The Josh Innes Show - JIS Classic: "Coach O" Recruiting

Episode Date: October 18, 2022

It's been brought to my attention that I should post some classic bits to remind people of when I was actually good. Now, that's not nice. But, the sentiment is correct. I went through old emails looking for any audio I could find. I wish I would have saved more. In this classic JIS clip, "Coach O" thinks he may have found his son. My God this is just spectacular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh and his show. The Tennessee job is not a good job. And if you notice the guys who seem to be clamoring for the job, like the names we hear connected to it, Mike Leach. Well, he wants to get into the SEC. So there's Mike Leach. There's Lane Kiffin, who's coaching at FAU. The big dogs they wanted, the guy they wanted,

Mike Gundy used them to get more money at Oklahoma State. So the issues they're dealing with at Tennessee, their fan base screwed them over by being part of this lynch mob to get Greg Sciano, and now it has completely neutered the program, and they don't deserve to have a good coach. See, A&M is going to, if they get Jimbo, they look big time, right? I mean, that changes the game. Oh, yeah.

You know, another thing that I find fascinating is the Herm Edwards angle. There's something about this show that if you come on this show, you get jobs. Yep, that's what happens. Now, I don't know if it's official with Herm Edwards. There are reports. So it's not official, but there are reports out there about Herm Edwards and being the coach at Arizona State. That's such an odd fit, isn't it?

I'm confused as a guy who, from what I understand, hasn't coached in the college game at all since the 80s. He was a pro coach at multiple places. Here's the thing, though. All right. The AD is his former agent. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, the AD is his former agent, so it's a lock.

Why would he want that job? Why not? Well, I get it. You're coaching, but how old is Herm in agent, so it's a lock. Why would he want that job? Why not? Well, I get it. You're coaching, but how old is Herm in his mid-60s? Probably. Give or take. He's 63. He's 63.

So Herm's 63. He's never been the head coach of a college football program as far as I know. There's recruiting that goes into it. It's not just like a college job or a pro job where you're dealing with grown-ass men. You're dealing with 18-, 19-year-old dudes. You're doing the glad the glad hand circuit i mean if that's what he wants to do he wants to do but for a guy that's never been a college coach arizona state while it's not a dream job it's not you know a big sec job it's a nice job yeah it is like that's a weird job to have for someone who's never like that feels like and i like her i'm not going to disparage Herm. I like him. I think he's a good man.

I love the guy, and he comes on the show a lot. I like him. That feels like a recipe for disaster. A guy that's never coached at the college level, who's only dealt with pros. Now, to be fair, there's one angle. Okay, well, I forgot about this. He coaches in the Under Armour All-Star Games. And that's his whole argument.

Oh, I haven't seen that. But he comes on the show with us, so that's the selling point is that he's the selling point is that he deals with okay how to handle the college kids because he's dealt with them for eight years uh coaching that game but he deals with them for for a week in mobile or wherever the hell they play that game wherever the under armor is the under armor game right and i don't think that one's in mobile that's the the senior ball that's in mobile but so i i don't know you know i mean i mean i don't know how much stock you put into whether or not you've been a head coach in college. But to me, if you're just your selling point is, hey, I've worked with kids for a week at a time during the senior bowl and had those practices. Is that really a big sign?

Now, on the other hand, it's Arizona State. It's not a glam job, right? You want to bring some attention to the program. And I imagine having a Herm Edwards would do that. I like him a lot. I dig him a lot. And maybe he'll come on the show more now because he's trying to try to recruit Texas. Maybe, I don't know. It feels like an awkward fit. It feels odd and it feels like something that's going to go horribly wrong. I mean, clearly he still has a passion for the game. You can hear it when we talk to him. I mean, he gets very passionate about

talking about football, but I think as a former NFL coach, when he still has a passion for the game. You can hear it when we talk to him. I mean, he gets very passionate about talking about football. But I think as a former NFL coach, when he's going to recruit players and he's sitting in the living room, I can help your kid get to the next level because I've been there, I know what it takes. I think it should be easy for him to recruit. But it's the matter of wanting to recruit. Now, these college guys aren't pounding the pavement. Like, the head coach is like Nick Saban isn't going town to town up and down the dive.

Well, he doesn't have to. No, but a lot of these guys. Now you might have to pop into a living room of a big-time player here or there, but they've got the Coach O's. Like Michael Orr. Yeah, they've got Coach O to go out and do that for you. Coach O's got to be the seller. That was his job.

He was a recruiter with the Tigers. Tigers, we're going to fight like Tigers. I wonder if that's his recruiting pitch. Like he would go into living rooms and he would have his music with him. He'd have a boom box and he'd carry it with him. And in my mind, he has a boom box. Not like a Bluetooth speaker. Oh, yeah.

