The Josh Innes Show - More on James Franklin's Buyout

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

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Okay, so I found it. I found the per day, permanent breakdown of the James Franklin contract. Like, this is stupid. This is dumb. And James Franklin's one of the good coaches. One of the problems were seen in college football. Like, look at UCLA, right? Now, UCLA may still be a loser program with, like, Rick Neuheisel's kid,

who now just, like, looks like the villain in an 80s movie. Like, he looks like he'd be, you know, crane kicking with fucking Johnny. But, like, he's come in. and won back-to-back games. It's ridiculous considering how bad UCLA was. Nico looked like shit. Now he's known for like 300 yards. They were a joke of a program, and now they've won back-to-back games, and good for them. And one of them is upsetting Penn State. Good for them. But like, you watch UCLA, and they're one of these schools that hired a completely unqualified dufus to be the coach because he had a name. They went out and hired Deshawn.

Was it just Deshawn Foster? Is that who they hired? And like, you know, hey, had a nice career as a running back had some ties to the school obviously and was a total loser and what's happening to these schools is they're getting these hard-ons for hiring these former players with big names to look sexy and then they find out that they're losers and it's one thing to hire these kind of guys at like you know a max school or something like that but you thought you were going to do something in the big 10 with some jamoke that had never done it before and you're like hey he's and then you're losers so anyway let me play a couple commercials here and then oh shit I got to read you So let me play these commercials and we'll continue.

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All right, so this is the breakdown per day, per hour, per week, per month for the life of this buyout, okay? So, James Franklin will make over $20,000 per day from Penn State for the next six years. $20,000 a day. That is $15 per minute. every minute that this man exists for the next six years will pay him $15. I used to ride around in a fucking car doing DoorDash and I got excited when I would make, what was a good hour? A good hour for me doing DoorDash may have been like, you know, 20-something bucks.

That was a good hour. If I got two or three dashes in there with a decent tip in it, I might make $30 for an hour of work, generally speaking, depending on the time of day, if there was like a peak hour where they would give you a little extra bonus, whatever. Again, this isn't the real world. The real world is not getting paid $50 million to not work. I'm well aware of that. So again, my world is not their world.

But it's impossible to not at least think about this. Think about this for a second. that when I used to drive DoorDash, I'd be in the car. If I were in there for an hour, generally speaking, a good hour, lunchtime, dinner time, whatever, a good hour for me, because you have to get in the car, then you have to go pick up the food, then you have to drive to the place, you've got to put the food on the doorstep, you've got to take a fucking picture of it, all that shit. A good hour was probably in the neighborhood of 25 to 30 bucks. That would be a really good hour, I think. Per hour, James Franklin is going to make $913 per hour just to exist. Like at the high point of my money making, I'm just talking base salary here.

At the high point, I'm trying to think of what my actual salary was. So this is not really a fair number because I would have had endorsements and everything else with it. But let's just say, I'll go to the high point and I'll round up here and just do it by 365. So the number of days in a year, if you didn't know. Like at the high point of my life per day, I wasn't making what James Franklin, to not work, by the way, will be making in an hour. It's stupid. I know I've spent a lot of time talking about this. But until 2031, and I don't know what the details are.

Like, I'm sure if he gets another job somewhere, they're like, nope, it's voice. So this guy ain't going to coach ever again, right? Like, there's no situation where he'd go, I am so desperate to coach that I will turn down. Because I know, like, Coach O, I think there was something about his money where he wouldn't get paid if he continued coaching. Now, maybe he can coach at a lower level. That could be it. Let me Google that, actually. That would actually be a solid piece of information.

Does James Franklin buyout stop if he gets a job? Let's see. Let's see. What's next for James Franklin? So, wait a minute's like, is he just getting this? So, well, that's fun. So they're talking about getting another gig. So if all these stories are saying he's getting another gig.

So if all these stories are saying he's getting another gig or questioning what gigs he could get, is he getting 50 mil no matter what? Shit. Well, rock on, brother. 50 mil and you can do whatever the fuck you want. And that's actually helpful to another school because it'll keep them, you know, perhaps he won't have to get, they won't have to pay him as much. It'll make it easier to get a job.

Or he just double dips. Like, think about that. If this guy goes out and gets another gig because it doesn't sound like there's no way he's just going to like, take the $50 million, right? Like, he's obviously going to continue that. So he's going to get $50 million on top of whatever they pay him to coach in another place, and he's not going to get a job. This isn't like a Jimbo Fisher situation where you look at the guy and just think he's

a stodgy, outdated loser like Jimbo Fisher. This is a guy that's still like a relatively young dude. He carries himself as a relatively young dude. By the way, he was one fucking went away from the national championship, and I know that Jimbo had won a national championship. But everything about Jimbo at Texas A&M felt old and stodgy and tired. And I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that A&M's colors are ugly and they wear Adidas gear that looks like it came from a gas station.

So like a lot of that is why you looked at the Aggies and were like, God, this is such a stodgy, tired, awful program. Whereas James Franklin doesn't carry himself that way. So I still think as a young dude, he's in his early 50s. And if he's not having to pay the, if he doesn't lose his buyout for taking another job somewhere, Fuck. That's how a lot of these smaller schools get big-name guys. Like, for example, LSU's basketball coach at one point was Johnny Jones. They had hired Johnny Jones, I believe, from North Texas.

Johnny Jones played at LSU and was an assistant coach under Dale Brown back in the 80s, and I think he was there in the 90s, too, but Johnny Jones. Johnny Jones goes to LSU, and he's not there very long. It wasn't a very successful run, but they owed him money when they fired him. So when he took the job at Texas, I think it was Texas Southern, right? That's the one that's in Houston, right? He was at Texas Southern. And he took the job there.

