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Les Miles is reportedly seeking legal action against his former school for vacating wins that have impacted his chances of making the College Football Hall of Fame.
Per ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg: “Former LSU coach Les Miles today filed a lawsuit against LSU, alleging the school’s decision to vacate the wins his teams attained cost him the chance for College Football Hall of Fame qualification. News release called it ‘an irrational and unfair self-inflicted punishment.'”
“Miles’ lawsuit also lists the NCAA and the National Football Foundation, which manages the Hall of Fame, as defendants,” Rittenberg added. “His longtime agent George Bass said LSU ‘promised us help in undoing this injustice’ and then ‘went back on its word.'”
The CFB Hall requires its coaches to have a winning percentage of at least .600 and LSU’s decision to vacate 37 of Miles’ wins from 2012-2015 puts him just under the cutoff at .597.
“Defendants stripped Les Miles — indisputably one of the most esteemed college football coaches in the history of the State of Louisiana — of his established eligibility for the College Football Hall of Fame without an opportunity to be heard,” the lawsuit reads.
“Les Miles now seeks appropriate remedy for the blot placed on his good name and reputation when Defendants deprived him of his Hall of Fame eligibility without due process.”
The wins were vacated when the NCAA uncovered a Level 1 recruiting violation that involved a representative of LSU’s athletic department paying the father of an athlete $180,150 over a five-year span as part of an embezzlement scheme.