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The University of Kansas football team put coach Les Miles on administrative leave after a USA Today’s Kenny Jacoby, Nancy Armor and Jessica Luther, who revealed a 2013 LSU investigation, concluded that Miles had conducted inappropriate behavior with female students while coaching Tigers.
Miles is accused of texting women who worked as student employees in LSU’s athletic department, taking them alone to their condo and – in an alleged incident – kissing a student in her car after offering to help her move forward. career.
THE USA TODAY The report noted that the investigation did not find Miles having sex with any of the women, but LSU issued a letter of reprimand, as well as banning him from being alone with student officials. The investigation was not released until USA TODAY sued for his release amid a broader look at the treatment of LSU in numerous cases of sexual misconduct.
LSU’s then athletic director, Joe Alleva, recommended firing Miles with just cause in 2013, after the head coach allegedly defied the rules set to keep him away from meeting alone with student workers.
Miles, who was hired by KU in 2019, denied the charges through his lawyer, Peter Ginsberg.
“As the report concludes, the claim that Coach Miles tried to kiss the woman was not supported by any evidence and did not justify any discipline: ‘We do not believe that under existing law and the terms of the contract there is reason to discipline and / or terminate ‘Coach Miles, ” Ginsberg wrote in a statement, citing the findings of the investigation.
The Jayhawks did not announce an interim coach. In two years in Kansas, Miles is 3-18 (1-16 Big 12), including a season without a win in 2020. He is the fourth coach hired by KU in a decade after Turner Gill, Charlie Weis and David Beaty.