Mark Mangino Resigns

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Kansas coach Mark Mangino just resigned. This should make the coaching vacancy circle a little more interesting.
 
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CPF has been on rumored for it, but I think his camp is throwing his name out for every job with hopes that someone will bite.
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Fixed the name for you, it's Mark not Rick...

And yes tvolsfan, I agree with you 100%. This whole situation disgusted me. I hope this puts Kansas in the Big XII cellar for the next decade.
 
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I don't know what I was thinking, but thanks. We'll see how it works out for them, but yep, it could very well bite them back badly.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Verbal abuse? What kind of spineless players are these guys?
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This is as pathetic of a story as I have ever seen in college football. So what if a coach makes comments like that? This is football, not drama club. If you can't handle the intensity, you should not play football, period.
 
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Kansas is trying to save on the grocery bills I guess! It cost a lot of money to supply intravenous Big Macs! Sad story though!
 
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Mangino wasted no time getting out of Kansas...


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If he is fired for just what is know then Kansas is a bunch of idiots. They'll never be good at football again.
 
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This leaves a HUGE vacancy at Kansas. The cafeteria, in an aside, has reopened to the general public.
 
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braths said:
This is as pathetic of a story as I have ever seen in college football. So what if a coach makes comments like that? This is football, not drama club. If you can't handle the intensity, you should not play football, period.
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I had a coach in college who called my mother, my father, my sister, my dog and myself names that could never be repeated on this board.

I turned out just fine.
 
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My high school coach called me every name in the book, up to and including racial slurs, I can see why an observer would think it's poor behavior from a coach, but a good coach motivates his players by any means necessary. I turned out ok, 2 time 1st team all state, top 10 finalist for 5A defensive player of the year in the state of Florida, and a Sporting News Junior All American Honorable Mention, had it not been for a career ending neck injury midway through my senior year, you would have seen me in Orange, walking on, on the kick off team...lol

I can assure you I have no hard feelings towards my coach. The players are just whiny little vaginas IMO!

But Mark Mangino is still FAT!
 
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I'm kind of torn about Mangino. I work in the stone industry and one of our sources for limestone is in Kansas, I asked my contact about this and it turns out his son played on special teams for a couple of years there under Mangino. From what he tells me it wasn't a matter of one or two incidents of comments or trying to be a strict disciplinarian. Some of the comments were very personal in nature and insulting, certainly beyond the scope of motivation. It sounds like players finally started to compare notes and realized a pattern.

Some coaches are notorious for comments like these and use them for motivation for players, most of those coaches make sure to seek those players out after practice and inquire about them, any issues they may be having etc, basically just building a relationship with these kids and letting them know they care at least on some level. It appears this was not the coaching style of Mangino. It appears that after a while the opinion of the players became that Mangino was just a mean spirited guy, they believed his actions more closely resembled bullying than anything else, certainly not constructive in the players views anyway.

I'm not saying whether these players are right or wrong, just trying to give insight as to what people inside the program believe. Part of me believes that many of these players probably let Mangino get to them and took it personally. The other part believes that Mangino has a particular style of handling his players that some people are not going to react to well. There has been a lot of talk about Mangino perhaps having some problem with self loathing and projecting that outwards on his football team and from what I gathered from my contact I think he believes this to be the case.

Take this for what it's worth. I personally believe Kansas will not do any better as far as a guy that can get it done on the field, but it was obvious the situation had turned a little too toxic at Kansas for him to stay, at least from the universities perspective.
 
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Just heard Dennis Dodd from CBS say that this is Turner Gills Job.....contact has been made and there is mutual interest...
 
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