Breaking news tonight: Mark Mangino forced out as head football coach of the University of Kansas. They call it a "settlement," meaning the Fatman is receiving something in the way of payment, but obviously he's be forced to hit the bricks due to the combination of 7 straight losses, including to bitter rival Missouri, to end the season, plus all of the recent allegations of physical and extreme verbal abuse of many of his players. As a Missouri fan who only wishes the worst for KU, it's hard to know how to feel about this. On one hand, Mangino has been better and more successful head coach than KU football has had in a long time, and he had a decent measure of success against MU (going 4-4). But maybe KU brings in a better coach than Mangino, which is the obvious potential downside of the current situation. To follow up on a comment I recently made in this space, I think I'll start a campaign for KU to hire one or more of the Bowden clan to run their program. That's definitely the way they should go, in my humble opinion.Thursday, December 3, 2009
MAN-GONE-O
Breaking news tonight: Mark Mangino forced out as head football coach of the University of Kansas. They call it a "settlement," meaning the Fatman is receiving something in the way of payment, but obviously he's be forced to hit the bricks due to the combination of 7 straight losses, including to bitter rival Missouri, to end the season, plus all of the recent allegations of physical and extreme verbal abuse of many of his players. As a Missouri fan who only wishes the worst for KU, it's hard to know how to feel about this. On one hand, Mangino has been better and more successful head coach than KU football has had in a long time, and he had a decent measure of success against MU (going 4-4). But maybe KU brings in a better coach than Mangino, which is the obvious potential downside of the current situation. To follow up on a comment I recently made in this space, I think I'll start a campaign for KU to hire one or more of the Bowden clan to run their program. That's definitely the way they should go, in my humble opinion.
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