The Josh Innes Show - The Ole Miss/Kiffin Saga Continues

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

I have made the mistake of allowing myself to be sucked in to the seedy world of Twitter. I try to get out. But, I get pulled back in. I've never really had issue with Ole Miss in the past. But, due to the fact the fans are imbeciles, I now hate them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, everybody, welcome in. It is all up, and I'm glad you guys listen to the podcast. I truly appreciate it. You guys are wonderful, your beautiful people. And I love you so much as we get ready for the NFL playoffs, college football playoffs. Today, Wednesday, which means we got college football playoff again tomorrow with Ole Miss, and I hope they get their fucking dicks knocked off. Yes.

Let's play a couple commercials here. Let's get the commercials out of the way and let's get into the conversation, shall we please? I never really gave a shit about Ole Miss, right? Like as a sports fan, like as a kid growing up in Louisiana. And really, I wasn't like a kid in my great formative years there. Like I was, you know, 12, 13, 14, so I was, you know, in my early teens or whatever. And then I went through high school and college there. As an LSU fan, the teams that concerned me the most, really, honestly, when I was really into it in my youth, it was Auburn.

Because Auburn and LSU seemed to always swap the SEC West Championship. Bama was sort of out of sight, out of mind. And when I had gotten there, Bama was already out of sight, out of mind, right? Arkansas, I don't care about the golden boot. Arkansas was always a waste of time for LSU. There were no real rivals in that way, because LSU doesn't have a true rival, right? And they never will, right? There's Tulane, cool.

But they're like the unique state that doesn't have to battle with anybody else in the state for recruits or anything like that. They are the prime big dog and just happen to be a gigantic university and huge football program and don't have to battle with anybody else for anything. So it's amazing. Ole Miss also never concerned me. And I know that Ole Miss is a rival and historic rival and they now have a name for the game they play against each other and blah, blah, blah. Great, fine, cool.

But as this whole thing's played out with Lane Kiffin, I really developed a real hatred for Ole Miss. I don't even know that I like Lane. Like we've talked about this on here. I don't know that I even like Lane Kiffin. I don't know that I like the way this whole thing played out. Like, it just feels shitty. Like, the whole thing feels inauthentic, right?

Like, it feels natural when a guy leaves, I don't know, guy leaves, like, Billy Napier. When Billy Napier leaves a Louisiana Lafayette to go to Florida, that's a natural progression. It's obviously a step up. Like, it's natural, right? laying kiffin leaving old miss and going to lSU like lSU is a better job make no mistake you can sit there and shit on lsu right now and say look at old miss they're in the college football player great old miss is not as good a job as lsu and it never will be as good of a job as lsu and for all the reasons i stated lsu owns the state recruiting wise doesn't have to compete with anybody in the state they got the money they got everything look lsu is a better job than all miss period fine But everything about this whole thing has felt weird.

And now you've got this constant back and forth. And with our player, coach is going to coach there, coach here. Our players now leaving LSU to go there. Is Lane going to be able to get the guys from Ole Miss to come to LSU? But as I talk about all the time, it's the fans that make or break me when it comes to how I feel about things. Like, I don't give a shit one way or the other about the Eagles. Like if the Eagles win, great. If they lose, whatever, I don't care.

But when I was in Philadelphia, I hated them because of the reactions I would get from people, right? people would be assholes and if you offered your opinion on the team and they didn't like that, they would tell you that you suck. And like, that's why I hated the Eagles. I don't give a shit about the Eagles. Now that I'm kind of out of side out of mind on the Philly stuff, I don't give a shit. Like, I'm like, if they win, great, they lose. I don't hate them as much as I did, like when I was there. I don't hate a lot of, like I used to hate the Houston Rockets, right? Because they made my life miserable. They wanted to get me fired. I'm not there. I'm not involved with it anymore. Don't really give a shit. Most of the people that were associated with the

franchise aren't there anymore. I don't give a shit, right? but when I start dealing with the fans of teams is when I start to hate them. And now my algorithm is just loaded with people who are just fucking morons. And as you start to deal with fucking morons, that's one of my biggest pet peeves. And I understand that fans, short for fanatical, all that shit, so you can't expect fans to be level-headed on stuff. Everything is either the biggest thing that's ever happened or the worst thing that's ever happened. Everything is either great for the school or the worst thing. There is no gray area.

