The Josh Innes Show - Ole Miss Fans Are Dopes And More Portal Musings

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

First off, Ole Miss people are insufferable. I keep reading about how Pete Golding, the new Ole Miss coach, has won the divorce over Lane Kiffin. Well, it's easy to win the divorce when you are coaching a ready made team! I was reading that smart college teams are winning in the portal as opposed to with high school recruiting. I've always felt that should be the strategy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So I'm reading this story about the transfer portal, and I was reading that Kurt Signetti is now the new portal king. He has stolen that crown from Lane Kiffin, right? And that's the story I'm reading, Portal King. And Lane is, look, LSU's in a weird spot. They don't have any quarterbacks on their roster. Like, it's a weird thing at LSU right now. And of course, I'm over here rooting for LSU having to deal with Ole Miss dipshits

who have no clue how anything works. Like, they are the greatest example of new money dipshits. and their time will come that they're going to be, you know, back to their rightful place and everywhere. But, of course, they're dick swinging because Trinidad Chambliss and the running back. Kewan Lacey decided to stay at Ole Miss instead of transferring. And people thought they might have transferred to LSU to go with Lane.

So, of course, they're dick swinging over this. And I read a tweet from somebody today. And the tweet said, it appears that Pete Golding is currently winning the breakup over Lane Kiffin. And I'm like, yeah, and if you don't know Pete Golding, is the defensive coordinator at Ole Miss, who's now the head coach, who just was essentially gifted the job because they couldn't get anybody else to take the job because, well, they didn't really offer anybody else. There was no one else to take the job, so they gave it to the defensive coordinator,

who seems to be doing fine, and they're in the semifinals now, and hey, more power to them, right? My issue with that kind of logic, actually, before we get into that, let me play a couple commercials, and we will continue. My issue at that kind of dip-shitty logic, which is, oh, look who's winning the breakup. Well, okay, great. So here's the way this works. One guy is benefiting from everything the other guy who left did. He hasn't had to go out and do anything. Like, oh, by the way, I inherited a team that was good enough to be in the college football

playoff. Oh, by the way, I beat fucking Tulane in the college football playoff. Cool, so did Lane. Oh, I went and beat Georgia. Good for him. They beat Georgia. Mind you, though, look, it came down to one or two plays. They made one or two plays.

They kicked the field goal. They won the game. More power to them. But I see people say shit like that, and I'm like, bro, like, what world do you live in? Like, I get that your fan boy dipshits, and I understand that this is all you have, and this is the only life you have, which is saying this kind of shit, like, oh, look who's won the breakup. Pete Golding's winning the breakup over Lane Kiffin.

Yeah, Lane Kiffin's going to a completely different place where they just had to fire a fucking coach and having to rebuild the fucking roster. Now, I'm not telling you he's going to succeed at that, and I'm not going to tell you that LSU is going to win 10 national championships with Lane, and I'm not going to tell you that I even like Lane. At the moment, I kind of find him to be kind of a dope, okay? But, and of course my opinion could change on that very much. Looks like they're going to get Sam Levitt from who's the Arizona State quarterback. He's the number one portal fucking quarterback available, so rock on. But like the idea that one person who inherited all the good current things from the breakup, quote unquote, is the one that's winning the breakup. Well, of course he's currently winning the fucking breakup. Lane Kiffin's going to a place that won seven games this year and is sitting around pulling their fucking puds, trying to find quarterbacks and everybody else.

Of course, the guy who's still in the college football playoff, suckling off the teed of the guy that built everything and left. Like, what planet are these people on? Of course that's the case. Tell me what happens in three years, four years. Tell me what happens with Pete Golding in year five at Ole Miss. Tell me if Pete Golding makes it to year five at Ole Miss. Tell me if Lane Kiffin makes it to year five at LSU.

But like to sit here and say, well, look who's won the divorce? Yeah, because one person had to move out of the house, move somewhere else, start fucking somebody else, and try to rebuild their entire life. One person gets to keep the house and gets to keep the car and gets to keep custody of the kids. They get to keep all the good shit about the relationship. The other person had to move and stay in a fucking hotel. So, of course they are.

Of course they're winning this thing. It's like when someone breaks up in the hopes that they're going to get more action and a better wife or a better girlfriend, right? Like you broke up and like that's what Lane Kiffin did. Now, obviously, the money is about the same and the house. So basically it's like this. Lane Kiffin moved out of his current house and moved out of his relationship with his current partner in the case of this stupid comparison. But he moves out of his house. He moves to a nicer house, a bigger house.

But he did that in thinking that he was going to find somebody hotter and get more action than he had already. and at this moment he doesn't have more action. But the person who's already still living in the old house and is still, you know, getting the action, that person is winning currently. Cool. What happens when Ole Miss, let's say Ole Miss loses to Miami on Thursday

and this little magical run is over and they're no longer America's team and they no longer can feed off of this whole world that, you know, laying kiffins a piece of shit and whatever. And then you're just kind of left to your own devices and have to figure it out. Oh, you know what you're going to lose? Your offensive coordinator.

