Les Miles lawsuit vs. LSU, explained: Why former football coach is suing Tigers over vacated wins

Former LSU football coach Les Miles has reportedly filed a suit against the university on Monday over 37 wins it vacated from his tenure as the Tigers’ coach from 2005-16, 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.”

In addition to LSU, Miles’ lawsuit also named the NCAA and the National Football Foundation, the latter of which manages the College Football Hall of Fame, as defendants.

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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 his 12 seasons at LSU, 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 for dwindling on-field results, was the head coach at Kansas for two disastrous seasons. 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.

Here’s what you need to know about Miles’ lawsuit, his career, why he’s suing LSU and College Football Hall of Fame induction rules:

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Author : The Daily Advertiser

Publish date : 2024-06-17 18:12:43

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