Miles sues LSU, says abandoned wins kill HOF shot

• Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterJun 17, 2024, 12:22 PM ET Close College football reporter.
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• Graduate of Northwestern University.Former LSU coach Les

Miles is taking legal action against the school for vacating wins in reaction to an NCAA offenses case, a move that dropped Miles below the limit for College Football Hall of Popularity qualification.Miles, who coached LSU from 2005 to 2016, also named the NCAA and the National Football Foundation, which manages the College Football Hall of Popularity, as defendants. The lawsuit states he was deprived of property rights to the abandoned wins and his nomination for the Hall of Popularity, which should be done by those associated with an NCAA member school. Previous LSU coach Les Miles is suing the school, saying that the vacated wins from his period dropped him from qualifying for the College Football Hall of Fame. Stacy Revere/Getty Images In 2023, LSU left 37 wins since of recruiting offenses originating from impermissible benefits paid to the father of former player Vadal Alexander by a previous booster. The wins coincided with Alexander’s playing career from 2012 to 2015 under Miles, who went 37-12 during the stretch. The left football wins were announced together with other charges for LSU’s football and guys’s basketball programs by the NCAA’s Independent Accountability Resolution Process.The 37 abandoned wins dropped Miles’total record from 145-73, a winning portion of.665, to 108-73, a winning portion of.597. Coaches need to have a career winning portion of

.600 in a minimum of 100 games to qualify for selection to the College Football Hall of Fame. Miles, 70, helped LSU to a national championship in 2007 and won 2 SEC titles at the school. He also led programs at Oklahoma State and Kansas.Editor’s Picks 2 Related According to the lawsuit, LSU’s “choice not to offer Miles with any form of due process was made in agreement with the NCAA, and in furtherance of the LSU Accuseds’negotiations with the NCAA worrying additional and more-severe penalties that otherwise likely would have been imposed on LSU and its athletics program.”The IARP put LSU on three years’ probation. LSU had actually previously imposed a postseason restriction in football for the 2020-21 season.Other than the adjusted win portion, Miles is qualified for Hall of Fame choice, as he acted as a head coach for more than 10 wins, coached more than 100 games and has actually not coached for more than three years. Miles and Kansas parted ways in March 2021, in the middle of claims that Miles had actually acted wrongly towards female trainees during his period at LSU.George Bass, Miles’longtime agent, stated in a news release announcing the claim that LSU” guaranteed us its assistance in undoing this injustice “but “went back on its word, requiring us to take this regrettable action of taking legal action against to gain back Les’rights.”Miles ‘claim states that”the bulk” of LSU’s violations, including the most severe offenses

, took place in basketball, which the group’s coaches, consisting of previous coach Will Wade, were”straight linked “in infractions. The basketball penalties did not include vacated wins or adjusted coaching records. Wade, now at McNeese State, received a two-year show-cause order and a 10-game suspension for 3 Level I violations.The suit likewise keeps in mind that 2 of the three offenses the NCAA found with LSU football took place after Miles’tenure as the team’s coach. The Level II offense including Alexander was found two years after Miles’LSU tenure ended.