OT: Mangino out

[SMU 86]

He is a victim of political correctedness. What a farce. Wyatt Posey at Texas Tech in 1953 or later at Georgia would not have lasted a minute today.

Some of the things Mangino said was beyond political correctness.

[George S. Patton]

Nothing like perception being reality. Remind us again of what he said?

[BUS]

Send you back home to get shot on the streets with your hommies.

That is WAY different than... Do you want me to bring a pink skit for practice tomorrow?
Or my grandmother can lift more than that.

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

Don't forget about mentioning that a player's father is an alcoholic ,in a tirade in front of the team, after the player had confided in him about the matter.

[George S. Patton]

I just wonder how it would have played if KU was 9-3, playing Texas tomorrow for the Big 12 championship and with a trip to the Cotton Bowl as a fallback.

I'm just sayin'....

Because if that happened, you would have seen Mangino probably go to the podium, get emotional and cry, apologize and say he has grown from this and will grow from this. And that he will be a better man for it.

He would have been issued a reprimand, some probationary function like speaking engagements about abuse and then move on. By the spring, it would have been a memory.

The news cycle got him.

[SMU 86]

I think they asked him to apologize and he wouldn't.

[George S. Patton]

I just don't think it's as simple as that and his critics seized the poor season -- 0-7 to finish? -- as the blood in the water to really go after him.

Throw in the media sharks and this story got so much traction, it was pretty silly. IMO KU athletic administration should not skate on this. If anyone is going to say no one in that department had an agenda mixed in here, then they're only lying to themselves.

[RGV Pony]

I do think if he looked more like, say, Gruden than, well...himself, perhaps he wouldnt have been fired.

[BUS]

That is what I was thinking.
Happens all the time in business. Not just size but tattoo's, clothes, etc.

Can not be proved but it happens.

[jayhawk_93]

Mangino was fired because he was impossible to work for and for some to play for. This article will give you a little more insight.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news;_ylt=Aif3WtE_..q8wtWnHmC2orkcvrYF?slug=jn-manginocol20309&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Being an ogre was acceptable for folks while he was winning, but it quickly becomes unacceptable when you go 1-7 in the Big 12 playing in a division as weak as the Big 12 North is. While I appreciate what he did, especially in 2007, overall his teams were average to mediocre. 50-48 overall, 23-41 conference record, 4-20 record against the South division and a 10-28 record on the road. 3 Bowl game victories are great especially for my football challenged school. However, in a time where you can play 4 patsies in the non-con and pick up 3 victories and a losing conference record overall in a crappy Big 12 North, it doesn't take much to go to a bowl these days.