The offensive coordinator who is going to, to coach in that bowl game. But the offensive coordinator, like I saw people saying, oh, it appears that Lane Kiffin wasn't the brains of this thing after all, huh? Maybe he isn't as valuable as we thought. Well, head coaches are as valuable as their coordinators, right? Well, his offensive coordinator is at Ole Miss currently, and he's going to be at LSU the second Ole Miss is bounced. He's going back and forth between LSU and Ole Miss for recruiting another shit versus coaching at Ole Miss. He goes to LSU to do some recruiting, goes back to old miss to do some coaching so you're still at the end of it going to lose your offensive coordinator

and your head coach to lSU you still have your defensive coordinator cool you got ls recruiting guy who lsu let walk and old miss scooped them up cool but at the end of it like who won who won the divorce well we'll see who won the fucking breakup who won the divorce i don't think what happens in this year because you know what's going to happen you know why lane also wins that divorce the more you win, the more money Lane makes because LSU is paying him every time Ole Miss advances. So when they won on Sunday, Saturday, Sunday,

whenever that was, guess what? Lane got paid. If they win the national championship, Lane's the national championship coach, he's getting paid by LSU, and he's going to be the guy that built the national championship winning roster. Like, do you think that people sitting at LSU today

are going, oh no, we hired Lane Kiffin, but Lane Kiffin's obviously the loser of this break up because his coordinator that took over his head coach is still winning without him. Let's see what they do whenever you're left to your own devices and have to figure out shit in two or three years. Oh, but Ole Miss was able to keep Trinidad Chamblis. Well, they don't even know if they're going to keep him because he may not be granted another year of eligibility.

Oh, they kept Kiwan Lacey. That's cool. What are those guys going to do? You rolled out the fucking Brinks truck for him so Lane couldn't get him. If you're Trinidad Chamblis, you've taken Ole Miss as far as Oleis has ever gone. Do you want to be the guy that's going to go, hey, I have to announce, and this is a hypothetical here, but I believe if Ole Miss makes it to the national championship game, anybody who would want to say they're going to the portal would have to do so prior to the championship

game. So do you think Trinidad Chambliss, the guy that's taking this team as far as they've gone ever, is going to be like, hey guys, I know we're about to play in the national championship game, but I do declare my intentions of being in the transfer portal. It's been nice playing here. I'm glad you think of me as some sort of legend, but I'm heading out. It's not going to happen. Oh, but he loves us. No, he's just not going to go. Like, it's not worth it to do that when the money is going to be probably similar.

And we don't even know if Trinidad Chambliss is going to play. And that's the same thing for Kiwan Lacey. If you're Kwan Lacey and the money is similar, right? And you're at Ole Miss already and you're an icon at Ole Miss. And Ole Miss is winning the games that Ole Miss is winning and you've helped take them as far as they've ever gone and maybe farther than they'll ever go. And the money's the same. I imagine he's got someone in his ear saying, hey, listen, man, like it would behoove you to just ride this thing out at Ole Miss.

You're going to get similar money. You'll be a legend here forever. If you leave, they may view you differently here, and maybe you're not the legend. But you have a chance to be a legend here. Same with Trinidad Chambliss, who's probably not going to be an NFL quarterback. You are going to be guys who for years and years and years can go to any Walmart and fucking bum fuck nowhere in Mississippi and sign fucking autographs or go to a car dealership and sign autographs and people will fawn over you.

There's no reason for those guys to go to LSU. None. You're already at a place. It would look bad if you entered the transfer portal now. There's no reason to do it. This idea that, well, look, who's winning? Look, Pete Golding was the brains of it all along. It's all bullshit.

You know, I see, and I saw this other thing today, that Kurt Signetti is the portal king. Well, one thing I will give them credit for, and the people who own the portal is, I said this a couple of years ago, I think. We were doing a pod one day, and I'm like, why the fuck, if you can get guys out of the transfer portal and you can spend money now? Why would you give two shits about the high school players you recruit? Like, I'd like to know how many high school players who are recruited somewhere stay there for one year, two years, three years, four years. I'd like to know the number of high school football players who are recruited to major universities stay only one year and then leave.

Like, what is the average? I'd like to know the average number of years, a high profile recruit stays. at the school that sign them out of high school. Like, obviously you have to do high school recruiting. I'm aware you have to do high school recruiting. Like, I get all that. That's, I get it. Like, you're not just going to, you can't rely on 70 dudes out of the transfer portal.

You have to have some guys. And yes, some of those guys do stay. And some of the guys you pick up in the portal as sophomores may stay for three years. Like, I get there's varying levels of this. But if you're like, I just want to know the average. On average, how many years do players who are recruited, straight out of high school and sign as freshmen, how many years do they, on average, stay at a school?

