Les Miles offered a secret settlement to an LSU student.
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That would destroy that powerhouse.
Les Miles' LSU bosses ordered him to stop texting, being alone with female student workers
Several high-profile LSU board members and officials agreed in 2013 that LSU football coach Les Miles had a problem with sexually harassing young women, a newly released investigative report long
I’m starting to think maybe there was more to his whole contract fracas in 2015 than we all knew at the time. Maybe - just maybe - his 2016 firing while clearly looking like in the heat of emotion may have been thought of earlier.
The one thing that makes me think that is NOT the case is the notion LSU would ever in any way be transparent about these things in the first place, including when it came out. Part of me suspects part of this is a distraction from the current inept regime.
I guess we can cue up the jokes about Les having bad timing and not being able to finish.
The one thing that makes me think that is NOT the case is the notion LSU would ever in any way be transparent about these things in the first place, including when it came out. Part of me suspects part of this is a distraction from the current inept regime.
I guess we can cue up the jokes about Les having bad timing and not being able to finish.
The way things have trickled out over the last few years down there paints a pretty dark picture of an old school, 'keep it down home' athletic department in a world that's moved well past that...
Folks - if you ever thought we mishandled the Mike Price situation, all of what has gone on since then in CFB suggests we handled it perfectly (yes....we botched both integration AND the DuBose zipper affair, but we did learn I guess).
I contact Stewart Mandel every so often when one of these scandals pops up. He absolutely WILL NOT answer my query given that in 2003 he blasted us as being stuck in the past and blamed our old school morality and the old guard for insisting on ties to Bryant when dismissing Price. But I thought then - and still think even more so today - that Price gave us his own ultimatum by his behavior, and we handled it correctly.
Mandel wants no part of "you know, if Penn State or FSU or (name almost any school) would have done what Alabama did, it would have ended problems right then and there." After all....you then have to admit two things:
1) you were wrong
2) Alabama - a place most folks automatically reflexively react negatively against - was actually right
And it's easier to pretend you weren't a clueless ass than admit doing right does come with its own reward.
I contact Stewart Mandel every so often when one of these scandals pops up. He absolutely WILL NOT answer my query given that in 2003 he blasted us as being stuck in the past and blamed our old school morality and the old guard for insisting on ties to Bryant when dismissing Price. But I thought then - and still think even more so today - that Price gave us his own ultimatum by his behavior, and we handled it correctly.
Mandel wants no part of "you know, if Penn State or FSU or (name almost any school) would have done what Alabama did, it would have ended problems right then and there." After all....you then have to admit two things:
1) you were wrong
2) Alabama - a place most folks automatically reflexively react negatively against - was actually right
And it's easier to pretend you weren't a clueless ass than admit doing right does come with its own reward.
I am guessing the settlement isn't the only "secret" he offered. What a slime ball.
That's probably how this is going to play out. He's not going to survive this.
I agree with what @crimsonaudio alluded to a few pages back in that things like this are probably more common among HC's than we may want to believe. It is sad, but when things come to light such as the Hugh Freeze situation, Bobby Petrino situation and others (the Miss St baseball coach a few years back) that we've learned about over the years. Looking at the dynamics and environment of college campuses, I'm not sure why we don't believe it goes on a lot.
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I really always thought well of Miles. This is sorely disappointing.
Selma is right. We absolutely did handle the Price fiasco properly. At the time I thought we did and still do today. That's rare for me. I was sure DuBose and Shula were going to do great things.
Selma is right. We absolutely did handle the Price fiasco properly. At the time I thought we did and still do today. That's rare for me. I was sure DuBose and Shula were going to do great things.
SIAP- listening this morning and they said he was banned from texting all female college-age staff from 2013 onward. What a dirty, creepy man.
Sad for his wife and young adult kids. Didn’t t ESPN give him a shout out for his strong character and family values
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak...
I am going to share a real life personal story with ya'll, because I trust ya'll and we mostly see eye to eye.
This disgusts me. As a dad to a 13 year old girl, I am glad when these women are brave enough to speak out. My daughter came to us last week to show us a 9th grade boy was harassing her through text and asking her for nudes. The little punk got her number from his sisters phone because they cheer together.
I contacted the boys parents and the school and showed them the texts he sent. I wanted to beat hos behind myself, but it got handled.
Now, I said all that to say this, sleazy scumbags exist and I used to like Les because he was like a funny cartoon. If these allegations are true, I hope he never coaches again and justice is served.
This disgusts me. As a dad to a 13 year old girl, I am glad when these women are brave enough to speak out. My daughter came to us last week to show us a 9th grade boy was harassing her through text and asking her for nudes. The little punk got her number from his sisters phone because they cheer together.
I contacted the boys parents and the school and showed them the texts he sent. I wanted to beat hos behind myself, but it got handled.
Now, I said all that to say this, sleazy scumbags exist and I used to like Les because he was like a funny cartoon. If these allegations are true, I hope he never coaches again and justice is served.
Not being political, but is this a Bill Clinton (or an inordinate number of high profile people) type mentality or defense?
”I didn’t inhale” or “I didn’t have sex with that woman?”
For some us, right is right, wrong is wrong.
Just venting
”I didn’t inhale” or “I didn’t have sex with that woman?”
For some us, right is right, wrong is wrong.
Just venting
I hate smart phones. For all the good they do, they open the door to so much more evil.
Do not misunderstand me. That boy made the decision he made, and it is his alone to own and suffer the consequences of. But the phone made it far easier to do than it would have been 25 years ago.
I'm sorry your daughter was harassed like that, but glad she was able to bring attention to it and get something done about it.
No one sold a single text book so I doubt anyone at LSU gets in much trouble.
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