The Josh Innes Show - The Attack On Lane Kiffin Part 3: Who Is Lane Rooting For Tonight?

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

I know I went really in depth on this Kiffin stuff. What do you want? I turned on the mic and talked for 45 mins. Sue me. In the final installment, I try to figure out if Lane is actually pulling for Ole Miss tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So as Lane Kiffin sits there and watches the ball game today, and as Lane Kiffin is, I'm going to guess, like, it is interesting. Like, I wonder if Kiffin is legitimately rooting for Ole Miss or not. Like, financially he is. Like, I don't know how much of what he does on social media and, like, all the, you know, rooting for the SIP and Trinidad Chambliss and I hope he still gets a six year. Like, I don't think Lane's an authentic person. I think he's a fucking bad shit. He's probably on the spectrum. Like, I think, like, the guy does so much shit that I get why.

people don't like it. If he's your coach, you'll accept it. If he's the other team's coach, you'd be like, this guy's an asshole. Like when he posted the picture, you know, on his dog's account, you know, the SEC championship or whatever. Like the guy does shit that I can see, makes you go, what the fuck, bro? Do better. But I wonder if he's watching tonight and Kiffin legitimately wants them to win. Now, obviously, he stands to make some cash for every one of these wins. I forgot how much money he can win. Let me find the actual number. How much money can lay Kiffin make if Ole Miss wins. Let's see. If Ole Miss wins the college football playoff national championship,

Lane Kiffin, the coach at LSU, can make a total of $1 million in bonuses paid by LSU as part of his new deal. In addition to his substantial LSU salary, stemming from his old Ole Miss contract incentives, he's already earned 500,000 from Ole Miss's run to the semifinals, with $150K for making the CFP, $250 for the quarter finals and $500 for the semifinals. So if they make it to the national championship game, $750,000, total $1.65,000 capped at $1 million total. So he can still make more money from this. So obviously for financial reasons, I mean, there's a very good reason. How much of the rooting he's doing on social media is because he truly gives a shit about, you know,

the team and how much of it is he just wants to make money and he wants to look good and save face on the internet. Obviously, it's a bad move because no matter what he does, he's a villain, he's the bad guy. But I wonder if he's legitimately like me, and this is just how I operate because I'm a dumbass, right?

And I have all my priorities out of whack. If I were laying Kiffin, I think tonight, I don't even think, I know. I know that sitting there tonight I'd be rooting hard against Ole Miss, and I would want Ole Miss to get

fucking stomped. Because whether they win or lose, I'm getting shit on. Whether they win or lose, I'm the evil guy, and Pete Golding's the best guy on the planet, and everybody at Ole Miss is great, and all of their players are wonderful. Even though, of course, a lot of the players they got, they stole from some other team, like, I don't know, Kewan

Lacey. Like, boy, Kowan Lacey's so loyal to Ole Miss, and of course, you know, he was at, you know, Missou and left, but I mean, we don't care about that. I mean, loyalty, right? But, but I'd be rooting against them hard. But you know how I operate. I'm like a bitter-ish person.

I'm a petty-ish person. You could argue I'm a super petty person. I mean, hell, today I was sitting in the radio station and I was looking at radio ratings from other cities. And I look at all the stations and companies that I've worked for and I look at how their numbers are, and I want them all to fail. some to a higher degree than others. Like I'll look at like Hubbard Radio, for instance,

who fired me after 15 months at Kishi 95, and they acted like they were the greatest company ever and they care about people. They were the biggest, like they were the frauds. Like I talk about places that I've worked. Like I don't believe IHart people are frauds. I heart knows what it is. And I heart, like I think people know what IHart is.

And IHart's kind of like the laying Kiffin in this. No matter what IHart does, IHart get shit on, while everybody else does the same shit. but Hubbard pretended to be this kind of holier than thou. We care about our people. We're still local. And I heart fires people all the time. Only for Hubbard to fire me.

Not just me. They fired a bunch of people. And then like they're putting dudes on in multiple markets like Iheart does. It's the same shit. But nobody ever calls them out for it. So them I really root against. They can go fuck themselves. Other stations, it varies.

Right? Like, I don't really root against WIP. I've been gone from there for 10 years, right? I guess, yeah, 10 years. We're coming up on 10 years that I got whacked there. It's been 9 plus years since I got fired there. I don't give a fuck. Like, that's out of sight, out of mind, it's over.

I do root against 790, but you don't have to root against 790 because 790 doesn't try. So it's like picking on somebody in a wheelchair. They don't give a fuck, you know? So I don't root against 610 at all, actually. Like, I have nothing against them. left them, you know, so why would I root against them? I took a better gig. You know, I don't root against them. I do root against, I don't root against the Rock Station in Nashville, but, you know, there's a part of me that, like, I'm pissed that I left initially because I was making good

money there and we had ratings. I was getting bonuses and endorsements. I was doing pretty good. And then I went to St. Louis. Really, the one I root against, the two that I root against the most are 790 in Houston and Hubbard in St. Louis. I want them to fail. because I think they were shitty. And they were just full of shit. That was the part that bothered me. Like, I don't think that 790 was ever full of shit. It was just a bad situation.

