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Why did LSU allow Les Miles to carry on? 'We're protecting our brand'

Fifty-two pages into a school-commissioned, outside law firm report about the pathetic antics of Les Miles, and how exactly LSU kept him as its head football coach in spite of them, comes a quote that should send chills through college athletics everywhere.

It’s from an unnamed “long-time football staff member” discussing how Miles was allowed to sexually harass female student workers, ignore the commands of his bosses, abuse his power as a prominent and winning coach and sexualize the office by making sure that the coeds who work there “have a certain look” … i.e. blonde and attractive.