Long hired as new athletics director for Jayhawks

Former Arkansas athletics director has a new gig, hired at Kansas as the athletics that will give him a nice raise.

Long signed a five-year contract worth $1.5 million annually with Kansas Athletics Inc. paying $1.3 million of the total and the university paying the remaining $200,000, according to a story at ESPN.com.

Long replaces Sheahon Zenger, who was fired in May after coming to Kansas in 2011 due to a lack of progress, according to the story.

Long was the athletics direct at Arkansas from 2008 until last year when the school fired him, with the school’s chancellor saying he had “lost the support of many of our fans, alumni, key supporters, and members of the university leadership.”

He was the first chairman of the CFP selection committee in 2014 and 2015 and remained on the committee through last year.