This is what happens during a disappointing, losing season. The Kansas Jayhawks have lost five games in a row and with Saturday's game against No. 2 Texas in Austin looming, looks like loss No. 6 isn't far away.
So the chorus calling for Kansas football coach Mark Mangino's head is getting louder as the losses mount.
No one was speaking out when Mangino led the Jayhawks to an Orange Bowl, a school-best 12-1 record and received National Coach of the Year honors. That's not to discount what's going on with Mangino because, as my buddy Jason Whitlock wrote today, Mangino is a bully.
But with the latest allegations of verbal and emotional abuse, comes names.
ESPN cites several former players, including former receiver Raymond Brown, who referenced a rather low blow from Mangino.
[Brown] said that once, his younger brother had been shot in the arm in St. Louis. Then came a game."I dropped a pass and [Mangino] was mad," Brown said. "And I said,
'Yes, sir. Yes, sir.' The yelling didn't bother me. But then he said,
'Shut up!' He said, 'If you don't shut up, I'm going to send you back
to St. Louis so you can get shot with your homies.' I was irate. I
wanted to hurt him to be honest with you."
An anonymous player told Brown that he had confided in Mangino about
his father's alcoholism. The player also told Mangino that he wanted to
be a lawyer. Brown told ESPN:
"One day, [Mangino] said in front of the entire team, 'Are yougoing to be a lawyer or do you want to become an alcoholic like your
Dad?' "
Former Kansas receiver Marcus Herford told ESPN that Mangino
attacked players with their personal business and could "make you feel
as low as you can go."
There's a lot more, including former Jayhawk running back Jocques Crawford saying that Mangino's motto was "break you down to build you up."
Crawford also told The Kansas City Star:
"He would always say things like, 'You're not back home with the homies
in the hood,' " Crawford said. "I have to take offense to that. What do
you have against guys coming from bad neighborhoods and trying to
better themselves by going to college?"
There's more.
KMBC Channel 9 reports that
there are 20 families of current and former players ready to turn over
info to KU's investigators. They claim Mangino rushed players back from
injury, ignoring team doctors. In one instance, Mangino allegedly
threatened to pull a player's scholarship if he didn't attend a team
meeting -- two hours after the player had surgery.
Parents also complained that Mangino bad mouthed their kids to NFL scouts.
Former
KU linebacker Joe Mortensen told KMBC that Mangino once threatened to
send him back to Oakland and told him that Mortensen would "be drinking
out of a brown paper bag" for the rest of his life.
Mangino has denied doing anything inappropriate.
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Consider Saturday's Horns win a mercy killing. Anyway, you cut it KU wins. Mangino's adipose tissue will be flattened along with his ego. I think he will be gotten rid of shortly thereafter. KU can't afford this kind of PR outside of their hoops program. The Big XII shouldn't have to deal with it either. He's become the stereotypical obese,white, insensitive, mud-brained football coach. The kind we all hated to have as a coach in high school. Absolutely pathetic. HORNS will kill him!
HOOK'EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those who don't win, whine.
I'm sure other coaches say the exact same thing to their players, only Mangino probably threatens the majority of his players to call their parents have them pick them up and take them back to Overland Park.
If you can't take it, don't play college sports.
I believe Mangino is capable of this abuse. His kids are jackasses too. What a surprise how they ended up...
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