So, will Long be patient or will he fire Beaty before Big 12 conference play?

I think he sets some goals for Beaty and if he meets them he gets to stay beyond one more year. Fail and he's gone. In any case, I think he'll get this year for sure. He'll use this year to assess options and be ready to make the decision by end of the season.

What does it matter if Long fires Beaty? He'll hire somebody else who will suck just like Beaty, Weis and Gill. Look at Long's track record at Arkansas - he put Bobby Petrino in charge of Arkansas despite his character issues. When he was forced to fire him (and no credit for Long for firing Petrino), he brought in John L. Smith, who took a championship-caliber Arkansas team and tanked with a 4-8 record. Then he brought in Bret Bielema, who underachieved at UA before getting fired for posting a losing record too. So it doesn't matter who Long hires to replace Beaty. Long is only slightly less bad at hiring football coaches than Zenger.

It's crap like this that has driven me to find another football team to root for - the Iowa Hawkeyes - and with Long in charge of trying to turn football around, it looks like I'll be wearing black and gold during football season for the next 20 years.

If anything, an endorsement from Sweet Lew is a kiss of death.

I just hope Bill Self doesn't leave Kansas while Jeff Long is AD.

So we got this going for us. Which is nice.

Despicable Lou Perkins chimes in his worthless opinion. He should keep his pie hole shut as to anything to do with KU.

How reassuring to have the endorsement of the man who started the slide of the KU football program. Much like Trump endorsing the environmental and civil rights records of the next president. I trust new AD Long can overcome this rough pr beginning.

I'm not sure what puzzles me more, the fact that Lew Perkins is still in Lawrence or that someone actually gives a damn what Lew Perkins thinks about a hire, this is a guy that hired Turner Gill, in fact hired him over Jim Harbaugh!

Wait a minute, lawyers have a class on ethics?

Keegan is a pot stirrer. He calls one of the worst ADs in history for comment just to piss everybody off and get the reaction that it is getting from this comment section. Lew Perkins was and always will be "Hognose" which is what my dad called him every Saturday he walked down the hill. He sucked so bad he would have somebody drive his car away from the stadium when he arrived.

Beaty is only going to be around long enough to facilitate his replacing. Not exactly sure how long that will be, but he should probably begin cleaning out his office in preparation!