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FAYETTEVILLE - Jeff Long said he was fully briefed on Arkansas' pending NCAA infractions case involving the track and field program before he accepted the job as the Razorbacks' athletic director Tuesday.

Arkansas officials expect to hear within the next two to four weeks whether the NCAA will impose additional sanctions against the track and field program after a contingent of UA officials appeared before the Infractions Committee on April 11 in Indianapolis.

"I'm very aware of that situation, and it had no impact on my decision," said Long, who is coming to Arkansas after being Pittsburgh's athletic director since May 2003. "Chancellor [John ] White shared those things with me right off the bat, and we had a very good conversation about compliance.

" Things can happen in an athletic program without the knowledge of the administrators or even the coaches on the staff, but it's how we respond to those infractions once we become aware of them that's important.

" That's the way we should be judged, and from my understanding Arkansas has handled it in exactly the right way and will come through it very well."

The infractions Arkansas has admitted were committed in 2003 by former assistant track coach Lance Brauman, according to UA's self-report sent to the NCAA, and include Brauman providing or arranging for transportation, tutoring and housing for sprinter Tyson Gay before he was academically eligible.

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