Mark Mangino Under Fire.... From Former Player's Parents??????
by Jon Johnston on Nov 17, 2009 2:47 PM CST
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Apparently Kansas Athletic Director Lew Perkins had a meeting with a group of KU players regarding Mark Mangino's behavior. One rumor is that Mangino got into an altercation with one of his players earlier this season, only to be balanced by another rumor than said he ate one.
Funny what a five-game losing streak can do to your career.
It's nasty news for Mark Mangino and the KU faithful. But it gets worse. Former players' parents are organizing against him.
The source said there is an organized group of former players' parents ready to air their concerns about Mangino as well.
No one can help him now. Remember the line - "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". Well, these days you can toss the "woman" part, replace it with "mommy" and you'll get a small taste of what's going to happen next.
In the long run it won't matter. If Kansas runs a program so full of weiner boys that their parents have to get involved, what difference does the head coach make?
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I have no idea which rumors possibly might be true at this point. All I know is this sucks for the players that this had to happen during the season and before they’ll have a primetime TV slot playing Texas. This can’t possibly be good for their recruiting either.
by davereid on Nov 17, 2009 3:15 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
From what it sounds like, current players might be throwing him under the bus, too. It looks like Hawkins won’t be the only Big XII North coaching casuality this year.
GBR!!!
by Screwface on Nov 17, 2009 3:42 PM CST via mobile reply actions 0 recs
Hawkins won a game. I doubt he’s gone with Colorado’s finances.
by davereid on Nov 17, 2009 3:56 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
So KU has decided to just be a basketball school huh?
Must have been what that fight was about between the football and basketball teams.
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by JLew on Nov 17, 2009 3:56 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I was listening to the Sports Animal out of OKC today, a caller called in claiming to be a parent of a current player. He stated his son was on the phone with the NCAA for 50 minutes discussing Mangino actions. Why would the NCAA be getting involved?
by rueschmike on Nov 17, 2009 4:31 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
weiner boys
Good one :)
Maybe they’re parents of basketball players.
by theise on Nov 17, 2009 5:03 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Mommy Mommy,
the big bad man made me run more than I wanted to. Please mommy make him stop!!
What a joke!!! If you can’t take it QUIT!!!! If I was one of the former players who’s mother was doing this I would have a heart to heart with my mother and tell her to shut her ass up, can you imagine how embarrassing that would be. I would want to crawl in a hole and die if my mother had to defend me at 20 years of age. Talk about crushing any sense of manhood you had. I don’t know about any other guys out there but I don’t want my mom to have to deal with my problems. What happens when these guys get out into the real world?
by Huzkerfan on Nov 17, 2009 5:57 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I'd probably go online
and act real tough
by PopeSoria on Nov 17, 2009 10:51 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
+1
bwwahahahaha….. maybe that’s where it’s all coming from, then…. !
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by Jon Johnston on Nov 17, 2009 11:52 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
This is exactly what happened to my highschool team after our class graduated.
3 5A State Championships in a row. ala Cedric Benson. Yes, I’m famous because I played / got runover everyday by him.
Anyway, after our class graduated, parents started to get involved stating that the coaches where too mean and that they are just kids and couldn’t deal with a screaming coaches and being injured all the time. Bunch of weiners!!
Shortly after that, Parchman retired and the football program has been in shambles ever since.
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by KWashburn on Nov 17, 2009 6:13 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Look at the fear in this player's eyes when he realizes he is about to become dinner!
This video is probably the closest thing you will find to spontaneous human conbustion on the internet…the full fury of Mangino
by HuskEric on Nov 17, 2009 6:15 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Maybe if
more coaches would react like that to a stupid celebration penalty it wouldn’t be a problem. I would also bet money that player doesn’t do that again. Plus, I would venture to guess that the celebration penalty issue had been addressed before by Mangino and they were warned not to do it.
by Huzkerfan on Nov 17, 2009 6:24 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Check out this quote-
“Not one bit,” Mangino said Tuesday [in response to a question about whether he’s lost his team] at his weekly media gathering. "I may have lost some people around here, but it’s not players." Asked what he meant, Mangino said, “Take it for what it’s worth. You decipher it and see.”
Is it wrong that I would kinda like him as our OC? (Lets just assume that Watson went and took a head coaching job far away or something).
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by JLew on Nov 17, 2009 6:59 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think Memorial Stadium’s coaching boxes could handle that kind of load…
GBR!!!
by Screwface on Nov 17, 2009 7:58 PM CST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
You know it's over
when they start releasing stuff like this:
http://www2.kusports.com/news/2009/nov/17/coachs-history-parking-tickets/
And you know that somewhere there’s an altercation over food that’s going to come out.
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by Jon Johnston on Nov 17, 2009 9:54 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
To be fair
Can you really expect him to walk very far?
This all could have gone away with one of these-
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by JLew on Nov 17, 2009 10:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
The
weight issue doesn’t bother me and I don’t want to take any cheap shots at him because he is an easy target. I like Mangino and hope he continues to coach. I applaud him for jumping the damn ticket gestapo. I would have loved to give them a piece of my mind a couple of times when I was in college!
by Huzkerfan on Nov 18, 2009 6:47 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
One of my former students
played for Mangino for four years. I have heard stories of his blow ups. I got the impression that he they were quite common and also full of rage. However, I am not so sure that it doesn’t happen at most other places as well, perhaps not from the head coach. I also have vivid memories of a Charlie McBride ass chewing at Ames as I was sitting in the front row right behind the bench when he absolutely unloaded f-bomb after f-bomb on his defensive unit when they were on the bench. We don’t know everything that happened at KU, but I have to guess that the poor record and the incident between the football team and basketball team have more to do with this than how Mangino treats his players. That’s just people with an axe to grind piling on.
by jon's only friend on Nov 18, 2009 7:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
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