We talk about that all the time on this podcast. There's always a place that's gray, yet we never hear about it because it's either the greatest thing or the worst thing ever, right? Fine. But the shit I've been reading from these Ole Miss people. Like, I read one thing the other day, and we talked about it, like the winning the divorce thing that I went off on. Like, of course, Lane Kiven is losing the divorce currently. He left the biggest cupboard full ever. Like, when have you ever seen that? A guy leaves because he has no choice but to leave.

He wants to take the other job. So he leaves the job he's in. You will never see this kind of thing. These are things that you will never see. But what you end up with is you end up with like a guy, no one knows if Pete Golding's going to be any good. No one knows if he's going to be good long term. No one knows how he recruits. No one knows how he really works in the portal because this is not a true.

Like this is a very unique situation. We may never see this again because they may adjust the whole clock and the whole calendar. So this never happens again because this is a cluster fuck on many levels. never seen anything like it. Probably never will again. But you've seen nothing from Pete Golding that proves anything. Well, look, like, I love the argument. Oh, Lane probably wouldn't have won that game against Georgia. Why? Those are all his fucking players. Oh, fun fact, the guy who's calling the plays in the press box is going to fucking LSU. So, like, it's, I hate people who are idiots, which is a, social media is a bad place to be when you hate idiots. Because

social media is nothing but idiots. We know that social media is nothing but idiots. But let's look at it this way. So you've got a group of people at Ole Miss, fan base. And everything that's happening for them right now has never happened before. It may never happen again. So they're in this euphoric state. But everything that they are doing is still because of Lane Kiffin. Like a couple of dudes flip from LSU to Ole Miss. Well, that's because LSU didn't retain the recruiting guy, the coach, he ends up going to Ole Miss. Some of the guys may jump over there to coach them. Some may just want to tell Lane Kiffin to go fuck himself.

You've got Ole Miss that's in a position where they want to embarrass LSU, so they're going to go try to take as many people from LSU as possible. Anybody that will come that they want that will come from LSU to Ole Miss, they want because they want Lane Kiffin to look like shit. It is an extremely petty situation. Like if you want a real great breakdown of this shit, listen to my buddy Matt. You may not even care because you're not LSU fans or Ole Miss fans. But, like, it's not even about that.

Like, this is a fascinating thing that, to me, is a bigger picture issue than just LSU, Ole Miss, some regional rivalry or whatever. Like, this is a bigger thing than that because I think this is going to permanently impact what the college football world looks like. I think this alters that moving forward because I think it's going to alter the calendar. It's going to impact a lot of stuff. But Ole Miss is currently trying to make LSU look like shit. And by the way, Lane has done a pretty.

good job on his own of making LSU look like shit. And I understand that it's easy to sit back now because Lane Kiffin left for greener pastures. So when he gets turned down by one quarterback who goes to Texas Tech, it's easy to say, oh, I thought LSU was a better job. Or, you know, if

Trinidad Chambliss decides to stay at Ole Miss instead of going to LSU, instead of looking at reasons for it, it's just, oh, I thought it was a better situation. Lane thought he was going to steal all these guys. Kewan Lacey. Like, great. You kept, like, real talk, fucking running backs and college football and in the pros are a dime a

fucking dozen, bro. So like the idea that Lane is now failing at LSU and it's embarrassing for LSU because he wasn't able to get Kwan Lacey. There are 5,000 Kwan Lacey's out there. Talented dudes that can run the football. And when you look at it statistically,

like very few of these guys end up becoming like the Sequin Barclay who's the true blue like elite dude or the Derek Henry's of the world. Very few of those guys exist. Most guys that run the football are going to be guys that you could find at any local high school, super talented guys. LSU's been finding them for a hundred years.

