Les Miles

Sport: CoachFootball

Induction Year: 2019

University: LSUMichigan

As LSU’s football coach following Nick Saban in 2005, the affable Miles strengthened a pattern of sustained success for the program for the next 11-plus seasons in compiling a record of 114-34 (77 percent) before his tenure ended after four games into the 2016 season.

With his 114 victories at LSU, Miles, who has an overall career record of 142-55 as a college head coach, is the second-winningest coach in LSU history behind only Charlie McClendon’s 137 wins in 18 seasons. Miles is the only coach in LSU history to beat Auburn, Florida and Alabama in same season — which he did three times — and in 2005, he became the first first-year coach in Southeastern Conference history to lead a team to the league’s title game.

The consensus national coach of the year in 2011 when he guided his team to a 13-0 mark and a berth in the BCS title game before losing to Alabama, Miles led the Tigers to the BCS title in 2007 and also won two SEC titles (2007, 2011). From 2005-15, LSU averaged 10 victories a year with seven double-digit win seasons and won more games than any other SEC school. Miles, whose team was ranked No. 1 in the AP poll for 11 consecutive weeks in 2011, had a 62-28 SEC regular-season record with nine winning seasons of five victories or more and had only one losing season in league play (3-5 in 2008). He won 16 times against coaches who had won a national championship.

Under his direction, LSU was 7-4 in bowl games and overall won 10 or more games a school-record seven times. Miles led LSU to five top-10 finishes (three in the top five) and during that time produced 22 first team All-Americans and had players claim 11 national awards. LSU also led the SEC with 69 NFL Draft picks in that span — which included 13 first-round selections. LSU led the nation with nine draft picks in 2014, a year after setting the school record with nine in 2013. In 2015, LSU topped the NFL with 40 players on opening day rosters.

Notably, Miles helped LSU rank second in the SEC in graduation rates in two of his final four seasons. … Born 11-10-1953 in Elyria, Ohio.