Career
He is currently the head football coach at Georgia State University, a position he assumed in November 2012. Miles was previously the head coach at Indiana State University from 2008 to 2012. He is a graduate of Indiana State with a bachelor"s degree in criminology.
Miles spent twenty seasons as an assistant football coach at the collegiate level
Before arriving at Indiana State, Miles was the running backs coach at Washington. Miles was an assistant coach in various capacities at New Mexico, Oklahoma, Northern Illinois, and Hawaii, Fresno State, Green Bay Packers, Stanford and Notre Dame prior to becoming the head coach at Indiana State.
Head coach at Indiana State
Miles was named the Sycamores" 23rd head football coach on December 4, 2007. On October 24, 2009, in his second season, Miles earned his first collegiate head coaching victory, when the Sycamores defeated the Western Illinois Leathernecks by a score of 17–14 in the yearly homecoming game.
The game drew a crowd of over 6,000 fans.
lieutenant was International Skating Union"s first victory in 33 games. Following the Sycamores" first road victory (30–24 over Youngstown State University) in seven seasons (2004), the 2010 season marked the first winning season for Indiana State since 1996. The Sycamores finished the 2010 season with a 6–5 record, tied for third in the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) at 4–4.
On Saturday, October
13. 2012 at the Fargodome, in Fargo, North Dakota. Trent Miles" unranked Indiana State Sycamores upset top-ranked North Dakota State, 17-14.
Indiana State"s Johnny Towalid returned 2 interceptions of North Dakota State. A 27-yarder in the second quarter and a 31- yarder in the fourth quarter.
Indiana State"s Shakir Bell rushed for 96 yards on 26 carries.
Indiana State moved to 5-2, 3-1 Missouri Valley on the season. Head coach at Georgia State
Miles became the second head coach in the history of the young Georgia State Panthers football program, succeeding the retiring Bill Curry. The program only began playing intercollegiate football in the 2010 season, but planned to jump to the top, National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I FBS level, by 2013 and joined the Sun Belt Conference.
In his first high-profile hire, Miles selected Jeff Jagodzinski as his offensive coordinator.
