Les Miles and the burner phone

Hoo boy.

At the height of his fame as Louisiana State University’s head football coach, Les Miles was accused of texting female students, taking them to his condo alone, making them feel uncomfortable and, on at least one occasion, kissing a student and suggesting they go to a hotel after telling her he could help her career, according to an internal investigative report released by LSU on Thursday.

The investigation, done by an outside law firm on behalf of LSU in 2013, did not find that Miles had sexual relationships with any of the women. But it found his behavior inappropriate. Miles strongly denied kissing the girl, according to the report. He said that he did nothing wrong and was simply mentoring young women at the university.

Miles also was accused by athletic department staff of saying that the female student workers who helped the football team lure top recruits needed to be attractive, blonde and fit, according to the investigative report. Existing student employees who did not meet this criteria should be given fewer hours or terminated, the report details.

As a result of the investigation’s findings, LSU issued Miles a letter of reprimand and required him to sign forms stating that he had read and understood the school’s policies. The university also ordered him to stop hiring student employees to babysit, cease being alone with them, and attend eight, one-hour sessions with an attorney and pay for it out of his own pocket.

If Miles repeated his behavior, the school said in the letter, he would lose his job and violate his contract.

The allegations against Miles – now head coach at the University of Kansas – were first made public after USA TODAY sued for the records in January. LSU initially refused to release the records and Miles intervened in USA TODAY’s lawsuit, asserting his reputation would be ruined if the report was made public. Miles dropped his bid to keep the records sealed, with his lawyer saying its release was necessary to defend himself against negative media attention.

In 2013, Miles and LSU took steps to ensure the records remained secret, according to a letter released with the investigative report. In it, attorneys for LSU tell Miles that should anyone request it, LSU said, the school would fight the release in court.

The internal investigation into Miles is the latest discovery by USA TODAY, which has revealed widespread mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations by LSU’s athletic department and broader administration. USA TODAY’s reporting prompted LSU to hire outside law firm Husch Blackwell in November to audit its handling of dozens of sexual misconduct cases since 2016.​

It does get worse for him from there.

 

The jokes just about write themselves.

 

Dead girl? Nope

Live boy? Nope

He's good.

 

Truly A+ job of hiring by KU. Really knocked this out of the park.

 

They’ll use it as an excuse to fire with cause so they can get Hugh Freeze, who didn’t have the courtesy to use a burner.

 

Houston Nutt nods approvingly.

 

Sounds like he never scored, which seems to mirror his teams at LSU.

 

Right after this we'll be back with more football and Les Miles.

 

So KU is going to whack its second straight football coach for cause. While they didn't write the report, they won't object to its publication. This gives them time to plan the firing or the resulting settlement talks.

 

Lane Kiffin's loveshack off The Strip in K-ville is smirking.

 

You have to wonder if Michigan knew about this stuff when Les was doing everything but have Kirk Herbstreit carry a sandwich sign for him to campaign for the job