Former LSU coach Les Miles sues school, claims vacated wins keeping him out of College Football Hall of Fame

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Former LSU head football coach Les Miles filed a lawsuit against the university, claiming that vacated wins from 2012-15 are keeping him out of consideration for the College Football Hall of Fame. 

Miles is looking for an "appropriate remedy for the blot placed on his good name and reputation," as 37 of his wins were vacated by the school during that timeframe, per the lawsuit.

Taking those wins out of his overall record drops it below .600 (108-73), which is a cutoff for a coach to be considered for the Hall of Fame, which the NCAA and National Football Foundation oversees. Both organizations are also listed as defendants in the suit. 

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Former LSU head football coach Les Miles filed a lawsuit against the university. (Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images)

The reason the Tigers self-imposed the vacancy of those 37 wins was due to an NCAA investigation, which uncovered a Level I recruiting violation while Miles was in place as head coach.

The violation, which came in 2012, was placed on LSU’s program after a rep for Tigers athletics paid the father of a prospective athlete a total of $180,150 over a five-year span in an embezzlement scheme. The athlete was enrolled at LSU from 2012-16. 

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Miles was never able to make a case for himself, and the lawsuit accuses the university of making the self-imposed punishment prematurely.

"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