Not like something modern. He's got one of those purple little CD players that you used to have. And he walks into some kid's living room in, I don't know, LaGrange. Some kid's room in, you know, Morgan City, Louisiana. And he's looking for an outlet to plug it into. Hey, man, you know, in my trailer, we only have a floor outlet. What? You know, it's right next to the vent on the floor.

And then Coach O rolls in there and he sits down. In my mind, he's like sucking on a crawfish head as he comes in, like throws it on the ground. Like that's his version of a peanut shell. you know, like in Texas roadhouse or something. So he goes in, throws the crawfish head down on the ground. Yeah, ma'am. Glad to be in your house. You have a beautiful home. I really like that wood paddling.

That's classy wood paddling. I'm also really fond of the Three Stooges collector's plates on the wall. Don't make fun of my collector's plates. Those are good collector's plates, ma'am. You got good collector's plates? Oh, yes, I'd love to see your 9-11 coin set. I would love that. That'd be great, ma'am.

He's got to say ma'am a lot. A lot. Oh, yeah. Because he's got to be polite. So if you're Coach O and you're going on a recruiting visit, like LSU it appears is going to go to the Citrus Bowl. So that's a selling point, right? I also like how there's a Citrus Bowl and an Orange Bowl. Why do we have to divide the citruses? Well, you've got lemons,

you've got grapefruits. Well, that's my point. Why does the orange get its own... Why is the orange the elite of the citruses? Because that's the biggest crop in Florida. And if we assume there's a Citrus Bowl and an Orange Bowl, is the Citrus Bowl going to exclude oranges so it's only the other non-orange citruses? I would hope so. Anyway, so back to Coach O.

He's selling the citrus bowl. We're going to get in there. We're going to need some oranges. Just like the orange and the stripes of a tiger. They're like, sir, the stripes are not orange. The stripes are black. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

There's an orange and there's a black. And then you got a tiger. What you do is you give them the heart are not orange. The stripes are black. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. There's an orange and there's a black. And then you got a tiger. What you do is you give them the heart of a tiger, the stripes of a tiger. Get them out there and go fight like a tiger. Come play for LSU. Coach, one more time. How did you get that job? I earned it.

I earned this job. I went out there. I earned it. It's my job. And that's the selling point, I think, you would get from out there. I earned it. It's my job. And that's the selling point I think you would get from Coach O. That's it. Also, I have three students' collector's plates, so I don't appreciate you mocking those. Do you have the one where there's the three of them and Curly's doing this?

My dad used to have those. Yeah, I had two. I had three and one fell and broke. Keep in mind, this is my dad, who if you're trying to—and then we're going to get some phone calls here about college football jobs. But I want to be clear on something here so when i tell you that my dad also had that same collector's plate set i don't want you to think that i think you're classy in some way or that you're somehow above me or anything like that of course not that it's some sort of classy move because i would like to read to you a facebook status from my dad yesterday.

It's so funny how Baton Rouge can have 20 Walmarts, but it won't support two Sears or two JCPenney stores, or any, all caps, any Kmarts, or two malls for that matter. Okay, so you're thinking of nothing here. Yeah. Support 56 McDonald's, but only one Applebee's? Crazy stuff, exclamation point. Was he trying to be ironic?

No, my dad didn't know what ironic is. My dad is the living embodiment of what you think should be someone trying to be ironic. This is a dead serious post. He's angry because there are too many Walmarts not enough sears or k-marts doesn't k-marts out of business right for the most part yes it's like the blockbuster i'm surprised he's that message he's that facebooking about that too like you know i go to all these red boxes where is a blockbuster all right if you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs, you got to check out Pick 6 from DraftKings.

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Limited time offer. See terms at pick6.draftkings.com slash promos. This is my favorite picture. You were talking about the Coach O home visit. He's got one from today of this kid that he recruited, I guess, Cole something. Yeah. And I guess he lives in some sort of a cabin. But it's the greatest photo.

A cabin? Like the wood paneling is everywhere. Oh wow. It's the greatest picture ever. Did you see that? But I think it's a fancy cabin. Oh like a JJ Watt cabin? It's so good. Boy and this guy looks like Josh Gad that he recruited. He's got like all this curly hair

like coat. Like this kid looks like he talks like Coach O. Coach O went to his house and he discovered, wait a second, who's your mom? This is my favorite picture. To hear them talk is like listening to two drunk guys have a conversation. It's the greatest.

He goes into this kid's house. Wait a minute, you look like a tiger. That's right, Coach, I'm a tiger. How old are you, son? I'm 18 years old, coach. Where were you born? I was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, coach. What month?

