The Josh Innes Show - Vegas Odds for Next LSU Coach

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

The top candidate for the LSU job is actually a really good one..if you believe Vegas. I'd love to see LSU steal Lane Kiffin. Damn that would be fun. LSU doesn't need the biggest name. LSU needs the right fit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Go get fun. Ha! Goodbye! So one of the guys that's at the top of the list, this is the number one, according to the odds, this is Vegas odds, is John Sumroll. Now, if you don't know who John Sumroll is, John Sumroll is the coach at Tulane. And I'm not totally against this because he's a younger dude, right? He's 43, so he's a relatively young guy, got a good attitude, and he's one of these dudes that he's coaching at a smaller school like Tulane.

Tulane is a bit more of a player now than they used to be. But I'm kind of in the mood to see LSU take a shot on somebody who's on the come-up. When's the last time LSU hired a football coach who was someone who was ascending, someone who hadn't established themselves at a major conference program, someone that you're taking a shot on that's never gotten this kind of opportunity before? You haven't. I mean, Sabin was coaching at Michigan State. And like you can argue that, you know, Sabin wasn't somebody who got these

that hasn't gotten these big shots before. But he coached at Michigan State, and he was a well-known name. Same with Les Miles. Les Miles was at Oklahoma State. But he wasn't some young dude, younger-ish dude that was on his way up the ladder. He had kind of established himself. LSU has not hired somebody like this. I heard Coach O then they hired Brian Kelly.

LSU has not really been in the market for younger dude who's not making a ton of cash now, who's certainly accomplished, has a system that works in a certain place. and does big. So I'm not against that guy who obviously knows Louisiana because he's coached there and he's coached at Tulane. He's a guy that has that kind of tie to the state. He's got Tulane playing really good football. And he's had a great job at Troy, move from Troy to Tulane.

Like, I'm not against this. I'd be okay with that. Like, I'm kind of in the camp of like, I don't need LSU to go big game hunting. Like, I don't think they need to, right? Like, I think some schools need to. Like I think now Florida needs to land a whale because Florida tried the, hey, we're taking the coach at ULL and we're going to bring him to Florida, and it bombed. You know, they tried it with the McElwain, who was the coach at, where was he the coach? Was he at Wyoming or Colorado State?

Wherever McElwain was the coach. They got him and it failed, right? You know, they've never really gone big game hunting. I think Florida's going to have to do everything they can because they need somebody because they've been a disaster. All right. So they have to go big game hunting. Maybe James Franklin, who knows? They need to land a big name and probably an expensive name.

LSU doesn't need to do that. I don't think LSU's in a position now where they tried that world. Find someone who's a cultural fit. Someone that's good. Don't hire a stiff just because they say laissez-le-le-le-le-old-ru-le. But like, go hire somebody who gets the area, gets the culture, understands the culture, and can win that way. I'm not against that. Like, I was talking to a buddy of mine who's like, I think LSU is above just going out and hiring, you know,

the big up-and-coming guy. Why not? You tried to hire the $11 million a year in Notre Dame coach, and it failed. Nobody liked him. So why not? I'm not against it. I'm okay with that. Because if the guy can coach ball, the guy can fucking coach ball. And look at the guys that are out there winning games right now. You know the previous coach? You wonder who the previous coach at Tulane was? A guy by the name of Willie Taggart. All right. So Willie Taggart used to be the coach where? Tulane. Where is he the coach? Sorry, not Willie Tagger. That's a dumb. Not Willie Tagger. Willie Tagger, I think it was a shitty coach at Florida State. Willie Fritz. My bad. Willie Fritz. So Willie Fritz. Willie Fritz was the coach at Tulane before this guy. You know where Willie Fritz is now? Willie Fritz is the coach of the Houston Cougars. The Houston Cougars who are right now playing balls out football and playing their dicks off right now and are playing great football in the Big 12. So just throwing that out there. So Willie Fritz has gone from Georgia Southern to Tulane to Houston and is doing well in all those places. He's not a young guy by any means.

He's a guy that's in his mid-60s. So it's a different kind of thing. It's a different situation there with Willie Fritz. But look at this guy. You got a guy that's gone from Troy to Tulane. I'm not against it. I understand that U of age is not LSU. I get it.

But why not? Like, why not take a shot? I don't need you to go higher an $11 million a year guy. I don't need you to go big game hunting or whale hunting, unless that is someone who's truly an accomplished person. And as we start to look at more of the list, Joe Brady is number two. Joe Brady has ties. He was the guy that was on the staff whenever they won the championship. He's in the pros now.

