The Josh Innes Show - Why Would Lane Kiffin Leave Ole Miss?

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

Florida has fired Coach Billy Napier. The sexiest name attached to the job is Lane Kiffin. Kiffin would be a moron to leave Ole Miss for that gig. Sometimes, where you are is the place you should be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk, business. And speaking of college football coaching and dudes getting fired, the dufous, Billy Napier got fired at Florida. I don't even know if he is a dupus, but he just looks like a dufus. There's some people you look at and you just hate the look of him. And I really hate the look of this Billy Napier, but he got whacked in Florida. And I think Florida's a joke.

Like, Florida's just firing people every three years at this point. Like, how many coaches has Florida had? since they whacked, or since Urban Meyer left. Let's see. Urban left, well, he's left, what, like 2009, 10? I think he left in like 10 or 11, then went back to Ohio State. Let's see here. Florida football coach history.

Let's see how many coaches they've had. I think three or four in the last 15 years. Let's see. So since Urban, Will Mush Champ, Jim McElwain, Dan Mullen and Billy Napier And if you count the interim They've had like six

But that's one, two, three Four head coaches Since 2011 So in the last 14 years Florida's had four head coaches Prior to that You know how many head coaches they had? Not many

I mean but in the years before that I guess they did because Zuck and Well Zuck and Urban Meyer And then he had Steve Spurrier Who was the coach for what was 11 or 12 years But the point being in this is you're not going to be successful hiring bad coaches

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and that Lane should go to Florida. Why the fuck would Lane Kiffin go to Florida? Like, Ole Miss ain't what Ole Miss used to be. Ole Miss may still struggle resource-wise, you know, compared to an LSU and Alabama, Florida, probably. Maybe a little bit. But, man, you're an SEC coach. You're making a shitload of money at Ole Miss.

You've built the program you want to have at Ole Miss. There's no pressure for you at Ole Miss because it's your program. Now, again, you lose eight games a couple years in a row, then you'll get fired, obviously. But if you're Lane Kiffin, what reasoning would there be for you to jump ship from Ole Miss and go to Florida? Like, what does Florida have that you don't have at Ole Miss? I guess you could argue, well, you know, they're in Florida and Florida's loaded with talent. That's true. Florida is the most talent-rich football state there is.

Outside of that, what do they have? Oh, they have 100,000 people at the game. Cool. You have big crowds at Ole Miss. Like, well, there's a lot of money. Great, you make a shitload of money at Ole Miss. And I watched the bio about Lane Kiffin, which I thought could have been longer and more detailed. It was very peripheral.

It was like 45 minutes. And you know how I feel about 45 minute documentaries. You know, I hate them. Like, give me two hours on somebody. Go in depth on somebody. Let me really learn something. But everything was very on the surface. And I hate surface level shit.

But so I'm watching this. And who knows how much of it's bullshit and not. But I guess there's no reason for him to be bullshit. I'm going to be full of shit. So I'm watching this and I'm hearing a guy that's happy where he is, a guy that's been a job hopper and a guy that's gotten fired at some places. And now he's found a place that he's comfortable and he's happy and his family's happy. And like he's the king of this town and they love him there.

And look, this weekend they lost, right? They played Georgia and lost. And that sucks. But nobody views Ole Miss as a failure because, first of all, the expectations at Ole Miss, I think the fans' expectations are always championships, and especially in the era of the playoff, I think that fans have different expectations for things, because it's possible. You know, in the era of the BCS, you know, two teams getting into the championship game and that was it, Ole Miss didn't really have those expectations, and they sucked.

But in the world of a playoff, when you're in the SEC and you're, you know, winning 10 games consistently, the idea of being in the playoff is very realistic, and fans have that realistic expectation for them, at Ole Miss now. And that's because Lane Kiffin has built that world. This isn't Houston Nut, and this isn't David Cutcliffe, and this isn't, you know, insert other doofus head coach that's in there. Like Lane has built a program. The program has a vibe. And, you know, whether or not they're ever going to win a national championship, you can debate that. But Ole Miss has every resource, for the most part, that you're going to get at Florida. Florida might have a little bit more money. Florida might have a better,

a more talented state. I mean, he's been a head coach in Florida, so he knows what that is. He was at FAU. But there is no reason for Lane Kiffin to leave Ole Miss to go to Florida. Florida has been a disaster job for the last 15 years. No one that's been the coach there has been successful. They've all gotten fired in pretty short order too. So, and I say no one's been successful.

They've won games, but not. to the level of an urban Meyer to the spurier level. Florida has never gotten to that level again. And may never. I don't know. They keep firing people. But if I'm laying Kiffin

and I can stay where I am or I can go to Florida, I'm staying where I am. There's something to be said about that. There's something to be said about staying where you are. There's something to be said about being comfortable somewhere. There's something to be said about getting tired of

moving. There's something to be said about your place, about you building something in your place. And that's what he's done. That's got to be the most badass feeling. Like, you didn't just inherit something at Florida. You went to Ole Miss, which is a perennial loser. For the most part, Ole Miss is a loser program that's never won anything significant. And no one's ever really cared about or taken seriously. You know, because you've had coaches like Coach O and Houston Nut and David Cutcliffe. Like, you know, guys who are fine, but you've never really been anything. And now you're something. And it's because of you. You've done that. You're out there beating LSU and you're doing it

on a rather consistent basis. You're beating $10 million a year, Brian Kelly. You know, you're going toe to toe with Georgia between the hedges this weekend. Like, I don't believe that if he goes to Florida, that increases the likelihood that he beats Georgia on a given weekend or Alabama on a given weekend. I don't believe that. Like, I don't believe that there's like, like, just, there's some obvious advantage to coaching at Florida other than, hey, you might get a few more talented players. Players, if, like, you've built something where they want to go play for you. Players want to play for Lane.

