The Josh Innes Show - Louisiana Governor is a Sh*t Show Part 2

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

In part two, we listen to Jeff Landry explain how the LSU AD will not select the next coach. People hear this and assume he means that AD will remain employed, but will not make the choice. Perhaps the AD is getting fired? Duh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, here we go. Part two of the governor of Louisiana. I think if he had his druth, there's probably Coach O would be the coach. But look, and I'm with them that you want someone that fits your culture and embraces your culture. Coach O was in a, was on one of these ESPN shows. I think it was yesterday. And he was talking about how to fit in in the culture of Louisiana. And he's not wrong. I think those things matter.

Look at Chip Kelly. Chip Kelly was an okay coach at the Eagles. And Chip Kelly won some games in his first couple of years. They blew it in the second year and missed out. and they went to the playoffs the first year. No one ever liked him. And part of the job of being a coach is being someone that people embrace. And people didn't embrace Brian Kelly.

He didn't wrap his arms around him. He felt disingenuous. He felt inauthentic. So I get it. But let's do this. Let's play a couple commercials. And let's get into the second part of the Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana audio here.

Here we go. All right, here we go. So this is the part where he's asked about the athletic. director, Scott Woodward. Now, for those who don't know, Woodward is a guy that's drawn a lot of ire from people. He did hire Jimbo Fisher at Texas Tech, or sorry, Texas A&M, and he gets a lot of the blame for the big buyout for Jimbo. It's actually not his responsibility. That was a different athletic director that provided him with that extension. So to be full disclosure and to be fair about it, okay, that's the story about this guy. He's a big game hunter. He always hires big name

coaches. He's seemingly pretty good at his job, considering that he hired the baseball coach that won two championships, all that. But the football coach was a whiff, a giant whiff that's going to cost a lot of people, a lot of cash, and thus those people that have a lot of cash have his head on a chopping block. But this is the audio that's really kind of gotten people's ears up when they hear the governor say that the athletic director isn't picking the head coach. Let's play some of that audio. So the question that leads into this is, will Scott Woodward be picking the next head coach? No. I can tell you right now, Scott Wood is not selecting the next coach.

Hell, I'll let Donald Trump selected before I let him do it. Well, that's really going to get people going now. But this guy doesn't care, obviously. He's a MAGA governor guy. But trust me, that's going to certainly get social media's ears perked up when you bring Trump into the thing, which is already going to set you back. And you're a right-wing governor. And you want to put up a fucking Charlie Kirk statue on the campus.

It's been a week. It has been a week for Jeff Landry. Then throw on the fact that he's the guy responsible for the fat-ass Omar, the Tiger, that came into the stadium last year. I don't know, but the Board of Superlis is going to come up with a committee and they're going to go find us a coach. Hold on, hold on. One real quick thing on that. Because here's what y'all reporters need to do. You don't need to start looking and who represents all these people, like these agents.

You know what's interesting? From not mistaken, Woodard's agent, Kelly's agent, the Texas A&M, they're all the same agent. I don't believe that's true either. But I get the point that he's trying to make here, which is like all these people are all representing the same people, thus getting them all the same big deals. And I agree. It is not good for these places to have these head coaches that are getting these buyouts of $50-something million. So again, the messaging and the delivery and the packaging of it isn't necessarily good,

but there's some about it that's accurate. It's just delivered poorly. And some of it's just inaccurate, like the thing about Woodward and the agents and everything. Like you realize if I would be, I don't know how many sports riders we got here today. Just you. We should have a bunch. okay like this is ridiculous lawyers would be disbored

for the way these agents act and the way they're able to represent in fact they may there's no doubt they may even represent some of the players now like it's really time for the NCAA to put on some guardrails and this is not wrong because it's the Wild West and it's out of control

and people are making a ton of cash and these you know with the players and everything else there's a lot of stuff that's not above board that's unseemly if you will so again that part of it not wrong either. In college sports. And it's fine. We don't need to guard rails. Big billionaires want to spend all that kind of money. No problem. But if I got to go find $53 million from Kevin, it's not going to be a pleasant conversation. I'm just telling you.

So, and that's, look, the thing that got people's attention the most is that the athletic director is not going to be hiring the coach. And it seems like the governor is going to be out here selecting the coach, even though he said he's not. They're going to put together committee, whatever. And people aren't looking at things fourth dimensionally. They're looking at it like, oh, my God, he's neutered the AD and the AD. What does he do? He's going to do nothing because they're going to fire him. This isn't hard.

Every story I see and every post I see from fans across the country, every freaking post, is, oh my God, why did he neuter the athletic director? Now what's the AD going to do? Just sit back and watch this guy pick the coach? Yeah, because he's not going to have a job. the athletic director is going to be fired. This is not hard. That is what's going to happen.

So when I read that stuff, I'm like, why can't people look at things fourth dimensionally? If you're an athletic director, all right, let's just say he's not fired. If you're an athletic director, why would you want a job where you're being told that you can't do the job that you're paid to do when the governor, the highest ranking official in your state, is at a podium. I'm saying that you're basically worthless in a piece of shit and have no responsibility in this. That dude is getting fired. It's not difficult. It's obvious. He's getting fired.

