When Les Miles, the football coach that had won a national championship at LSU, came out of retirement to take the job at the University of Kansas, it raised more than a couple eyebrows. The Jayhawks hadn't seen any success on the gridiron since 2009, and frankly hadn't seen much in the decades before that. As for Miles, he had left LSU in 2016 after a 2-2 start. However, his troubles at Louisiana State started well before that.

In 2013, LSU hired the law firm Taylor Porter in order to conduct an investigation into Les Miles and the reported relationships he was having with female students. The investigation came after multiple accusations were levied against the married football coach. Taylor Porter's investigation determined that Miles' "behavior was inappropriate," however the report did not find that Miles had sexual relationships with any of the students. LSU reprimanded Les Miles in a letter and stipulated the coach could not hire student employees to babysit, and prohibited him from being alone with students.

Despite the problems with Miles and female students, he would still coach at LSU for almost three more seasons. Flash-forward to 2021 and the accusations from 2013 are back. None of the accusations are new, but public outcry put Kansas - where Miles has coached since 2019 - in an awkward spot.

Now Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long (the same AD that hired Bobby Petrino at Arkansas) has found a way out of that spot ... at least for the time being. It was announced late Monday that KU and Les Miles "have mutually agreed to part ways effective immediately."

Terms of the agreement will be released in the coming days and a national search for a new head coach is already underway. Mike DeBord will serve as the acting head coach until an interim head coach is determined.

While the Jayhawks try to find their next head football coach, should they also be looking for a new AD? After hiring Petrino at Arkansas and Les Miles at Kansas, should we maybe start looking at athletic director Jeff Long as being culpable in some way? Either he's the worst judge of character and does zero vetting on hires, or he's knowingly putting college students in harm's way by hiring predators.

This isn't a defense of Les Miles, but what's new; what changed? Nothing. Kansas just fired a head coach for something it knew about before it hired him. And again, if Kansas didn't know - if it somehow wasn't able to use Google search and find the hundreds of articles documenting what happened in 2013, it's on the guy that hired Miles and Petrino before him, Jeff Long.