So going to Florida is not going to do anything different for that. So, like, I keep seeing it, like, got to go get Lane, got to go get Lane. Now, I would say this, if, like, LSU called, which LSU won't. But if LSU called, I'd say there'd be an, and again, this sounds like I'm self-serving here, but Florida's been a disaster of a program for 15 years, and they fire people after, you know, three years. I think there'd be an advantage to coaching at LSU. Like, LSU is a better job than Ole Miss. Lane has made Ole Miss a good job.

LSU is a better job. Florida, like, on the surface, is a better job than Ole Miss. Like, if you're a guy that's just, it's a blank slate, and you're a coach, and you're looking for a gig, and Florida's open, and Ole Miss is open. Florida is probably a better job than Ole Miss. Lane has made Ole Miss a great job. Lane has made Ole Miss a fun place. Like if you look at the coaching openings right now,

like you probably put Penn, I guess Florida would be the top. I'd say Florida would be the top opening even though they're a cluster fuck and then I'd put Penn State under them as a top opening. Then the other one's Arkansas, UCLA, some others, whatever. And there'll probably be some others, right? You're going to see other coaches getting whacked. You know, Florida just opened up. Other coaches are going to get fired around the country.

But as Virginia Tech open, I think Virginia Tech's open. But if I'm laying, look, I work in this in kind of a way, too, right? Like, I really haven't gotten to experience it because I haven't stayed anywhere long enough and built something. You know, not in a long time, I haven't, so it's kind of hard to do. But, like, I work in a field that's like that, too. I should have stayed in Nashville. I shouldn't have gone to St. Louis. St. Louis was the Florida.

St. Louis was the, oh, it's the bigger brand. It's the bigger name, the bigger history. But I had built something pretty nice in Nashville. But I'm nope, I was hell-bent. I had to get the fuck out of Nashville. I had to go to something seemingly bigger, right? I had to go to St. Louis. Then I get to St. Louis, and it was a different world, and I got fired in 15 months.

And now that job in Nashville's never coming back again. Although I think the PD there at one time tried, but they were, like nope not not doing it so you know like you you don't want to you have to be careful when you make these kind of decisions you have to be careful and you have to look at all the the options obviously and it must be fucking badass to be someone who took a nothing program and you've turned it into something and you've turned it into a vibe and you've turned it into a program that competes where there wasn't like what are you going to do at florida that you can't do at old miss like what is lane kiffin making like let's look at the

SEC coaches' salaries. Because SEC coaches' salaries. Let's see. Highest paid SEC coaches in buyouts. Here we go. This is from a couple of days ago. So Lane is making $9 million a year. Let's see.

And so what was Homeboy making at Florida? Let's see. Where the hell is he? So Lane's making $9 million a year. So Lane is only behind, let's see, Bill Belichick. Brian Kelly, Kaelin DeBore, Dan Lannin, Steve Sarkesian, Dabo Sweeney, Lincoln, Ryan Day, and Kirby Smart. And how many of those guys have national championships? A good number of them are very successful guys.

And that's it. Like, you're a top 10, 11 paid coach already. You know who wasn't on that list? The Florida coach. Not to say that they wouldn't pay you a shit ton of money. But like Billy Napier was making $7 million a year. Still a very good salary. You're making more than that at Ole Miss

By a million and a half bucks Now that's not to say that Florida after they fired Billy Napier Won't pick up the phone and call you and offer you 10 Offer you the money that like There's no reason why at this point That Lane shouldn't make the same money that Steve Sarkesian makes What does Steve Sarkesian one? Nothing at Texas

So I couldn't Lane make $11 million if you could So I wouldn't do it man I wouldn't go to Florida I don't know that there's any job I would leave that job for because it's your job. There's something to be said about knowing you can be somewhere almost as long as you'd want to be. Now again, that's unless they have a couple of bad years, then people are going to hate you. That's part of it. But this is your gig. You have a chance

to build a legacy there. This has to, this has a chance to be the place that you stay for 10, 12, 15 years. And you're the dude. When they think of, they think of Ole Miss football, they think of you. And the same way that at Alabama, they think of the bear and they think of Nick Saban. you have a chance to do that at Ole Miss and I would disagree like if it were something where I felt like you truly didn't have a chance to compete like I don't think South Carolina has a real chance to compete so if I'm Shane Beamer in South Carolina

like they can be fine but I do think South Carolina is South Carolina and South Carolina is never going to be something huge they could be something good but I don't think they can be huge I think Ole Miss can compete Lane's proven Ole Miss can compete Like, look, you lost a five-point game over the weekend of Georgia. Game could have gone either way. You played really well.

At the end of the game, they wore you down. That could also just be the way you play football. You know? Your quarterback, who's a freshman, wasn't good in the fourth quarter. That's not because you're not a good coach. Your freshman just wasn't good in the fourth quarter. Shit happens. Boy, I also love that the lowest paid coach in the SEC is Clark Lee,

who just worked Brian Kelly, who's the fourth highest paid coach in the league. Geez Anyway, more to come