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Big 12 Cob of the Week: Can A Fat Man Fit Under A Bus, Texas A&M, and Colorado

Todd Reesing tries to protect himself while the KU program comes down around him. It won't help. If that's Mangino above him he'd better run now. The impact crater will be enormous.

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Todd Reesing tries to protect himself while the KU program comes down around him. It won't help. If that's Mangino above him he'd better run now. The impact crater will be enormous.

I got tired of waiting for Corn Blight to give me a nomination so the heck with him I'm going to do one of my own. Maybe it's not fair to Husker Mike and Jlew because it didn't happen last week but it happened because of last week. I going to make this nomination because its the 800-pound gorilla ha ha ha that can't be ignored even though everyone in Kansas want us to.

Q: Can Mark Mangino fit under a bus?

A: Only if it's a really big bus.

My nomination goes to Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins. It's pretty clear by now that Perkins wants Mangino gone, to the point that he's released university documents detailing an example of Mangino's bad behavior. Oh. Maybe Perkins didn't release those they were leaked! We've heard about Mangino "putting his finger in the chest of a player" as if its a bad thing. First he could have put his finger somewhere else we'd have to hear about and second there are 300 pound guys running into each other as part of the sport. If some player can't handle his coach putting his finger in his chest perhaps he could take up a board game like Clue or better yet Chutes N Ladders. 

Star-divide

If Perkins wanted to fire Mangino, why doesn't he just call him into his office and fire him. Because that requires a spine. Better to drag your own coach through the mud than to have people question you. That makes me want to work for him right there.

KU will get a better coach. They'll be a football powerhouse. Taxes will go down, every one will get free chickens and no one who graduated a Jayhawk will ever die again. Good luck with that, Lew

Husker Mike: 

Every so often this season, A&M jumps up and looks like an up and coming program.  Then they go out and start swirling the drain again.  This week, it was the 2nd quarter against Oklahoma, giving up four touchdowns to stretch a 14-10 deficit to 42-10 and a trip behind the Sooners woodshed.  We expect performances like that from Baylor, especially now that Robert Griffin is out.  We've grown accustomed to it from Colorado because of suckage at head coach...and now A&M seems to have become Colorado South.  Or is Colorado now A&M North?  Oh Bill Byrne, what have you done?

Jlew: 

Oh Colorado we can't have a week without mentioning you. Just when we think you are going to show some pride, by beating Texas A&M, you go and lose to Iowa State. This is not just a single game aberration (see NU vs ISU) this is a continued melt-down. Four trips in side the 10 yard line resulted in 3 points. CU is now 2-18 in road games with Hawkins running the show, and CU will miss a bowl for the 3rd time in 4 season.

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Your Vote for the Big 12 Cob of the Week:
KU Athletic Director Lew Perkins For His Gutless Handling of Mark Mangino
98 votes
Colorado - Because They Suck
53 votes
Texas A&M - because they may suck more than Colorado and that's saying a whole bunch
23 votes

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talking to much smack about Colorado we have to go play there this year. At times this year, not very often, they have looked decent. And a decent defense on any given day will keep you in the game against Nebraska. A couple of turnovers and its an Iowa State day all over again. Plus they always play their best game against us. Plus, I know he isn’t in the Big XII but the cob of the week should go to none other than old Bill, New Englands Fearless Leader!!! His arrogance finally caught up with him.

by Huzkerfan on Nov 18, 2009 6:37 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

with regards to smack

I guess…. I don’t mind it so much as long as it doesn’t get personal, vulgar, or profane. I think it’s one of the funner things we can do with sports as long as everyone keeps a sense of humor about it.

And to be honest, I have pretty thick skin and don’t mind at all having to own up when I’ve talked smack and my team doesn’t back it up.

Speaking of which, shouldn’t we be hating on Kansas State a lot more than we are now? :)

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by Jon Johnston on Nov 18, 2009 10:56 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Mangino has made the jayhawks decent

Its not like they have a great history of great football teams so why get rid of a proven winner. Ask some former players and T.O. practices were no picnic either.

by huskermic on Nov 18, 2009 8:16 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

It's The Parking Ticket Thing That Bugs Me

It’s one thing to get screamed at by Coach if you’re a football player and screw up in practice, but when Mangino (allegedly) screams at a student parking attendant who’s simply doing his/her job, that’s another issue. It smacks of the “do-you-know-who-I-am” thing. Is Mangino another authority-figure type who thinks the rules don’t apply to him? I’m presuming that he has his own reserved parking space, and if so, the whole incident makes Mangino look bad.

by Section 37 on Nov 18, 2009 8:51 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

oh it does

for sure. but why leak the documents? this is a smear campaign, pure and simple.

by Cobby on Nov 18, 2009 9:32 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

If he’d acted the same way towards a flight attendant he’d be in jail as fast as they could get him there.

by davereid on Nov 19, 2009 12:20 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Oh, and BTW:

The Journal-World received documentation regarding the incident through an open records request filed earlier this year. The request yielded information about Mangino’s parking tickets and other documentation regarding the incident with a Parking and Transit employee.

by davereid on Nov 19, 2009 12:25 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

so they

sat on it for a while until they knew it would be a problem? either way……

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by Jon Johnston on Nov 19, 2009 10:23 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah, but at least that one you can attribute to the newspaper and not the AD.

by davereid on Nov 19, 2009 3:14 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

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