Because a couple years ago, I said, like, yeah, like you want to sign great high school classes, cool, that's great. But, like, what does it matter when you can just go to the portal and find guys who are already established? Like, look at Indiana, the last two years. What has Indiana done? They got Fernando Mendoza who just won the Hizman. Mendoza was a very good player at Cal.

I know this because I used to bet on him. But Fernando Mendoza was a very good player at Cal. They just signed Josh Hoover from TCU, I think, out of Indiana just signed Josh Hoover. Josh Hoover, huge stat gobbler at TCU. But those guys are proven commodities that you know can play. Like Joe Burrow, actually, Joe Burrow wasn't a proven commodity when he went to LSU because he didn't play at Ohio State. But like you see these guys consistently.

And if you know these guys can play, well, what gives you a better shot of winning? Hoping that some freshman or second year guy is going to have, you know, an amazing run. or do you go sign some guy in the portal that's a proven winner that's in his fifth year and can help you in now? I mean, hell, Jaden Daniels was a portal guy at LSU and he won the Heisman at LSU. It was a nice player at Arizona State. Nobody thought that he was some sort of rock star. I mean, he was fine. Like, when he signed with LSU, it was, oh, cool.

Like, that's cool. Nobody knew he was going to win the Heisman. But if you have the option of signing high school dudes who I would guess, I have to find that number. Like on hour, I wonder if chat GPT knows. I'm going to type this in. on average, how many years do high school football players stay at the college who signed them? That might be too wordy. But let's see.

Let's see. Now, see, that just gives me an in general. Like high school football players typically stay in college for three to four years, often using red shirt, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, I want to know, on average, how long do these guys stay? Because there's not a rule about how long they have to stay, right? Like they should make it where it's like two or three years or whatever. They won't do that, right? So how long, on average, do these dudes stay at these schools after they are recruited out of high school?

Like last year when everybody lost their minds that LSU lost out on Bryce Underwood because he took $4 million a year to go play at Michigan and he's staying another year at Michigan. If he didn't end up liking the coach here, he's going to leave next year. He probably would have let, let's say LSU would have signed. signed Bryce Underwood last year. He would have come to LSU and played for Brian Kelly, and they still fire Brian Kelly. Do you think he would have stayed? So you're better off, especially at the quarterback position, just going out and getting hired guns. Like, yeah, you want to kind of, you want to build the roster through high school, especially if you're at a place like LSU or Alabama, a place

where you've got big time resources and tons of talent throughout the South. You're going to go, like, you can't not sign good high school classes. Like, you can't be the coach at Alabama and be like, well, our recruiting class was 30th. But, you know, we went to the. portal you can't do that like it just for optics you have to go out and sign big time players and hope to keep them as long as you can and there's going to be natural uh you know situations where people like you just sign a ton of talented players not everybody's going to get on the field some are going to leave that's just natural but i to me it makes so much sense to focus portal portal portal portal in this new world of college football and stop obsessing over who you sign for your high school

recruiting classes because big picture who gives a fuck because those dudes are going to leave anyway so who gives shit but so anyway um that's where we are with that i find the old miss people to be insufferable they're going to get their comeuppets in some point i hope they fucking get their asses kicked by miami and then next year i hope they go eight and fucking four like let's like i don't think it's unfair to say what hat like they're all swinging their dicks trinidad chamble's let's say he gets that other year of eligibility and stays at old miss his offensive coordinator is gone his head coach is gone his head coach was the mastermind of the offense right his offensive coordinator's gone so what are you going to do

like do we just anticipate that trinidad chamblis who's a product of this system that he's in do we think that trinidad chamblis is just gonna like he's just gonna magically be the same guy he was i don't know maybe but maybe not so all that to say fuck the old miss people they're annoying they will get their comeuppance you will always remain in the gutter because that's who you are you're just a gutter program much like they're like texas tech like they want to be big boys so they find some donors and these donors spend all this money, but at the end of the day, Texas Tech is still Texas Tech. I don't care that they sign Brandon, Braden, Sorsby, or whoever from Cincinnati,

I don't give a shit. Just like I don't give a shit about what Ole Miss is doing right now. People can have a moment. Sustain it. Do it for years and years and years. Do it without your head coach who left. Like Texas Tech was the ultimate farce. Oh, Texas Tech spent all this money on this defensive line.

Then you know what happened to them in the playoffs? They didn't score a fucking point. Texas Tech will never be Texas. it will never be Texas A&M. There will still be haves and have-nots. You can make the have-nots more relevant than they were. You can have a Texas Tech spend enough money to get into a college football playoff situation because they play in a shitty conference and they got some money.

And Ole Miss can have a moment where they spend some money and get into the college football playoff and the more it expands, the more teams are going to get in. It doesn't mean they're real contenders. Texas Tech was a joke and I still don't believe in Ole Miss big picture long term either. So anyway, more to come.