The Josh Innes Show - Kiffin to LSU?

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

This Lane Kiffin drama is so juicy and delicious. His family is in Baton Rouge today. LSU flew his family in. Is Lane leaving? I think the drama of sports is actually more interesting than the actual sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Commissions fees and expenses may apply. Read the funds or ETF's prospectus before investing. Funds and ETFs are not guaranteed. Their values change and past performance may not be repeated. I love whenever we start getting to that point in SEC football coaching searches where there's planes on the tarmac and you're got people following flight logs of coaches flying from one town to another. Like there's some really good fun elements of all this drama because that's all this is.

Like if you start getting past the idea that sports matters for the outcome of the games and just start embracing that the drama is all that really matters, then we're really really in like the greatest times especially in the SEC when you've got like the lane kiffin story is phenomenal right every part of this story is great let's do this let's play a couple commercials and and talk about lane kiffin the latest there the drama in a spectacular drama let's get into it after these words boarding for flight 246 to toronto is delayed 50 minutes oh what sounds like ojo time play ojo great idea.

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Lane Kiffin's family has been flown to Baton Rouge. So a jet flew from Baton Rouge to Oxford, Mississippi, picked up Kiffin's family. And now they are in Baton Rouge touring Baton Rouge. Apparently he's supposed to be coming to town. Again, that's the latest thing I've heard. I don't know how true that is or not. But the kiffins are in town and they're touring Baton Rouge. Like, I don't know.

Like the idea of touring Baton Rouge fascinates me because Baton Rouge is not a touring town. As we discussed, Oxford, Mississippi is probably an exponentially better, more charming place to live than Baton Rouge. I love Baton Rouge. Those are my people. Traffic's terrible. Crime is terrible.

Food's pretty good. people are very nice but it's not like Baton Rouge is some sort of amazing place I love it, it's my people, it's my town but Baton Rouge is not some amazing charming place. If you are looking for charm Baton Rouge ain't it. Like if you go to the campus

of LSU like you're driving through hood, hood, hood, campus back to hood hood hood hood like when you see the way LSU just sort of pops up out of this really shitty part of town it is pretty fascinating. But then like right on the other side of campus there's like mansions along the lakes and everything. So again, like, he ain't going to Baton Rouge

because Baton Rouge is a charming town. If Lane were to go to LSU, and I don't think it's for the money either. Now, money plays a factor because nobody wants to turn down big cash and he's going to obviously make a shitload of money wherever he goes. I mean, I think the story was that

Ole Miss has already made him an offer to be the highest paid coach in America. Think about how wild that is. Big picture, Lane Kiffin has won nothing. Big picture, Lane has never won a national title. He's never played for a national title. He's been kind of a job hopper for most of his life, never won anything. Guys about to become the highest paid coach in college, whether it be at Ole Miss, whether it be at LSU, whether it be at Florida. And the people at Ole Miss are super

pissed right now. They're feeling jilted because they want a straight answer from this guy. They want to know like, hey, are you going to coach our team? Are you going to be here? He was asked about that in a press conference after the game on Saturday, I think. And he was like, I don't know. I mean, like, I love it here. I don't know. Like, it feels. like a guy that's probably going to leave. And he's also a guy, Ross, you good? He's also a guy that when you look at him, he's a guy that seems to really be embracing the wildness of this whole thing, kind of embracing the trolling aspect of it, the drama

of it all. That's what Lane does. I know this. And it feels pretty confident that this is going to happen. If Lane were to take the LSU job or the Florida job and do that here in the next couple days, he's not going to coach Ole Miss in the playoff, which is wild. Think about how wild that is that Kiffin, who's taken this team to where they're almost guaranteed to get into the college football playoff, unless they totally fuck up, they're getting in. This guy took them there and is probably not going to coach them in the playoff, which is bonkers when you really think about it.

But it makes sense, like you don't want some guy that's leaving you to be your coach, so I get it. But those people are pissed. They want an answer. All these big money boosters are throwing money on the table. They're like, what are you going to do? Are you going to stay? he going to go. He got LSU who wants to find a coach. It appears LSU is willing to put together deals that could get him $13, $14 million a year. His family is touring Baton Rouge right now.

Like this is fun. This is just elite level fun. Now, where would I prefer to be if I were Lane Kiffin? Again, I'm a Baton Rouge guy. I'm from Baton Rouge. I love Louisiana, right? Louisiana is a great place. They're wonderful people. I love the place. But Oxford, Mississippi is one of the most charming college town you ever going to be in, right? So to me, I'd stay at Ole Miss. I'd be a legend there. I'd probably never get fired there. It would take a lot to get him fired there. It's your baby. You built it from the, not the ground up, because there have been successful coaches there, but you're going to be the most successful coach, make the most money you can. Now, the one knock is people will tell you that you can't win a championship at Ole Miss. But I'd ask why. Like,

are they going to win this year? Maybe. Like, are they going to win this year? Maybe. Like, are they going to be heavy underdogs to anybody they'd face in the playoffs probably not heavy underdogs like would they beat georgia no they've already lost to georgia so i don't think they'd beat georgia but they beat ohio state probably not you know when you look at some of the better teams that are going to be there are they going to beat them probably not but i don't believe that you can't win a championship at olmiss like that's kind of been the big thing about ls u.su as well you can go to lsu and you can compete for championships and yes the talent pool in the state of louisiana is much better and yes you're going to get some hosses and totally, I get all that and I respect that.

