Les Miles
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
November 10, 1953 Elyria, Ohio |
| Playing career | |
| 1974–1975 | Michigan |
| Position(s) | Offensive lineman |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1980–1981 | Michigan (GA) |
| 1982–1986 | Colorado (OL) |
| 1987–1994 | Michigan (OL) |
| 1995–1997 | Oklahoma State (OC) |
| 1998–2000 | Dallas Cowboys (TE) |
| 2001–2004 | Oklahoma State |
| 2005–2016 | LSU |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 141–55 |
| Bowls | 8–6 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 National (2007) 2 SEC (2007, 2011) 3 SEC Western Division (2005, 2007, 2011) |
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| Awards | |
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Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award (2011) Home Depot Coach of the Year Award (2011) Associated Press College Football Coach of the Year Award (2011) AFCA FBS Coach of the Year (2011) Walter Camp Coach of the Year (2011) |
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Leslie Edwin Miles (born November 10, 1953) is an American football coach and former player. He served as head coach at Louisiana State University from 2005 to 2016 and at Oklahoma State University from 2001 to 2004. Miles is nicknamed "The Hat" for his signature white cap, as well as "The Mad Hatter" for his eccentricities and play-calling habits. Prior to being a head coach, he was an assistant coach at Oklahoma State as well as at the University of Michigan, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). Miles led the 2007 LSU Tigers football team to a win in the BCS National Championship Game against Ohio State, 38–24.
Miles was born the son of Bubba, a long-haul trucking broker, and Martha Miles. He earned all-state honors as a lineman in football as well as letters in baseball and wrestling at Elyria High School in Ohio, graduating in 1972. He attended the University of Michigan where he was a two-year letterman under Coach Bo Schembechler from 1974 to 75. In 1980, Miles returned to Michigan as an assistant coach to Schembechler. He left Michigan in 1982 to coach at the University of Colorado where fellow Michigan assistant Bill McCartney had just been named head coach. Coincidentally, one of his fellow assistants on the Colorado staff was another future LSU head coach, Gerry DiNardo, who coached at LSU from 1995–99.
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