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Heartland College Sports: Big 12 College Football Podcast

Kansas Jayhawks Fire Les Miles and Jeff Long

Heartland College Sports: Big 12 College Football Podcast

Pete Mundo

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.9836 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Kansas Jayhawks have fired Les Miles and Jeff Long, plus we rank the "next first" Big 12 football champion, and we've got the final report on "The Eyes of Texas" coming out. Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Well, boy, as if it couldn't get any worse for Kansas football, it did.

0:06.3

I'm Pete Mundo, we're Heartland College Sports Weekly.

0:09.3

Part of Heartlandcollege Sports.com, your independent, big 12.

0:13.7

Digital media outlet, good to be with you here for another week.

0:16.8

Let's get to this Les Miles disaster.

0:19.6

The guy got fired.

0:21.5

You want to call it mutually parting ways, whatever it might be.

0:23.9

That's fine.

0:25.3

But he's no longer the head coach of KU.

0:27.1

He got $2 million to go away because of what happened here in the wake of the report coming out,

0:33.3

tying him to LSU and some of the certainly inappropriate conduct that allegedly took

0:40.6

place during his time as the head coach at LSU.

0:43.1

And if you missed it, that included back in 2013 inappropriately inviting staffers to a hotel room,

0:51.7

apparently trying to kiss a staffer, all things that are wholly inappropriate,

0:57.1

especially when you're Les Miles.

0:58.8

You're the head coach at LSU.

1:00.5

And let's be honest, Les Miles was at that point in time, arguably the most powerful man

1:06.6

in the state of Louisiana.

1:08.5

Not just like the head of the football program.

1:10.7

When you're a national

1:11.6

championship winner at LSU, you are arguably bigger than the governor. I mean, that's an

1:18.6

abuse of power, right? There's no doubt about it. So Les Miles gets let go. I don't know how

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