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Les Miles suing LSU over vacated wins during his tenure

Les Miles currently sits at a 59.7% career win percentage, just shy of the College Football Hall of Fame’s required 60% threshold.

Former LSU coach [autotag]Les Miles[/autotag] is back in the news as he has reportedly filed a lawsuit against the university over the 37 vacated wins from his time in Baton Rouge, according to ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg.

Miles, who was fired by the Tigers in 2016 and last coached at Kansas from 2019-20, now has an official career record of 108-73. That puts him at a career winning percentage of 59.7%, just 0.3% away from the required 60% threshold to be eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame.

The 37 wins come from the 2012-15 seasons when LSU was determined to have used an ineligible player in [autotag]Vadal Alexander[/autotag]. Those wins were vacated in 2023.

If Miles’ lawsuit is unsuccessful in getting the vacated wins restored to his coaching record, he would require a special exemption to be allowed in the College Football Hall of Fame.

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Paul Finebaum on LSU’s NCAA ruling: Schools should ‘cheat like crazy’

Paul Finebaum thinks the NCAA is sending a message that the rules don’t matter anymore.

Last week, the NCAA closed the book on a multi-year investigation into LSU athletics.

The results of the investigation were announced in the report from the NCAA’s Independent Accountability Resolution Process, and the Tigers ultimately received three years of probation for both the football and men’s basketball programs.

However, when it comes to penalties, the NCAA stuck with what the LSU athletics department ultimately self-imposed. Among the self-imposed penalties that hadn’t been previously disclosed, LSU football vacated all 37 wins from 2012-15 as offensive lineman [autotag]Vadal Alexander[/autotag] was deemed ineligible for that entire period.

Still, not everyone thought these penalties were sufficient. In an appearance on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning, Finebaum said the message the NCAA ruling sends is clear: Go ahead and cheat, because the consequences will be minimal.

“I don’t like saying this because I was one who always believed in the rules and who spent the early part of my career looking into transgressions and thinking those who did it should be kicked out of the industry. It just simply doesn’t matter anymore. …The message is clear. Cheat like crazy and don’t stop until you win. I never thought I would say that, but it’s the truth. It simply doesn’t matter anymore. …I am long past getting outraged and upset that someone like [autotag]Will Wade[/autotag] gets away with whatever he got away with, or someone else.

“Because if it doesn’t matter to the people who govern the sport, and by the way, that includes everyone who sits in on these meetings and on these management councils, then it’s certainly not going to bother me anymore.”

While it’s hard to argue too much with Finebaum’s point generally — the NCAA has always been fairly ill-equipped to punish wrongdoing, with the cloud of lengthy investigations over a program often being the biggest punishment — it’s worth pointing out that Wade did face harsher consequences than LSU at-large.

Now the head coach at McNeese, Wade will be suspended for the first 10 games of the 2023-24 season. He will also be saddled with recruiting limitations that will make life at a mid-major even tougher.

Still, after a long investigation yielded little in the way of actual punishment, it’s easy to see why the NCAA is viewed as so ineffectual in policing violations of its own rules.

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How LSU vacating 37 wins impacts Les Miles’ potential CFB Hall of Fame candidacy

Les Miles no longer meets the career .600 winning percentage required to be eligible for the Hall of Fame.

After multiple years of waiting, a decision from the NCAA regarding LSU’s infractions case finally came down on Thursday.

Both LSU’s football and basketball programs received three years probation, and the school’s self-imposed penalties, most of which were already public knowledge, proved to be heavily mitigating factors.

However, there was one interesting revelation from the Independent Accountability Resolution Process report. Among the self-imposed penalties that remained confidential was the vacating of all 37 wins between 2012-15.

This has to do with former offensive lineman [autotag]Vadal Alexander[/autotag], who was deemed ineligible during his entire time at LSU. However, it could ultimately have a major impact on former coach [autotag]Les Miles[/autotag].

Miles was previously 145-73 (.665). To be eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame, coaches must have a winning percentage of at least .600.

However, with the vacated wins, his record now sits at 108-73, below that threshold.

Miles, who last coached in 2020, will soon become eligible for the Hall of Fame. The Hall would have to assess and approve his nomination, given the fact that he doesn’t meet the .600 criteria.

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BREAKING: LSU football, basketball programs receive 3 years probation from NCAA’s IARP

The Tigers will face only minor penalties after self-imposing several during the investigative process.

The LSU football and basketball programs will receive three years of probation each, the NCAA’s Independent Accountability Resolution Process announced in its report on Thursday.

The probation period will include only minor penalties for the two programs. Both the football and basketball teams self-imposed penalties earlier in the investigative process, which included temporary unofficial visit bans, scholarship reductions and football postseason ineligibility during the 2020 season.

Among the self-imposed penalties was the vacating of all 37 wins from 2012-15 after it was ruled that former offensive lineman [autotag]Vadal Alexander[/autotag] competed while ineligible during his entire LSU career. Though this was previously self-imposed, it remained confidential prior to the release of the report.

The penalties were harsher for former men’s basketball coach [autotag]Will Wade[/autotag], who was fired in March 2022 for his role in the college basketball corruption scandal after he was caught in the middle of a probe from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Wade, who was hired this offseason by McNeese State, will face a two-year show-cause penalty. The show cause will impose fairly steep recruiting penalties, and Wade will be suspended for the first 10 games of the 2023-24 season.

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Giants host Vadal Alexander, Brayden Patton for tryouts

The New York Giants hosted offensive linemen Vadal Alexander and Brayden Patton for tryouts on Monday.

On Monday, the New York Giants officially signed veteran offensive lineman Eric Smith and terminated the contract of offensive lineman Matt Gono.

Gono had missed time recently due to a neck injury that some believe may be career-threatening. He had been on a roster exemption but that expired, leaving the Giants in a precarious position.

Despite the signing of Smith, the Giants continue to focus heavily on their lacking O-Line depth.

“I think Joe (Schoen) and his staff — the scouting department — are going to look at every avenue to try to improve that situation. You obviously can’t, you don’t have a crystal ball when that stuff happens,” head coach Brian Daboll told reporters on Sunday.

Following Monday’s practice, the Giants once again held tryouts for a pair of offensive linemen. This time, they were tackle Vadal Alexander and center Brayden Patton.

The 28-year-old Alexander was a seventh-round pick of the Oakland Raiders in the 2016 NFL draft. After his first two seasons, Alexander was suspended for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances and later waived for failing to report to training camp.

Alexander was out of football for nearly five years before joining the USFL’s Pittsburgh Maulers earlier this year. However, he missed some time throughout the season due to an arthritis flare-up.

The 24-year-old Patton went undrafted out of NIU in April and like Alexander, later joined the Maulers and spent a season in the USFL. He was named Second-Team All-MAC by the coaches in 2021.

Neither were immediately signed to a contract.

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Seahawks tryout 3 free agent linemen, cut 1 DB from practice squad

Yesterday, the team brought in three free agent linemen for tryouts and also cut one player from the practice squad

The Seahawks have several holes to fill on their roster – and that was before the news that Jamal Adams would miss the rest of the season due to a shoulder injury that will require surgery.

Yesterday, the team brought in three free agent linemen for tryouts and also waived one player from the practice squad. Here’s a review.