FAYETTEVILLE — Nearly eight months after he was fired for convenience at Arkansas, Jeff Long was hired as athletics director at Kansas on Thursday.
Long will be formally introduced at a news conference next Wednesday in Lawrence, Kan., and will start his new job on Aug. 1, according to a University of Kansas news release.
Long will be paid $1.5 million annually for five years at Kansas, which should offset the remaining funds owed to him through the buyout provisions in his Arkansas contract. Long was owed $4.6 million through June 2022 to buy out his $1.