So I don't know what this committee they're going to put together is going to be who's going to be on this committee. I have no idea. Probably a lot of these boosters, these rich-ass people and a board of supervisors people and presidents and all that stuff. That's probably what we're going to be dealing with here. Okay, fine. is what it is. But I think people are overreacting, right? Like, there's a lot of dysfunction in sports, and people still take jobs. Look at the Raiders. The Raiders were dysfunctional for, like, the last 20 years of Al Davis. People still wanted the job. Now, granted, they didn't

always get the best coaches. And I don't recall how many times they were going after a huge name and had to settle on Tom Cable or settle on Hugh Jackson or whatever. But, I mean, Lane Kiffin took the gig there. Lane Kiffin was the sexiest name out there, and Lane Kiffin took the job to work for Al Davis. And there are other examples. I mean, look, Florida is going to get a huge coach. Someone's going to go coach at Florida, and they have fired like five coaches in the last 10 years or something like that. Some dumb numbers since Urban Meyer. So, like, they're going to take these gigs.

Now, the question is, do you leave a gig that you are good at and that is good for you to go to one of these places? That's the question. We talked about that in the first part of this. Why would Lane Kiffen leave LSU and go deal with that? But you can see why Joe Brady, the offensive coordinator with the Buffalo Bills, might if he really wants that gig. You can see why Kelvin Shepard, who's the defensive coordinator for the Lions, would do that. You can see why the coach at Tulane would do that. You can see why someone who's at Purdue would do that.

You see what I'm saying? So, like, does something like this hurt? Does this press conference hurt if you're trying to get someone who is already established, already a rich coach, already somewhere successful? Yes. Like, do I think this hurt you if you're trying to get Dan Lanning from Oregon? If that's a big whale that you want to try to get, does it hurt you to dump, to have your governor basically saying, like, we're going to put together a committee of dipshits to go find a coach, and we don't think these guys should be getting these huge buyouts? Absolutely. Like, it's the cost of doing business.

I don't know what the governor thinks he's going to fucking do or who he's going to hire by going out saying, hey, oh, by the way, you're not going to get a parachute of $50 million or $30 million or $40 million. Of course it's going to make it difficult to get a coach. It's a dumb move. It's political bullshit. Okay, fine. You're not going to get Dan Lannning. Dan Lannin is not going to coach LSU.

I don't think Lane Kiffin is going to coach LSU. But part of that is not because it's LSU or because of what's happening at Florida or LSU. I think he's got a good situation. I wouldn't leave it. He has no ties to LSU. He didn't go to LSU. He's not from Baton Rouge. Like, you'd leave that gig if Baton Rouge is your home.

Like Scott Woodward, who's the athletic director at LSU, he was the AD at Texas A&M. Scott Woodward left to come to LSU. Why? Because he's from Baton Rouge and he went to LSU. So, like, there's a home cooking thing. Lane Kiffin is not leaving Ole Miss because, ooh, there's home, it's Baton Rouge,

or there's home, it's Gainesville, Florida. Like, there is no incentive. financially or otherwise, other than maybe resources. But obviously, Lane's buying a bunch of dudes in the portal. He's getting studs in the portal. So what can those places offer Lane Kiffin that Ole Miss R.D. doesn't? I could see why a guy would leave Mississippi State to go to Baton Rouge. And I can see why a guy would leave Kentucky to go to Bad Rouge.

I cannot see why, although look at the money that Mark Stoops. It is absurd the amount of money that Mark Stoops makes to coach. at Kentucky. And they can't really get rid of him because I think all of his buyout is guaranteed and his buyout is astronomical for a guy that's done very little. Who's been fine? For Kentucky standards, fine. But why would you leave those places? So to the point of this, I don't believe that the audio we heard from the Dingus Governor is a true deterrent. I think people overreact and people go nuts and oh my God, we're embarrassing. Louisiana is an embarrassing place. It is a hillbilly haven. The government there is fucked up. So I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. It's been a dirty, corrupt place for a long, long time. So I don't know what to tell you. But all that said, I don't think that what we heard in any of that audio is going, is what's going to truly cripple LSU in getting a big name coach.

I just think that most of these places are already giving coaches the same shit that LSU can give them. like what is like Eli Drinkwitz how much let's see let's say SEC coaches salaries I'm fairly certain that Eli Drinkwitz is making like seven or eight million dollars a year

Eli Drinkwitz makes nine million dollars a year nine you know where that has him in the country the dudes that are ahead of Eli Drinkwitz are Lane Kiffin Belichick Brian Kelly who's been fired Kaelin de Boar Dan Lannin

Steve Sarkesian, Dabo Sweeney, Lincoln Riley, Ryan Day, Kirby Smart. Those are the people that are above Eli Drinkwitz. What, an extra million dollars? Is that going to make your rod hard at LSU? Stay in Missouri. Build your fucking place. Build your sandbox. Josh Heipel's making $9 million a year at Tennessee.

There's no reason to go to an LSU. It's stupid. So, anyway, that's Governor Jeff. Landry that you've heard from today. I really want Coach O to come back. Not to be the head coach. Like, if I don't really care about the results of the games anymore, and I'm just here for the drama and I'm here for the hijinks,

and that's kind of what I'm getting to in sports now. Like, I don't really care about wins and losses so much. As I care about, like, watching just drama and interesting shit. I want Coach O involved in some way. You want to tell me, that guy can't recruit his dick off, bring him in. If he wants to coach the offensive line, sorry, the defensive line, bring him in. I don't give a shit. Let's rock.

anyway um there you have it all right more to come