Report: LSU senior offensive analyst Trent Miles rejoins Notre Dame staff
After two decades away, a former Notre Dame wide receivers is reportedly coming back to South Bend. FootballScoop’s John Brice reported that Trent Miles, most recently an LSU senior offensive analyst, will leave Baton Rouge, La. for a similar position with the Irish.
Miles coached wide receivers at Notre Dame from 2002-04 under head coach Tyrone Willingham. He’ll rejoin former LSU offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock, who left for the same role with the Irish on Dec. 27.
Before LSU, Miles was an offensive quality control coach and assistant running backs coach with the Philadelphia Eagles, with whom he won Super Bowl LII, from 2017-21. He spent the vast majority of his coaching career in the college ranks, though.
Miles was the head coach at FCS Indiana State, his alma mater in his hometown of Terre Haute, from 2008-12. He won one game in his first two seasons combined with the Sycamores of the Missouri Valley Conference, but he turned their program around after that. Miles went 6-5, 6-5 and 7-4 in his final three seasons with Indiana State. He was named a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award in 2010, which went to Oregon’s Chip Kelly.
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Miles left the Sycamores to take the head coaching job at Georgia State, an FBS school in the Sun Belt Conference. That four-year tenure, from 2013-16, went significantly less well. The Panthers went 9-38 under Miles, firing him 10 games in to the 2016 season.
Miles’ coaching career spans 37 seasons and includes stops at 11 schools, as well as two NFL teams. Miles has mostly been a wide receivers coach throughout his time in the college ranks, although he did dabble on the defensive side of the ball as a defensive backs coach in 1994 (Northern Illinois) and 1996 (Hawaii).
Here’s Miles’ full coaching resume, from a graduate assistant job at Indiana State to a senior offensive analyst job at LSU.
Trent Miles coaching resume
- 1987: Indiana State (Graduate assistant)
- 1988-89: New Mexico (Graduate assistant)
- 1990: Oklahoma (Graduate assistant)
- 1991-93: Northern Illinois (Wide receivers coach)
- 1994: Northern Illinois (Defensive backs coach)
- 1995: Hawaii (Wide receivers coach)
- 1996: Hawaii (Defensive backs coach)
- 1997-99: Fresno State (Wide receivers coach)
- 2000: Green Bay Packers (Wide receivers/quality control coach)
- 2001: Stanford (Wide receivers coach)
- 2002-04: Notre Dame (Wide receivers coach)
- 2005-07: Washington (Running backs coach)
- 2008-12: Indiana State (Head coach)
- 2013-16: Georgia State (Head coach)
- 2017-21: Philadelphia Eagles: (Offensive quality control/assistant running backs coach)
- 2022-23: LSU (Senior offensive analyst)
