, like I think he wanted to get out of Ole Miss for whatever reason. At Medcan, we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation of good health from the big milestones to the quiet winds. That's why our annual health assessment offers a physician-led full-body checkup that provides a clear picture of your health today and may uncover early signs of conditions like heart disease and cancer. The healthier you means more moments to cherish.

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It understands that our fan base has very high expectations. We have high expectations for a school that's really never won shit outside of that one fluky year back in 1983. Outside of that, we have extremely high expectations here at NC State. We're not Duke or Carolina, but we have high expectations here too, pal. And can't embrace that. I believe everyone felt this year being in the Lenovo Center what this can be. and with five sellouts this year. You did it.

To hear the roof. We know why you're mad now because this guy sold out five games for you and people were into it. Now you lost him. Like, I get, you're in a tough spot, bro. You were in a very uninviable spot. And I get that and I respect where you are on this. It sucks. But now you're having to be full of shit to your people.

Again, two days ago, you're begging this guy to stay. Now he's a shitty coach and he's a weasel. is not tough enough to coach you guys. Like, anybody with a brain can look through this. Your fans will buy it because your fans are dipshits because fans are dipshits. At different times during different games because of our fan base, because of our students, and their ability to connect, that's what our mission is and that's what we're going to accomplish. Questions. You guys are waiting.

We've got a microphone camera to bring to you. Let's see what some questions are. Let's see what old booze has to say. I get boo. He looks like Southern scholarly, like Southern professor, like, you know, like laid back like Southern professor. How much is a buyout? Are we good? Yeah.

So the buyout, we, everything's in negotiation, right, as you're looking at everything that's going on. I do appreciate being led into the insights of this. This is interesting to me. As we were talking through this, I believe everyone knows. prior to April 2nd, the buyout was going to be $5 million. After April 2nd, the buyout was going to move to $3 million. We settled at a $4 million buyout. Like an LSU.

It's just like, here's $4 million for this buyout. There's $50 million for Brian Kelly's buyout. Here's $100 million to pay Lane Kiff. And our women's basketball coach makes a billion bucks. Our baseball coach that just won two titles doing this. Like, the state of Louisiana, this is not false, is poor. It is uneducated and poor, yet all the money in the world is being found for LSU athletics. It's pretty fucking wild.

And we did that is to pick up the days in between today, which I think is at 26, right? Today's a 26 until the second as opposed to having no wait until the second. So for us being able to move forward was just as not just as important, but we understood the dollar amount versus the value of time. and we chose to settle at $4 million. Get ahead of lead. I got more commercials here. I did this on the fly. I didn't have time to, you know, record a 25-minute piece of audio to use.

So I'm just doing this on YouTube. I think there's a question you need to ask LSU and you need to ask Coach Wade. I've got my own thoughts on where we are. What are your thoughts? And by the way, North Carolina State's a better job than LSU. I mean, they clearly care more about it. That's not. I mean, look, I lived in Baton Rouge for 13 years of my life.

I loved going to LSU basketball. I was there for John Brady and they went to the final four and there were moments that it was fun. LSU basketball, there have been two times that it's really captivated the people in Louisiana. The Dale Brown era, you know, the 80s and then the shack, early 90s. And then Will Wade kind of captivated them a little bit too when he was there. And there was, you know, the final four year with John Brady, but no one fully embraced LSU basketball at that point either. I mean, he was fired a year later. I know that the number of times we had conversations about the job, including one time where it was, do we need to talk about this? And the answer was no.

I believe a number of people may have been at the ACC tournament where the answer was a definitive. I'm going to be here after we lost in the AC tournament to Virginia. It does suck to be in a profession where these guys just are full of shit, but you have to accept that that's the profession you're in. People are dishonest. You know? I mean, what do you want? I saw Jay Billis, all these righteous, you know, these indignant people like Jay Billis who like to play the angle of, oh, everybody gets mad at the players for player movement, but oh, the coach can just leave. Again, you're conveniently leaving out important information.

