Highlights from Jeff Long’s press conference Wednesday at the University of Kansas. Long, who was named the university’s new director of athletics July 5, will begin his role Aug. 1.
Long brings more than two decades of experience in athletic administration at the Division I level, most recently at Arkansas, where he led a program comprising 19 sports and 460 student-athletes from 2008 through 2017, before the university fired him this past November.