And I don't even dislike the people there so much. I just don't want them to have any success. But I don't have to wish that. Like, I don't have to hope for that because their ineptitude will, like, they're not going to ever have success. They don't want success. They will never be successful there. So why the fuck does it matter?

Like, I don't have to wish for that. Like, Kashi, I'd like to see crash and burn. It won't, but I'd like to see that. Hubbard overall, like all their little stations, I'd like to see them fail. They may, they may not, but like I'm rooting against them more so, probably more so than anybody. So if I'm Lane, and I'm Kiffin sitting there today, and I'm like watching that game, knowing that there's hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake, like there's a lot of cash money that could be in your pocket, but you're rich anyway. Like, real talk, like, and there's nothing that's, you know, that's small about making 400,000. or half a million dollars. Half a million dollars still half a million dollars. Doesn't matter

who you are. I mean, half a million dollars to a billionaire is still half a million dollars. That's a lot of cash. So, you know, adding a half a million dollars doesn't suck. But if you're laying Kiffin and you're sitting there tonight, do you want them to win or do you want them to lose? Knowing that no matter which way it goes, it's going to be against you. Knowing that if you, if they win, they'll say they did it in spite of you and that you weren't really all that good and they didn't need you to win and that you were overrated and everything you did does not matter. Every single thing Lane Kiffin did at Ole Miss does not matter. The teams he built, the coaches he hired, players he brought in, money he raised, none of it

matters. None. but if you lose the team lost because you weren't there and you're an asshole and if you would have been there and not screwed those poor kids and they'll play the poor they love to play the poor kids angle the media except for this DeMond Williams Jr.

They don't like to play the poor kid angle with DeMond Williams Jr. He's like the only guy that people are just going to call a piece of shit, right? Like, I can't believe he left and you've got to learn to honor your contracts. None of these people care about honoring contracts until DeMond Williams Jr. decides to go play football at LSU. Once DeMond Williams Jr. decided, or allegedly, who knows if he's, unless something's changed and I haven't seen it so far today. But if DeMond Williams Jr. ends up going to LSU, since he's going to join Kiffin and Kiffin's Hitler, apparently, then this kid's a piece of shit, too, right? Like this player, I'm not going to call him a kid. I don't like calling these guys kids. They're adults and they're out there making money.

And I refuse to call so I'm making $5 million to go play what's basically professional football. I'm not going to call him a kid. Sorry, not going to do that. But they love to act like these guys are all victims until this one guy decides to roll out and go to LSU potentially and play with Lange Kiffin. Now he's just a piece of shit. The rest of them are kids.

Those poor kids, those poor kids at LSU that got screwed over by their coach, that piece of shit, Lane Kiffin, can you believe it? But they're not kids when they leave Washington. Mind you, DeMond Williams Jr. also left Arizona to follow his coach to Washington. but now he's a piece of shit. I've seen, dude, I've seen some people posting about this DeMond Williams Jr., like media people in Seattle that are like, I hope nothing but bad things for him and his family. I'm like, bro, what the fuck, dude?

Like, I'm with you in the sense that like, hey, these dudes need to have legit contracts and have to honor these contracts. The shit they're writing these contracts on now, these aren't like, these aren't employment agreements. These are like NIL deals. They ain't worth a pot to piss in. You might as well write them on toilet paper. They ain't worth shit. So, if I'm lame, though, I'm watching tonight and I want them to lose, and I kind of want them to just get dick slapped. Like, I want them to be out of the game from the jump.

I want Miami to return the opening kickoff and then intercept the next pass, and it's 14-0, 13 minutes to go on the first quarter. I just want it to be an onslaught. Because if I'm going to get blamed either way and I'm not going to get any credit no matter what, then they might as well just get their dick stomps so at least I can feel some joy. Like, who gives a fuck? Oh, great. I'm laying Kiff. I've already made one. How much so he already made from this? They said, what? 500,000, right? So 150,000 and 250,000. So he's already made 500,000 to, he's fine. If not more. What's an extra, you know, 750,000? It's nice. It's capped out at a million, so it doesn't matter. But like, nice, cool. But who gives a fuck? You know, like, I hope they lose. I would want them to lose so bad.

And then I would go, and then you're always going to do it when they lose? If I'm Lane, because at this point, might as well just totally embrace it because they hate you anyway. The second the game is over, either congratulate them for the win or say, man, rough shot there, but man, I'm so proud of what the team did just to see the react. Because that's what Lane does. He's a troll. He's on the spectrum and he's a troll. That's how he gets his jolly. So, Lord, it's a, the whole thing is.

Like, I'll be glad when it's over, but I will be watching tonight wanting Ole Miss to just get slaughtered. It's all I want. And what I also want? And that's made me root for Lane even more because what other choice do I have? Like, I don't like the guy, but I need him to win. I'm rooting for him to win. I need him to be successful, right? Like, that's kind of the place I'm at right now.

Like, I need Lane Kiffin to dominate at LSU. I don't need nine and three, 10 and two. Like, I need Lane Kiffin to be. new Nick Saban. If Lane Kiffin's not new Nick Saban, the whole thing's a fucking failure. With all this drama that's gone down, dude's got to go out and crush. But imagine being in his spot, no matter what you do,

you're going to be the shithead. So you might as well embrace it, right? Anyway, more to come.