I was born in August, coach. That means you were conceived somewhere around January, about 1999-ish, give or take? I think so, sir. What's your mama's name? Her name is Barbara LaFouche, coach. LaFouche, coach. LaFouche? Of the Brobridge LaFouches?

That's right, coach. How do you spell Kojo? Oh. Old coat? Dadgum, I think that's my boy. You got a birthmark looking like a Florida Lee? That's right, coach, on my inner thigh. Oh, good God.

I think you're mine. I think you're the fruit of my loins. I thought I got snipped, but it turns out I wasn't. I got a leak. A leak. Kind of like that leak we're going to exploit in that Alabama defense next year if you'll come on down to school. We're going to run the ball real good, like. We're going to run right up the gut.

Going to get right up in there. Go Tiger. Boy. This kid is from Pontotoc, Mississippi. Kmart still open now? That's where I met her. I met your mom, Barbara LaFouche. You were down there.

She was a... Your mama, she was down there. She's from the Bro Bridge area. But the only job she could find was out of state at the Kmart in Pocatucko, Mississippi. I wish you could get this kid's info and call him. It makes sense because

Coach O coached at Ole Miss. Now it makes sense. It does. He went right to that place where they gave him the chicken on the stick that he likes. That's how he met her. I really wish you could get this kid's info and call him as Coach O. Hey, son. That's what we should do.

Somehow we could get LSU on probation. How great would that be? We'd just start calling random recruits of LSU. All right, I need the name and address. What's his name? It's Cole Smith. At Cole Smith 74. That is the most basic name ever.

That's what you give a bastard though no if you were a bastard you'd have a hyphenated last name like colesmith schuster or something like that get the info Jim make it happen hey coach what's going on oh not much just sitting around thinking about tigers

that'd be so good Hey, Coach, what's going on? Oh, not much. Just sitting around thinking about Tigers. That'd be so good. We've got to get some recruits numbers. We have to do this. Oh. Oh. Oh, God. Oh, hey, Coach. What's going on?

Oh, not much. Getting ready to go to Applebee's. Yeah, you know, they got rid of them little color sheets they used to leave on the table for the boys. I found myself bored, so I sit back and I count tigers. One tiger. Two tigers. Well, you know, I've been busy. Just learned to count to 11.

Didn't think I'd get there, but I did. Just cut to 11. You didn't learn that by counting wins, Coach. Oh, I sure didn't. Back when I was Ole Miss, the only number I knew was 4. Well, 3. I knew 3. 3 and 8.

That's what we were, so I didn't know. Well, I knew 8. And I knew that you combine 3 and 8, you get 11. But I didn't know what 11 looked like. Now I know. Oh, God. My abs hurt. Phone rings. Kid picks up help.

Code, it's Code Joe. Hey, Coach. What's going on? I'm just here in Baton Rouge. You realize how we got 20 Walmarts but we can't support two Sears and Roblox stores. No Kmarts.

There ain't not one Kmart around here. How am I supposed to find a blue light special? That's a middle of the night conversation. It's like he's half asleep. I think he wakes the kid up. Like, Coach is still, like, wide awake because he's all hopped up on Red Bulls and stuff. He's, like, hopped up on Coke and Red Bulls

just ready to go, you know? This kid's asleep. He's got to go to school tomorrow. He's like, hello? Cool! Let's go, hello? Cool. Let's go Joe. What's your favorite song about tigers? Cool, that's cool Joe, I'm doing the crossword puzzle.

The category is big feline, they're gonna get some W's Five letters We've been spotted a T and an R That's right we're gonna tie you We're gonna tie you You gotta stop I'm gonna die

I'm also following Cole Smith on your Twitter page. Hello? Kyle! Cole, no! He just calls him all the time. In my mind, he, like, Frank calls this kid,

but he can't disguise his voice. He tries. He's like, hey. He's like't disguise his voice. He tries. He's like, hey, he's like, hey, he's like, hello. Cold as Nick Saban. I don't think. Coach, I don't know for sure. But, Coach, I think that's Kojo. Yeah!

It ain't no Kojo. Let me tell you a story about the hair on the toilet. I just learned it last week. It ain't no Kojo. Let me tell you a story about the hair on the tortoise. I just learned it last week. Nice old man told me about it at the coaching show. Ain't never heard that story before. It was a good story. Good story, solid story.

But I like to make it about the story of the tiger and the tide. That's what I'm going to make that story about. The tiger and the tide. Tell you how it's going to work. Tiger's going to win because he's got the heart of a tiger and the stripes of a tiger. Ain't no lying. Lying's a pussy. We tiger. Alright. We will regroup. We're back after this.