Texas Southern barely had to pay him anything because it was like, hey, like, we'll pay you. But since you're getting this buyout, you're still getting paid very well. Like you're getting paid like top-notch money to be a SWAC coach because you're still getting paid for two, three, four years by LSU. I would imagine this would be a similar situation then, right? Like if you're James Franklin, you're getting $50 million. So you're pulling two paychecks. Like, you're not going to take no money to be a coach at a major program, right? Like, he's not going to go to, like, I saw like Florida or whatever jobs are going to be open.

And it's like, well, James Franklin went to coach Florida. Just throw that out there. He's not going to do it for a million dollars a year, right? So if he goes down there, he's going to get paid four, five, six million dollars a year to be at Florida. And then he's going to get paid, you know, the per year he's going to get for the next six years from Penn State, which is, you know, 21,917. dollars per day so

weekly this man makes $153,000 a week and $666666266 per month good work if you can get it and I'm not one of these guys that like put your like I don't put my hand in other people's pockets and say how does this guy make this like look

his agent worked out a fucking deal like you could look at my situations at certain times to be like wait a second you were making $150,000 a year to talk up fucking fog hat records, to which I would tell you, hey, we didn't play fog hat asshole, but I did get paid $150,000 to talk up Bon Jovi records. You bet your dick I did. And then I got yelled at about it because the stupid listeners of Kshe-95 would be like,

stop talking over the music. We want to we care about the music. Like how many times do you have to hear the beginning of runaway before you've heard it enough? But no, no, no, no, they'd bitch you about that shit too. So no matter what your job is, there's always going to be someone who could say, God, you're getting paid that to do that. So I'm not one of those kind of people. But it is pretty bonkers when you think about it that this gentleman is going to make

$66,000 per week, per month rather. It's not a week, per month, to do nothing. And the funny thing is, what's in his mind right now is that he wants to get back into coaching and he wants to shove it up their ass. And I also understand that. You know, like, when I got whacked at Keishy, I was like, I know I'm going to get paid less to go do something somewhere. And again, this isn't the same thing as James Franklin.

But on a smaller scale, when you get fired somewhere, your first thought is like, I want to shove it up their ass. And there's that, like, and he's going to get a gig. Like his situation is like mine was in Philadelphia where, like, people were calling instantly. Like, after St. Louis, nobody was calling. Like, I'm out of sight, out of mind. people did not give a fuck about my existence.

I was the one trying to call people. When I got fired in Philadelphia, and I was still like top of mind, and I was a hot commodity, my phone was ringing instantly, and that was great. I was getting calls before I got fired. I was getting calls after I got fired. In St. Louis, once I got fired there, ain't nobody was calling. Once I got fired in Houston the first time that I got fired there from 790, ain't nobody was calling. So, James Franklin's going to get calls from a bunch of big gigs, because a bunch of

bunch of big gigs are going to be open. One of them is already open in Arkansas. Florida has a very good possibility of being open. There's going to be open gigs. Good gig. And let's say that Matt Rule, that's the big name, that Matt Rule leaves Nebraska and goes to Penn State, which to me is, it's not a lateral move, but it's kind of like, eh. That's how I would label that move.

Is that a fair labeling of that? Like Penn State in theory is a better job than Nebraska. and I don't know what the money situation is at both, how much money they have from boosters. But Nebraska, much like Penn State, is a fallen power, not even a fallen power, but a once major power that had fallen upon hard times, and now it's kind of okay. Penn State's actually, like, still a legitimate player. Nebraska's not a legitimate player. Nebraska hasn't been a legitimate player in like 20 years.

But, like, I assume that Penn State's a better job. But if you're Matt Rule and you're building something that, Nebraska. It's not a lateral move. But I don't look at it as like, wow, you're jumping from, you know, Kent State to, you know, Iowa or something, like where it's like it's an obvious jump up. I don't know that it's an obvious step up. But obviously, if Penn State's going to pay a dude $50 million to go away, money-wise, it's probably going to be a pretty good step up for you. What does Matt Rule make? You're talking about a guy that's like really ridden a lot to do nothing as Matt Rule. The dude's still right.

high off of being decent at Temple because he sucked in the pros and they're not really all that good like imagine being like Matt Rule and like basically because you were good at Temple a decade ago you're this sexy name let's see what does Matt Rule make at Nebraska let's really make ourselves feel sick let's see Nebraska contract let's see eight year 74 million dollar deal Well, that's chicken shit. Fuck, my man's getting paid basically that to do nothing. And let's just go look at Matt Rule. What I love is you can actually just look at his contract

because it's a state university. His whole fucking contract is just online. That's fun. Let's see, Matt Rule. Let's look at Matt Rule's statistics. Let's look at his record as the coach in Nebraska. And everywhere that wasn't Temple. Like, I don't know.

Like, they have a hard on for this guy. I forget about Baylor, too. I forgot that he was at Baylor. And they went to the Sugar Bowl at Baylor. I totally forgot he was the coach at Baylor. But here's what he's done at Nebraska. Five and seven, seven, and six, and they're five and one now. Like, why is it that this guy is the one where they're like, holy shit, look out for Matt Rule.

He's coming to town. Like, why if you were at Penn State, would you hear that and go, I'm excited? Guys, in the same conference as you, and he's seven and six, five and seven. He's having a good year this year at five and one. There's still a long way to go. Eh, had two good years at Temple, cool, went to the Baylor, then went to the pros and was a total fucking dud. Like, it's wild. College coaching's wild to me.

Like, just a revolving door of losers. Anyway, more to come.