What is the important information that you are leaving out, Jay Billis? Well, the most important part is that there is a buyout. I don't think people give a shit if players leave. I think that's a narrative that's created by media people that want to paint fan bases largely just old white people. as racist and shit that don't want movement for young black players who are getting screwed. And while I agree with you that those dudes should be making more of the money than they are because they are the stars of the show, if your whole idea is that, oh, coaches can leave, largely, you know, white dudes, can leave older white dudes who exploit the talents of young black

players, yet everybody gets mad at the players for leaving. That's despicable. I think people just want a world where there are constantly. consequences for leaving a gig. There's a consequence for leaving that job. Your reputation takes a hit. What reputation takes a hit for any of these college players? Some of these guys play five schools in five years. No one gives a fuck, right? That's number one, right? That's just a reputation thing. But number two is there's a financial thing that happened. There's a penalty involved in this. So it is a penalty for the school. So LSU, you know, it seems like four millions of drop in the bucket for them now, wherever this money's coming from. They might just be printing money somewhere. Maybe the governor, the Wacko governor of Louisiana might be printing cash. I don't know. He might have his own mint. But the other angle is that these guys do have to pay a buyout. There is a consequence if you leave the gig.

There are consequences. Someone gets punished in this, right? Will Wade gets raked over the coals here for this 30-minute press conference, basically saying he's a liar and a scuzzy guy. That's a reputation thing he has to deal with. Rarely does a player get raked over the coals because the media is not going to fuck with the player and say the player's scummy, right? So they're just young kids chasing a dollar, right? They're those young kids, right? But what punishment is there? That's the only thing people are asking for. People want players to be held at the same standard. Because people do want to believe that when they sign a player, particularly recruit a player, that that player's going to be around and they want that player. I'm being kind of naive in Pollyanna about this, but from a fan perspective, you would really love it if a guy loved your university as much as you do, your team as much as you do. So when he commits to you and is there and he signed on the dotted line and then a year later leaves, I don't think anybody cares about that.

Like, every season is its own thing. Unless, like, there's a three-year contract and there's more of a punishment for it, which I'd be all in favor of, right? Like, I have a three-year contract here. If somebody wanted to hire me in another company, they'd have to deal with that three-year contract. They have to find their way out of it. Maybe there'd be some sort of an agreement between companies that I could leave there and that there'd be some sort of payment. I'm not that big of a deal in my contract. I mean, it's a fucking tics on a bull, a tick on a bull's ass.

So it's not that big of a deal. And it's not going to kill I-Hart if Josh Ennis doesn't exist anymore at I-Hart, you know. But, no, I think people would like to see that. This isn't hard. But the problem you run into is you get these guys like the J. Billis, who are willfully ignorant. Like, they know what they're doing and they know what they're saying. The problem is you get these guys and they want to, you know, be indignant about shit. They know what's happening.

They don't like Will Wade. Will Wade is hated. You're talking about being the bad guy. You're talking about being Scott Hall here. Say hello to the bad guy. He's a bad guy. They all hate him for a multitude of reasons. He is like their target.

And he gets that. But there are obviously, there's really one key thing that these guys ignore when they try to rally the troops on social media and act like they're down with the cause that players are getting screwed and coaches can go wherever they want. First of all, they make a straw man. That's number one. But number two, they like to ignore the fact that when a coach leaves a job, somebody pays for it. Again, that was a fairly easy way to go.

Like, he got out of the deal. But in the deal, it says there's a buyout. They have an agreement on the buyout. They buy them out. I mean, they're getting compensated for that. North Carolina State is being compensated for losing their coach. Schools aren't getting compensated. You can argue whether or not you think they deserve to.