Here's what I wonder about Joe Brady. And I don't know this from anybody. Nobody's told me this is just a vibe I get. I've never gotten the Joe Brady thing. Like, I don't know. He feels too almost like buttoned up. I don't like the Joe Brady thing. If he gave me the option to John Somerall, who's winning at Tulane, gets Louisiana,

recruits Louisiana already, I'd go there. Joe Brady doesn't appeal to me. Maybe I'll be wrong, and maybe he'll be brilliant. I don't know what. LSU didn't see him all that in love with him before. I don't know, man. I can't fully express it, but I don't feel that for that guy. Then Lane Kiffin is 4 to 1.

Look, you go get Lane Kiffin. set the world on fire. Let's fuck the world up. And for everything you read is that Lane Kiffin, like, this is the job he would take. Like, he wouldn't take Florida really, like Florida. He wouldn't leave Ole Miss for Florida. But LSU, he would. Dude, get Lane there, and let's start talking shit.

Let's build, like, you know what I'm envious of Ole Miss? They have a vibe. Is Ole Miss going to win the championship? Well, fuck, they might. And they just went on the road and beat Oklahoma. They were tit for tat with Georgia a few weeks ago, could have should have won up, but they had a freshman quarterback couldn't get it done. But he's a freshman quarterback in a huge environment. Couldn't get a

big fucking deal it happens could all miss win the whole thing fucking right they could so like let's go dude dude like i'd circle lane and say give it to me james franklin at six and one fuck no i'd like and this is not an anti james franklin thing because i don't hate him as much as the next guy like i think he's fine and i like him he's a likable guy but no thank you i don't need james franklin like james franklin had all the resources at penn state and couldn't get it done james franklin's going to have to take the kind of gig that's like a step below that i think Now, if Florida hired him, do I think it'd be terrible? No, I said they need to go big game hunting.

They need a whale. I don't think LSU needs to hire a whale. I don't think that's what you need to do. You need to hire someone that can win football games and build a culture that the fan base wants to be a part of. That is the most important thing. Eli Drinkwitz, I just don't believe there's a universe where a gentleman by the name of Eli Drinkwitz is going to be the coach at LSU.

Maybe I'll be wrong, but visor wearing guy that looks like, you know, somebody who, like he just looks like a, I don't even know how to put it with the visor and everything. He doesn't look like an LSU coach, but maybe that would make him the right coach. I don't know. He's obviously a very brilliant guy who's done amazing things at Missouri, which was a dead program. So give him credit. And look, would he be a terrible hire? No. I just, I don't feel that. Maybe I'll be wrong, but I just don't feel that. Jeff Brom, no. Brent Key is a name that people keep bringing up here, and he's at Georgia Tech. That could be a guy that kind of gives you a little bit of that vibe, too. He's a southern dude.

so he might get the vibes there a little bit, and he's done well at Georgia Tech, so that could be a thing. Like, I do think LSU, and whether this is fair or unfair, because really you just want to hire the best candidate. But LSU is a different universe, and I think after hiring some guy that you hired explicitly to be a CEO, doesn't really give a shit about anybody there in the state, it doesn't have any ties to it, but it's just there to be a hired gun to win championships, I think you need to hire someone that has a look of someone that would coach at LSU. Am I wrong? Like, that's what you need.

Like, sometimes the optics are going to matter. Sometimes you don't need the most buttoned down, accomplished coach. What you need is someone who gets the area and, like, looks like a guy that would coach at LSU. Obviously, he has to be a good coach. Like, I see Kenny Dillingham. People keep up by Kenny Dillingham, who's the coach currently at Arizona State. I don't feel that. Clark Lee at Vanderbilt.

I don't really feel that. And again, Jimbo Fish or something. If LSU hired Jimbo Fisher, get fucked. I will set everything I have, all of it's on fire. Urban Meyer, Marcus, not wouldn't that be funny if they hired Marcus Freeman? Like Notre Dame be like, fuck. I don't think that'll happen, but it'd be something. I don't think, that's the thing.

Show your medal. Like, if you notice the most successful hires that this Scott Woodward has made, they're big game hunting, right? Like, he hired Kim Mulkey to win championships at LSU, but that was an easy hire. Hired Jay Johnson, fine. What did he do it all at A&M? Was he responsible for hiring Buzz, Buzz as well, Buzz Williams? The guy goes out and hires big games.

He hires the big names and gives them money. It doesn't always mean you're going to win. It didn't happen at LSU. So show your fucking medal and go out and actually vet these people and see if someone's a qualified candidate for the job and see if they're a fit culturally. I'm like, I'm a big believer in that. LSU is not the kind of place that you just,

You have to feel like that person is part of what you do. Or they have to be really fucking good. And Kelly was neither one of those. Look, I'd like to see Coach O back on the staff. Coach O said he's willing to be a defensive line coach. Can you imagine the universe where Coach O is the defensive line coach? Go toggle. God, that'd be fantastic.

It's not going to happen. But it'd be fantastic. Like, they're not going to go, hey, by the way, we fired you and please come back. They're not going to do that. But it would be fun. More to come.