NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Former head football coach Les Miles filed a lawsuit against LSU alleging the school’s decision to vacate wins cost him the chance for College Football Hall of Fame qualification.
ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg first reported the lawsuit.
LSU vacated 37 wins while Miles was the head coach. That reduced Miles’ official career record from 145-73 (.665) to 108-73 (.597). Miles no longer meets the .600 career win percentage needed to qualify for the College Football Hall of Fame.
The wins were from 2012-2015. It stemmed from an NCAA ruling on improper benefits payments to former player Vadal Alexander.
Miles was the head coach at LSU from 2005-2016. He won a national title with the Tigers in 2007.
A news release sent to Rittenberg, he called it “an irrational and unfair self-inflicted punishment.”
Miles also included the NCAA and the National Football Foundation as defendants.
Miles has been out of coaching since 2021. His last job was at Kansas. The school parted ways with Miles following allegations of sexual misconduct while at LSU.
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