USA Today and The Advocate uncovered allegations that former LSU Football head coach Les Miles sexually harassed student workers during his time running the program.
The allegations were detailed in a 2013 investigation ordered by LSU and conducted by an outside law firm. USA Today sports writer Glenn Guilbeau said his employer is suing to get access to the full report, but so far they can conclude that LSU deemed Miles’ behavior at the time as inappropriate.
“It sounds like it would be really embarrassing but at the same time USA Today says investigators determined that Miles’ conduct did not rise to the level of breaking the law,” said Guilbeau.
Miles’ attorneys said the report should remain confidential because disclosure would cause Miles to suffer “serious injury to his reputation and personal life” and “irreparable loss.”
The allegations have until now been kept from the public. Guilbeau said that is par for the course at LSU.
“I mean they have a history of just kind of automatically covering things up,” said Guilbeau who added that policy reached its zenith until former Athletic Director Joe Alleva who was used to working at Duke, a private institution that did not fall under public information laws.
The Advocate reported Miles offered a secret settlement to an LSU student who accused him of “hitting on her”, but Miles’ attorneys disputed the characterization of it being a settlement.
LSU has hired a private firm to investigate about 60 different sexual misconduct cases involving the school from 2016 to 2018 and the US Department of Education is also investigating the school.
“This is not going away any time soon,” said Guilbeau. “There’s probably a lot more to come.”
Miles coached at LSU from 2005 until 2016 when he was fired for football-related reasons and now coaches at Kansas.
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