Thoughts on the Mangino situation at Kansas?

[BCash]

What started all this (him yelling at a player and putting is finger in his chest) is weak and just goes with the territory of being a football player. But the other stuff I've heard that former players said he did is ridiculous. One former, whos brother had recently been shot, says Mangino once told him he'd send him back to St. Louis "to be shot with his homies" if he dropped another pass. Another former player said that he confided in his team about his father's alcoholism, then later Mangino publicly humiliated him, saying he'd end up being an alcoholic like his dad.

That's crossing the line in my opinion. Plus, I couldnt handle someone that fat and disgusting talking to me like that.

If they lose out, is that fat piece of **** out of a job?

 

[Rabid]

But, I understand the players being offended by that "back to the hood" talk.

Especially, from a fat nasty bastard like him. That would be hard to take.

 

[jakldawg]

your run of the mill "you can't tell your *** from a hole in the ground" yelled at close range, but way more personal and dickish. For more examples, check out the reaming he gave a campus ticket writer.
(and amazing how none of this came to light when they were on their way to the Orange Bowl)

 

[Todd4State]

It seems to me, and I don't exactly keep up with KU football a whole lot, that he is losing control of his team.

If he's saying the stuff that he is, he's going to have a hard time getting his players to play for him. And it could very well be why they have collapsed this year.

 

[TX Mud Dawg]

without the head coach present would seem to me that something is up. Maybe he wanted to ask them questions privately, maybe he was talking about an investigation and telling them to stay away from the media, who knows but it happen.

 

[lawdawg02]

but i don't think mangino really should've gotten the tickets.

The summer before Kansas football would embark on its most successful season in history, the team's coach would be accused of verbally berating a KU student who had issued him the latest of nearly two dozen tickets for illegally parking in a loading zone near his office.

shouldn't any parking area where mangino gets in or out of his car be deemed a "loading zone" anyway?

 

[DerHntr]

he mainly said that he couldn't do in four years what parents couldn't do in 18 years and that he didn't care that the parents were mad that their kids couldn't take being disciplined. there was a bunch more to it but that is the jist of it.

i don't blame him for being mad that 18 year olds these days, and especially a large percentage on D1 college football teams, are whiney baby little bitches. the problem is he knew this when he took the job and should deal with it in a better way than what is being reported.

saw him live this year. that is one huge mother17er. i bet he was the fattest person in the entire stadium.

 

[Todd4State]

It's not the fact that he is discipling the players, it's the fact that he's saying stuff like he's going to send them back home so that they can get shot by their homies and that they're going to end up an alcoholic like their Dad.

You just can't say that.

 

[alabamadog]

thats not good. It was hilarious watching espn this morning listening to a recording where he said something like, "Our program has discipline and structure" and a video of his fat *** on the sideline.

 

[DerHntr]

he got fired from a head coaching position at a high school in Pennsylvania. one of the accusations at the time was that he had the injured players cleaning the locker rooms and bathrooms because they needed something to do. and of course he yelled at them too much.

decent article....link... but it is a bit fishy to have an anonymous source about a damn high school coaching situation from years ago

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

He did more for Kansas than Jackie Sherrill 1991-2000 did for The Mississippi State University. Kansas was a HORRID football program when he took it over. The past two seasons, they've been title contenders. I think someone in the Kansas Athletic Department wants him gone for whatever reasons.

Personally, he needs to take the buyout, get a gastric bypass or two, and spend the next year losing 300 or so pounds. Being that fat and angry, you'll only wind up face down on the kitchen floor and the EMT's will have a heck of a time carting your corpse to the hearse.