But, like, I mean, part of it is you make an agreement. you made an agreement on something, you signed on the dotted line to come to a school. If you are going to leave and you don't have contracts, which they should, we should just treat this like the pros and there should be contracts. I think everybody, for the most part, agrees with that. So let's say you sign a one year, two year, three year deal. Maybe you have them tiered in that way. Like, you know, this guy is a rock star. We're signing him out of high school.

We're signing him to a three year deal. If he leaves, if you want to say that the player doesn't have to pay a punishment for it, that's fine or a penalty for it. That's fine. Because these guys ain't loaded. I get that. So like if a guy, you know, science, you know, it sounds great. signs a $250,000 deal or a million dollar deal, well, you're not made of money, right? So say you get to keep that cash, someone's got to pay for it, so the other schools should have to pay it.

Like, guys at LSU stays there for two years, has a three-year deal. He's got a year left on it. He wants to leave and go to Georgia. Georgia has to pay a penalty to get the guy there. It's just cost of doing business. And I'm fine with the idea of not having players pay back the money they got to go to a place because you change your mind. If schools want to give you that money to come there, you might be there a year, you might hate the coach. The coach may leave.

That could be in your contract. That if the coach leaves, this agreement's null and void. Like, that's how contracts work. But you have to, but you've got to get to a world where you're getting those kind of deals. Like, you know, what's wrong with that? You know, what's wrong with the idea of giving guys contracts and letting them get out of said contract if they want to go somewhere else, but someone's got to pay a penalty? So when guys like Jay Billis say dumb shit, like, oh, so a coach can leave, but it's a big deal when a player wants to move, dude, you're just being a fucking asshole that's pandering to idiots on Twitter who are idiots and will always be idiots. But congrats, dude, you went to Duke.

Yet you went to Duke, yet you're portraying yourself as a fucking idiot. Congrats, pal. There was another confirmation. After the NCAA tournament, there was another confirmation. So I think that's a better question answered by LSU, and it's by Coach Wade. I'd like to hear their answers. Yesterday morning, as I came into work, again, you're aware of rumor and innuendo, but I don't know if you all know this or not, the Internet has a lot of rumor and innuendo on it, right, is what's going on.

So, again, as we looked at that, it became apparent that this could be a potential outcome, and at that point in time, we engaged in conversations. It's all really fascinating. I'm just, I'm intrigued by the whole thing. Boo Corrigan. There was. You think Boo Corrigan never just wears a T-shirt somewhere? Yeah, no show. As well as we did have other meetings. I don't want to say that.

There were other phone calls and there were other face-to-face meetings. But there's also one that was missed. But again, just like in any relationship, it starts out great and you're convinced that you're changing that. person and then you get burned by them doing exactly what they know what's the song uh well it's like a walk away joe situation you know born to be a leave or tell you from the word go destined to deceive her he's the wrong kind of paradise he's going to know it in a matter of time that boy's just a walk away joe this is who this guy is so when you get in bed with this guy you know that there's that risk you are running that risk of doing business with this guy it's the same with lane kiff and ls you should

know that ls you should know that these two dudes that's who they are don't be shocked at if they go. Although because of the way shit ended with LSU and LSU got rid of the AD that fired Will Wade, I feel like this is just where Will Wade's going to fucking stay unless they fire him.

Now, I could see Lane Kiffin in two years going, hey, I'm heading to Alabama or I'm heading to Florida. Like, I could see that tomorrow. I wouldn't be shocked by it. How much does that speed things up? And how open are you to maybe assisting coaches or people

Now we're talking about who they want to hire as a coach. I don't give a shit who North Carolina State is going to hire as a coach. But the whole story is fascinating, the whole way this thing's played out. But again, it's a business that's built on lies and being full of shit. It's just a matter of whether or not you're getting played in the moment. They got played. It's pretty simple, right? Like, that's the name of the game.

We don't use words like honor, code, and loyalty. We don't use those words. They don't exist. Anyway, more to come. Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything. Like packing a spare stick. I like to be prepared. That's why I remember, 988, Canada's suicide crisis helpline.

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