I don't believe in this era of college football. You can just throw a label on any school and say they can't win. If you're in a power conference and you have the right resources, I think you can win and be competitive. Remember this, Clemson was a nothing program for most of the existence there. It was an underachieving bad program that always fell short, that never really lived up to the kind of potential, like the resource they had and everything. Dabo gets the gig and they become a power.

now granted that's in a different era of you know then we see now but clemson did it like why couldn't you do it at old miss like i see people doing this stuff about how old miss had their biggest crowd ever and it was 68 000 this weekend and at lSU you'll play in front of 1005 000 who fucking cares Oregon doesn't play in front of 105 000 people every week and Oregon's one of the most powerful programs in the country who gives a fuck like who gives a fuck about dick swinging over how big the attendance in your stadium is congratulations you can put a bunch of people in there. A lot of these stadiums are big for nothing anyway. I guarantee if you get the right crowd there, 68,000 can be really fucking loud at Ole Miss. I hope Lane comes to Bat Rouge because

he's got a vibe about him, right? I like the vibe. I like that he's got a brand about him. I like that you know what you're getting when you get Lane Kiffin. But what you're also getting is probably this drama again in a couple years. Like that's the weird thing about hiring someone that's willing to do what he's about to do to Ole Miss. And again, you're looking for upward mobility. And again, you're looking for upward mobility and all that. I get it. But there's something to be said about, like, if he's done it to this person, will this person do it to you? And that would always be in the back of my mind. Like, is LSU really Lane Kiffin's dream job? USC was his dream job and he got fired there. But like, is that really the end all be all? Is that what Lane Kiffin wants to be? Is that his

dream position in life to be the coach at LSU? I don't know. But you're obviously not going to say, know if he wants to coach there and they're putting on the full court press and look I think LSU is a great job and I think that Lane is a great coach and I think Lane is fun I think he's been personally endorsed by Nick Saban I think Nick Saban according to what my buddy was telling me is it Nick Saban has come out and said this is the guy LSU should hire he's endorsed Lane for that job like it is a it is a great gig and Lane is fun and like he would give you the personality that you didn't have with Brian Kelly and it would get you'd be that kind of center and imagine if you thought people hated lane when he left tennessee 15 years ago

imagine what would happen if kiffin leaves olmiss to go to ls u.su who are essentially rivals but imagine whenever he goes back in there this could be the all-time greatest heel move ever like we saw it with nick sabin nick sabin leaves ls u but he goes to the pros so there was that buffer area and it still sucked when he went back to Alabama, but he didn't leave LSU for Alabama. He left LSU from Miami and then Miami didn't work out. He goes back and coaches Alabama. You don't get opportunities like this very often.

Like this would be like if Nick Saban left Alabama and then went to Auburn. Like they're not like total rivals. LSU is not, the LSU and Ole Miss is not an Alabama Auburn Iron Bowl type thing, although there is a dumb name on the game they play now, the Magnolia Bowl and they are rivals but they're more rivals from a bygone era like 60s and 70s but as someone who's you know 90s and 2000s is my era old miss really wasn't one that I ever viewed that way but a lot of old heads do but lane leaving in the middle of a a playoff run to go coach at

a school that's considered one of your rivals is sexy as hell the drama around that like I'm trying to think of another example of that like when lane came back to coach against Tennessee and they threw like golf balls and shit at him like somehow lane is the guy that gets this like he got shit thrown at him when he was coaching old miss back in Tennessee again and if he does it to old miss it's going to be the same thing and the drama is so fucking sexy and beautiful and I love it and it's great it'd be compelling like there really aren't a ton of examples of anything like this like I'm trying to think of an example of and I'm sure they exist and I'm just missing them but a coach that leaves someplace for another

other place, like even the times that you would lose like Urban Meyer, like Urban Meyer retired or left Florida for health reasons, then goes to Ohio State. Like that sucks, but it is what it is. You're talking about a guy in the middle of a season. They will not let him finish that playoff season. He will leave and become the coach at a school that is your rival and a school that you fucking hate because that school is far superior to you in football. Holy shit, my nipples are hard thinking about this. Holy shit, this is fun. The drama of sports is better than the games themselves. Look at the NFL. There are a lot of shitty NFL games, but the drama that surrounds them is good. There's a lot of shitty college football, but there's a lot of drama

that surrounds it. And it's fucking fun, man. So that's the latest. So Lane, I don't know what's going to happen with Lane. I hope Lane comes to LSU. I can't wait to see how the Ole Miss dipshits respond to it. Fuck it's spectacular. Like to me, there's no way he stays at Ole Miss, right? Like you don't go up to the podium and give kind of a half answer when they ask you if you plan on being the coach at Ole Miss next year, there's no way in hell that you come back and like, oh, just kidding, I'm going to be the coach after you gave a non-answer to that.

There's no way. And I also feel like you don't send your family to a city to scout the city for a job unless it's pretty clear that you're already taking that job. Like, it'd be one thing if you were coming to town for an interview, it's another thing to send your family to town for the interview to send them there and kind of tour the place. Like that feels like you're on your way out

and this is the place you're going. Maybe I'm wrong. But that's a weird thing to do if that's not a job that you're truly interested in and that you're probably going to take. Because you know what you're doing to your current employer. Like you don't do what you're doing to your current employer and go back to the current employer.

They'll probably just fire your ass. Like the second they hear that you're probably taking that job, they're going to jump the gun and just fucking can you at that point. Although they probably won't only because I would imagine there's money involved in that that they don't want to pay. But still, It's fucking phenomenal. Like just the drama of this is spectacular.

All right, more to come.