Les Miles hails from Elyria, Ohio where he attended Elyria High School which, according to NOLA.com, produced a handful of notable sports stars including 1950 Heisman trophy-winner Vic Janowicz, NFL player Walt Rock, and 2005 long jump champion Tianna Madison. While Les Miles was a good enough football player in high school to go on to be an offensive lineman at the University of Michigan in the early 1970s, he wasn't quite at the level to make the jump to the NFL (via The Detroit News).
Miles instead turned to coaching, first becoming a graduate assistant with the Wolverines in 1980, and was on the coaching staff from 1987 to 1994. He spent a few years as the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State, and by 2001 the Cowboys head coaching gig was his. According to Sports Reference, Miles spent four seasons at OSU before taking the head coaching job at LSU, the school with which he became synonymous for the next decade. Miles spent 12 seasons leading the LSU Tigers and managed to win two BCS Championships before the school let him go part of the way through the 2016 season. He then spent the 2019 and 2020 seasons as the head coach at the University of Kansas.
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