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2013 Georgia State Football
FOOTBALL STAFF
MILES
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rent Miles, who engineered a
dramatic turnaround in five
seasons at Indiana State, is the
new head football coach at
Georgia State.
Miles, the 2012 Region Four Coach
of the Year by the American Football
Coaches Association, was officially
introduced by GSU President Mark
Becker and Director of Athletics Cheryl L.
Levick on Dec. 3, 2012.
A former assistant coach at Stanford,
Notre Dame and Washington, Miles takes
the helm of the GSU program following
the retirement of Bill Curry, the program’s
head coach since its inception in 2008.
After completing its third season of play
in 2012, Georgia State moves to the Sun
Belt Conference in 2013, which will
mark the second and final year of the
program’s transition to the Football Bowl
Subdivision (FBS).
Despite taking over a struggling
Indiana State program that had won just
one game in the three seasons before his
arrival in 2008, Miles led the Sycamores to
winning records the last three years.
In 2010, he was honored as Missouri
Valley Football Conference Coach of
the Year and was a finalist for the Eddie
Robinson National Coach of the Year
Award and the Liberty Mutual Coach of
the Year honor.
“As Georgia State Football enters its
next chapter with the move to FBS and the
Sun Belt Conference, we need a program-
builder, and that’s exactly what we have
in Trent Miles,” Levick said. “He is a
dynamic leader, a tireless recruiter, and a
talented coach who will take this program
to the next level.
“Through Trent’s leadership and hard
work, he turned the Indiana State football
program into a winner, and he will do the
same for Georgia State,” Levick continued.
“He presented an impressive and detailed
plan during his interview which addressed
how he would build a winning GSU
football program, and we look forward
to helping him implement that plan. We
are delighted to welcome Trent, his wife
Bridget and their children to the Georgia
State family.”
It took just three years for Miles to
produce a winning season as he led his
2010 Sycamores to a 6-5 mark for the
school’s first winning campaign since
1996.
An Indiana State graduate, Miles
guided his alma mater to another winning
season in 2011 and then a 7-4 record in
2012, including a 5-3 mark in the MVFC.
No Sycamore team has won more games
since the 1984 squad on which Miles
played, and the school’s current run of
three straight winning seasons is the
longest in Terre Haute since ISU had six
straight from 1964-69.
Following the 2012 season, Miles was
honored as the AFCA Region Four Coach
of the Year, earning that distinction for the
second time in three seasons.
Under Miles’ direction, ISU rose as
high as No. 14 in the national polls and
up to No. 5 in the GridIron Power Index
in 2012. The No. 14 national ranking
in The Sports Network Top 25 was the
Sycamores’ highest since joining the
head coach
