What are people's thoughts on how KU should handle Miles, and in a broader sense how schools, businesses, etc. should handle these types of situations?
To me, LSU is clearly in the wrong. They deserve all the negativity they are getting and will receive.
For KU, it's obviously more complicated. On the one hand, by all indications Miles has been an upstanding - if losing - football coach. The predatory stuff doesn't seem to have followed him. That said, does the University want to have as the head of its football program, and a major face of the University, a person who has a past like Miles, and who hasn't had to atone for it? It's not like he was caught, issued a mea culpa, paid his dues, and is trying to come back. It seems he was gross, predatory, misogynistic, and was able to completely skirt any repercussions because A) it's LSU, and B) he was winning.
Yes, it is true he's been convicted of nothing, and it's a he-said-she-said. But, the accusations are more than one or two 'misunderstandings' and because this isn't a courtroom, innocent until proven guilty doesn't factor - it's about the stain and weight of the accusation and its reflection on the employer.
If KU decides to release Miles, I'm not going to argue they aren't justified. Miles comes off horribly in the report and KU shouldn't want to be associated with someone like that who was able to dance away from the accusations. If they do keep him, I hope it is with a requirement that he issue a statement, serve a suspension, and/or do something to indicate that both Miles and KU take the situation seriously and aren't simply turning the page. They can legitimately argue he's done nothing wrong at KU and it was an issue for LSU.
To me, LSU is clearly in the wrong. They deserve all the negativity they are getting and will receive.
For KU, it's obviously more complicated. On the one hand, by all indications Miles has been an upstanding - if losing - football coach. The predatory stuff doesn't seem to have followed him. That said, does the University want to have as the head of its football program, and a major face of the University, a person who has a past like Miles, and who hasn't had to atone for it? It's not like he was caught, issued a mea culpa, paid his dues, and is trying to come back. It seems he was gross, predatory, misogynistic, and was able to completely skirt any repercussions because A) it's LSU, and B) he was winning.
Yes, it is true he's been convicted of nothing, and it's a he-said-she-said. But, the accusations are more than one or two 'misunderstandings' and because this isn't a courtroom, innocent until proven guilty doesn't factor - it's about the stain and weight of the accusation and its reflection on the employer.
If KU decides to release Miles, I'm not going to argue they aren't justified. Miles comes off horribly in the report and KU shouldn't want to be associated with someone like that who was able to dance away from the accusations. If they do keep him, I hope it is with a requirement that he issue a statement, serve a suspension, and/or do something to indicate that both Miles and KU take the situation seriously and aren't simply turning the page. They can legitimately argue he's done nothing wrong at KU and it was an issue for LSU.
