7:24 PM ET Kansas athletic director Jeff Long said he and the university were unaware of any wrongdoing in Les Miles’ past before hiring him as head coach of the football team in 2018. Miles was placed on administrative leave Saturday amid accusations of inappropriate behavior toward female students during his head-coaching tenure at LSU.
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4:37 PM ET In November 2018, Kansas hired Les Miles to win the news conference, among other things. Not 28 months later, the school cut ties with the coach during a late-night news dump on a Monday in March. The abrupt and embarrassing end to Miles’ tenure this week shouldn’t be dismissed because KU lives
9:21 AM ET A University of Texas committee formed in November to investigate the history of “The Eyes of Texas” released a 58-page report on Tuesday which says the school song was not written with racist intent, but acknowledges its first public performance was likely by performers in blackface during a minstrel show. The song,
11:05 PM ET Les Miles is out as Kansas’ head football coach four days after a report that accused him of inappropriate behavior toward female students while he coached at LSU was made public. Kansas athletic director Jeff Long said on Friday the university would be conducting a full review to determine the appropriate steps
10:05 AM ET Indiana football coach Tom Allen has agreed to a new seven-year contract through the 2027 season that will pay him an average salary of $4.9 million per year, the school announced Monday. Allen, who was signed through the 2026 season, had an additional year added to his contract after Indiana’s Gator Bowl
8:38 PM ET Kansas has placed head football coach Les Miles on administrative leave and the university will conduct a full review to determine the appropriate next steps on his future, Jayhawks athletic director Jeff Long said in a statement Friday night. The decision came after reports into Miles’ conduct while he coached at LSU
3:16 PM ET Former LSU athletic director Joe Alleva recommended in 2013 that Les Miles be fired as head coach of the football program after accusations of inappropriate behavior with female student workers, according to a scathing investigative report released on Friday that detailed systemic failures by LSU to appropriately report incidents of athletic-related sexual
5:04 PM ET The Tennessee Volunteers have notified former interim head football coach Kevin Steele that he will not be retained on Josh Heupel’s staff but will receive his full $900,000 salary over the next two years after less than two months on the job. Steele was hired by Tennessee on Jan. 12 as a
3:19 PM ET Associated Press STORRS, Conn. — The University of Connecticut announced Friday that it has agreed to two-year contract extensions for men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley and football coach Randy Edsall. The terms of both deals remain the same, the school said. Edsall’s contract, which was to expire in December, now runs through
7:00 AM ET Shoulder pads popping. Whistles chirping. Coaches shouting. After a one-year hiatus because of COVID-19, college football’s spring practices are back as teams slowly begin to resume more normalcy amid the worldwide pandemic. What hasn’t changed since a year ago are the teams at the top of the sport’s upper echelon — Alabama,