Kansas University Jayhawks Parts Ways with Head Football Coach Les Miles

Get outta here: Kansas University Jayhawks “mutually parted ways” with head football coach Les Miles earlier this week, after a report emerged detailing Miles’ inappropriate conduct towards female students during his time at LSU. Could have gone with a firing, but whatever.

• The allegations in the report, which include contacting female students via social media and text and meeting them off campus, led to an internal investigation of Miles in 2013 that recommended he be fired.

• But he wasn’t fired. Miles went on to coach another three seasons at LSU, and it clearly didn’t affect his hiring at KU in 2018. Mmmk.

And you, too: In light of Miles’ departure, KU’s athletic director is also leaving. Jeff Long, who hired Miles and had a long-standing friendship with him, stepped down from his position yesterday (though he’ll continue to collect a monthly payment of $125,000 until next February).

• Long maintains that he vetted Miles before hiring him and found “no red flags,” but somehow we’re not buying that. Good riddance to them both.

For more info on the sexual misconduct of college coaches (it’s a recurring issue, sadly), listen to this week’s episode of our podcast The GIST of It.