Kansas fires athletics director Jeff Long

The University of Kansas fired athletics director Jeff Long on Wednesday, a person with knowledge of the matter told USA TODAY Sports.

The person s poke on the condition of anonymity because the school had not made an official announcement.

The move comes less than 48 hours after the school parted ways with football coach Les Miles in the wake of damaging investigative reports about his personal conduct while he was at Louisiana State University.

Long had hired Miles shortly after arriving at Kansas in 2018, leaning on a long personal relationship they had going back to the 1980s when they both worked at Michigan.

But after LSU publicly released the results of a 2013 investigation into allegations of inappropriate sexual advances toward female employees and student workers in the football office, the amount of due diligence Long had done on Miles was called into question.

Long def ended his hiring process in a news conference Tuesday, saying nothing turned up in the “multiple” background checks done on Miles or his conversations with people at LSU. He said he had also asked Miles if there was anything that could cause concern and that Miles assured him there was not.

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