On a chaotic Sunday evening in late November 2025, Mississippi radio and internet personality Clay Edwards went live for an impromptu “special edition” of The Clay Edwards Show to react to the bombshell news that had just broken across college football: Lane Kiffin was leaving Ole Miss to become the next head coach at LSU.
What followed was a two-and-a-half-hour, high-energy, profanity-laced, drink-spilling, keyboard-soaking monologue that perfectly captured the raw emotion sweeping through the state of Mississippi — especially among Ole Miss fans who felt betrayed and Mississippi State fans (like Clay) who couldn’t decide whether to feel sorry for their rivals or simply enjoy the circus.
The Scene
Clay opened the stream already in mid-chaos: he’d just knocked over an energy drink and a cup of greens all over his desk and shorts while frantically tweaking audio settings. Undeterred, he powered through, declaring, “Metallica can play in thunder and lightning and rainstorms; Clay Edwards can keep streaming with greens and Red Bull all over his shorts.”
Personal Context
Clay, a lifelong Mississippi State fan, had attended his very first Egg Bowl just two days earlier on Black Friday. He’d gone primarily because he had a gut feeling it might be Lane Kiffin’s final game in Oxford. Sitting in a cushy end-zone suite with his two Ole Miss-fan daughters (cheering in blue pom-poms while surrounded by mostly State fans), Clay snapped several now-viral photos of Kiffin on the sideline and doing his halftime interview. He jokingly captioned them at the time, “Could this be Lane Kiffin’s last walk off the field as Ole Miss head coach?” Turns out his instinct was dead-on.
The Departure:
“He Dipped Out Like a Hoe”Clay didn’t mince words: “Lane Kiffin has dipped out on Ole Miss.” He compared the spectacle of LSU sending not one but two private jets to Oxford to pick up Kiffin and his family to “a dude rolling up to your house in a Lamborghini, walking up to your front porch, and taking your woman while you just stand there and watch.”
He then played video of angry Ole Miss fans gathering at the Oxford airport to scream profanities and flip the bird as Kiffin boarded the jet. Clay, a State fan with no dog in the fight, openly admitted, “I love this energy. This is big ‘f*** around and find out’ energy. I’m kinda proud of y’all right now.”
Ole Miss’s Swift Counterpunch
Within hours of Kiffin’s departure becoming official, Ole Miss promoted defensive coordinator Pete Golding to full-time head coach (not interim) and, in a move Clay called “absolute big-dick energy,” offered to double the salary of every assistant coach who chose to stay in Oxford instead of following Kiffin to Baton Rouge. Clay repeatedly praised the move: “Two can play that game, Hoss. Screw you, Lane. Screw you, LSU. We’re keeping our staff.”
He acknowledged the hire gives “Zach Arnett vibes” (the Mississippi State DC who was promoted after Mike Leach’s death, flopped spectacularly, then ended up… at Ole Miss), but said given the timing and the coaching carousel chaos, Ole Miss’s hands were tied and the move made sense.
Lane’s Farewell Letter:
“His Agent Wrote That Bullsh*t”Clay tore into Kiffin’s official goodbye statement, especially the line about “prayer and family time” leading him to LSU and his claim that Ole Miss denied his request to coach the Rebels through the playoffs.
“Really, Lane? You prayed about it? So if you go 8–4 next year and don’t win a natty, was God wrong?”
He scoffed at the idea that the players begged Kiffin to stay through the postseason: “Ain’t no way in hell the team wanted you to dump them for the prettier girl and then still get a one-night stand through the playoffs. That letter was 100% written by his agent.”
The Bigger Picture
Despite being a State fan, Clay repeatedly said he was rooting for Ole Miss to make a Cinderella run in the 12-team playoff: “Y’all have a real shot to be America’s Team now. Coach just told the world ‘you ain’t good enough to win the big one with.’ Go win the damn thing and shove it down his throat.” He argued a deep Ole Miss playoff run would light a fire under Mississippi State’s own boosters: “A high tide lifts all ships. When your rival is rolling, it makes you sick of hearing about them and spend whatever it takes to beat them.”
Final Verdict from Clay
-Lane Kiffin is exactly who we thought he was: a brilliant football mind but a serial disloyal “hoe” who will leave anyone for a perceived bigger job (and Clay believes Alabama is still the one he really wants).
-Ole Miss got done dirty in the optics, but responded like gangsters with the Golding hire and the “double your salary if you stay” offer.
-The entire saga is the perfect illustration of everything wrong with the current coaching carousel and transfer-portal timing.
-As a Mississippi State fan, he hates both Ole Miss and LSU… but he’s pulling for the Rebels to win a couple playoff games “because it’ll be the ultimate middle finger to Lane Train and it’ll make our boosters open their wallets.”
In classic Clay Edwards fashion, he closed the marathon stream covered in spilled drinks, laughing, and promising, “Man, what a day to be alive and love college football in the state of Mississippi.”
