More on the Les Miles situation per Husch Blackwell report

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Lewis’ report speaks for itself, but among the allegations levelled is that, after losing the 2012
National Championship game, Miles attempted to sexualize the staff of student workers in the
football program by, for instance, allegedly demanding that he wanted “blondes with the big
boobs” and “pretty girls.” According to Lewis, he also allegedly took a more direct role in the
hiring of those student workers.

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Following this encounter, Lewis immediately reported the incident to Segar. According to two
Athletics employees interviewed as part of our review, Student 1 met with Segar, but “the
University never did anything about it.” There is no record of this student’s concern being
investigated in a manner consistent with then-University policy. There are also no records or other
evidence of Student 1 being provided with notice of her rights and options in response to the
complaint, or perhaps more importantly, any supportive resources other than the support of Sharon
Lewis and Coordinator of Football Operations and assistant to Head Coach Ya’el Lofton. Lofton
and Lewis stated that after this incident, Student 1 “fell off the face of the Earth” and did not “know
what happened to her after that.”

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Despite these measures, in February 2013, a second student worker (identified as “Student 2”)
“[r]eported inappropriate contact and text messages with Miles” to Lewis, which were documented
in her communications to Human Resources. In turn, Lewis immediately reported the incident and
provided the text messages to Senior Associate Athletics Director Segar.

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During the course of their investigation, Taylor Porter learned that numerous Athletic Department
employees indicated that Miles became more hands on about many things in the Athletic
Department, including the selection of student employees, following his team’s loss in the 2012
National Championship game. In particular, according to witnesses interviewed by Husch
Blackwell, Miles allegedly participated in recruiting and interviewing female student employees
and “wanted them to have a certain look.” At least three witnesses recalled Miles labelling the
student workers as “a.m. and p.m. girls”—a designation which Miles also openly gave to female
full-time Football Operations staff. Several other employees recalled Miles referring to the student workers as looking like a “bad bowling team.” Employees interviewed as part of Husch Blackwell’s review stated that “only certain ones were allowed to be in the head coach’s office,
not everyone. And most of them were either blonde, they were all attractive, but most of them that
came through here were blonde.” Another individual recalled Miles saying “many times,” “I want
the blondes not the brunettes working in this office.” As one witness explained, “It makes me want
to vomit, because it was kind of that every year it got a little worse and a little worse and for a
while, after a while it almost became normal that we can’t hire anybody that’s fat and ugly.”
Notably, there is no record of these reports of sex discrimination in the University’s files and there
is no record of these reports ever being investigated.

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