So he wanted Kwan Lacey. He loves Kwan Lacey, and you'd like to have him if you're LSU. But is the world really over for LSU because they didn't get a dude that, you know, that Lane thought he was going to be able to get? No. But if you're an Ole Miss person, you get to sit back and go, oh, we kept another one of our guys. Lane sucks.

And I know it's impossible to do this right now because we're in the middle of it. but tell me what happens in three years. Tell me what happens in four years. Tell me what happens when Pete Golding has to be the head coach and do everything for four years and he's not just walking into this idealistic, perfect situation. Tell me what happens when that happens. Because right now you're on the honeymoon and everybody you resign at Ole Miss is a condemnation against Lane. Every time you're able to pull a guy from LSU that's going to come to Ole Miss because you want to make LSU look bad,

It makes you look great, and you can swing your dicks over it, and life is good. Fine. Tell me what's going to happen in three years. Tell me what's going to happen in four years. Tell me what's going to happen tomorrow when I pray. I pray Miami beats Ole Miss. And not just beats them. I want Miami to peck or slap them.

I want Miami to bend them over, and I want it to be the gimp. I want them to get gimp. I want this to be prison style. That's what I want to happen to Ole Miss. Because I've hit a point where I'm just annoyed by them. And then if you say that, it's, oh, cry tears, LSU. No, that ain't it. I'm not some lunatic fan about this shit.

Like, I'm not some diehard homer or whatever. Like, I look at shit pretty rationally. I'm a fairly rational person when it comes to talking about teams and things that I like. I'm almost too rational when it comes to this shit. I'm just fucking sick of you. You need to be put in your place. I want to see what your boy Pete Golding does when he has to go find new offensive coordinator, when he has to be the guy that's in charge of the whole program.

I'm not saying he's going to fail. I like the guy. I dig his look. He's got a vibe about him. I dig him. But what happens when you have to take the other route? And it's not just, oh, like we're in the middle of this us against the world, which is a beneficial thing. When you've got an us against the world feel, it benefits you greatly.

Or like when the saints had to come back and play the year after Katrina and everybody was kind of rooting for them. Like there's a benefit to that. There's a benefit mentally to the world. world rooting for you because they hate Lane Kiffin. Like there is a positive. That is not a negative. There's not a negative about this situation. Like the idea that like the team sucks or that Lane

sucks and it was proven because they won a college football playoff game against Georgia. Big fucking deal. Lane may have won that game. They damn near beat them earlier this year. They just didn't do anything in the fourth quarter. But of course you find every little detail about that. Did you say Lane would have done this differently this differently? We would have lost that game.

You don't know that. It's a fucking stupid take. It's a dumb take and they know it's a dumb take, but they're inbred dipshits. And that's what they do. The internet is filled with imbred dipshits. Just inbred morons. I think I said imbred. Inbred.

But like, I don't know. And what does it mean for the big picture? Then you start looking around college football and it's like, well, like the latest story was the one out of Washington where Desmond Williams or DeMond Williams, sorry, DeMond Williams, signed a deal to come back to Washington, but then has now decided not to, and the idea is that someone tampered, maybe at LSU tampered because LSU liked the guy, or sorry, Lane Kiffin liked the guy years ago and blah, blah, blah. Actually, that's another thing to get into, and we can get into that. Like, I know I keep going off on this LSU shit. And it's like, I know I say this all the time.

the internet is truly the worst place because the internet will make you hate everybody on the planet. I currently hate everybody on the planet. And I hate Elon and whoever at Twitter has decided, hey, we're going to feed everybody's algorithm with shit that we know is going to piss them off. And I hate myself for taking the bait. I think that's the biggest issue. Like I'm never going to get scammed by people. I'm never going to

you know, think that Sidney Sweeney wants me to give her the pipe or anything like that. I'm not stupid enough to believe that. I'm not a moron. But I am dumb enough to just get myself into these arguments with people because I hate them and they are stupid. And I can't avoid stupid. And when it feeds the algorithm, when the algorithm keeps spitting stupid at me, it's like, God damn it, I have to fight with these people. And I don't want to. That's not the life I want to live. But anyway, we shall continue after this.