The parade of ex-players with stories of mistreatment at the hands of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino keep coming.
The latest, former defensive lineman Cory Kipp, told the Lawrence Journal-World that in August 2003, Mangino punished him for not weighing-in earlier in the day. Kipp's punishment: bear-crawling across Memorial Stadium's AstroTurf on his hands and feet.
Kipp began the crawl and, after moving several yards, felt a burning sensation in his hands. On multiple occasions, Kipp said, he stopped to complain that the turf was burning his hands -- according to a University of Arkansas report, artificial playing surfaces have been documented at up to 199 degrees in temperature -- but was ordered by Mangino, who was walking alongside the crawling player, to keep going.The burns on Kipp's hand needed treatment for three weeks, but he wasn't given time to recover. Kipp said he was forced to practice, saying KU's trainer would heavily wrap his hand with padding. After practice, the padding would be soaked in blood.
By the time Kipp had finished, the skin near the heel of his hand had been completely seared, and photos provided to the Journal-World depict blistering and a sizable area of missing skin.
Mangino didn't comment on the story, and the internal investigation continues.
Meanwhile, Kansas' football program is stuck in limbo as the university decides Mangino's fate.
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you think this Kipp guy is a big "coward" bob in op? He is no "coward", this is actually a great thing he did, because it prooved to everyone how abusive this coach really was in the past and in the present after Mangino had lied to everyone that he never did those things to his players and that their parents and them only wanted 15 minates of fame! Kipp showed everyone that Mangino was lieing the whole entire time to everybody on his interview about these matters of abuse to his past and present players. If this happend to you and you found out your former head coach was still treateing his players very abusivly both physicaly and mentaly as he did you, youd do the samething!
bob in op, you said you played football? well you must have played for some sorry Div 3 football team with a looseing record for a coach that didnt care if his team lost or won, because you obvisly dont know much about the damage Mangino has done to his players and to the program! think about it, HS recruits are going to choose not to come to KU to play because of what Mangino has done!!!
Listen, when you sign on to play football for someone, you play by their rules. if you have to weigh in, weigh in. it's that simple. If this was such a big deal, why wouldn't he have come forward earlier. this kipp guy is a coward. if you had that big of a problem with it, come forward when it was happening, not just tack it on to the coattails of someone else's complaint.
This is the first, and to my mind the only, serious allegation I have yet heard leveled against Mangino...
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