After Les Miles placed on administrative leave, his attorney blasts LSU probe and Kansas’ reaction

The attorney for Kansas coach Les Miles signaled Saturday they are prepared to fight Kansas placing him on administrative leave after a pair of reports were released publicly detailing allegations of inappropriate behavior with female students and football staffers while he was the coach at LSU.  

Peter Ginsberg, Miles’ New York-based attorney, blasted Kansas’ decision as “bending to the winds of media blowback” and maintained that the allegations against Miles are untrue. The report by Husch Blackwell, an outside law firm that reviewed LSU’s handling of sexual misconduct cases, found “significant alleged misconduct" by Miles to the point that former athletics director Joe Alleva recommended firing Miles in 2013. 

That followed the public release Thursday of a 2013 investigation from the Taylor Porter law firm, which found several allegations of misconduct including texting female students from a secret phone, attempting to kiss one and allegedly suggesting to one that they go to a hotel together after saying he could help her career.

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Miles, according to the report, made it clear he wanted student workers in the football office "to have a certain ‘look' (attractive, blond, fit).” The report also alleged that Miles wanted student employees who did not meet this criteria to be given fewer hours or terminated. 

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