LSU coach Les Miles looks to the scoreboard surrounded by players during his team’s 2016 game at Wisconsin at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
Former LSU football coach Les Miles reportedly filed a suit against the school Monday seeking to have 37 vacated wins with the Tigers reinstated with Miles arguing that the loss of those victories makes him ineligible for inclusion in the College Football Hall of Fame.
As originally reported by ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg, Miles claims in his suit that LSU “promised us its help in undoing this injustice” but “went back on its word, forcing us to take this unfortunate action of suing to regain Les’ rights.”
The lawsuit also named the NCAA and the National Football Foundation, the latter of which manages the College Football Hall of Fame, as defendants. According to the lawsuit, as reported by ESPN, Miles states that LSU’s “decision not to provide Miles with any form of due process was made in agreement with the NCAA, and in furtherance of the LSU defendants’ negotiations with the NCAA concerning additional and more-severe penalties that otherwise likely would have been imposed on LSU and its athletics program.”
Before the victories were vacated, Miles went 114-34 across 12 seasons at LSU between 2005-16, a run that included two SEC championships – in 2007 and 2011 – and a national championship, in 2007. Miles had previously served as the head coach at Oklahoma State and, after his firing at LSU in 2016 was the head coach at Kansas in 2019 and 2020. Miles and Kansas mutually agreed to part ways in March 2021 after sexual misconduct allegations against the coach from his time at LSU were revealed.
Detail of Les Miles lawsuit against LSU
Over his 18-year head-coaching career, Miles’ teams went 145-73, a record that drops to 108-73 when the 37 vacated wins aren’t included.
With his vacated wins…
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Publish date : 2024-06-17 19:16:00
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