A week ago I'd of agreed with your take, but some of the things coming out of this situation forces me to disagree.

Yelling, cursing, criticizing play, chest poking, jersey/face mask grabbing, etc. is just part of football.

Using confidential information about someones father being an alcoholic, brother being shot,  player coming from an impoverished situation, etc. to degrade and humiliate them in front of the team in the name of "motivation" is way different.

One of those players should have "motivated" Mangino to lose weight by knocking his teeth out of his mouth.

A morbidly obese bully who is uses confidential info to humiliate his players, who is banned from his kids high school games for harassing the refs, who goes ballistic over a parking ticket, and who weighs 450 on a good day doesn't belong in a position of authority at a university, even one as lame as Kansas.
 

Our sports do have spoiled punks in them. Just look at some of the folks in the NFL and NBA. Most of them went to college at some point. However, I agree with WillyJ on the Mangino situation. The allegations of using confidential stuff against players are serious. We'll have to see what transpires with the allegations. Maybe they are actually legitimate.

YES! I knew the Picker had a clue... I guess if you dont like how your 5 free years of college is being administered, you can take your cleats and go home... Oh yeah, those like your books, housing, and food are FREE! What a bunch of wusses. KU just looking for a false reason to fire him because he's fat.

As ridiculous as this situation continues to become, Ignatz is correct.

If KU were winning, would any of these allegations came to light? I doubt it.

Willy J: You notice that some of complaints are coming from 2007! That is of course the year KU won the Orange Bowl. When not a single complaint was lodged. These guys just suddenly got hurt? And, along the lines of the two local high school players who demanded the firing of a coach: why go public?

By the way, where are the ex-Kansas players coming to Mangino's defense?

Haven't heard of one yet. .  that tells me something as well.

By the way Picker, while I disagree with your take here, I always enjoy your writing and the Thursday morning picks are the one must-read for me in the T. World.

Keep up the good work. .

WHEN it happened is not the issue, only IF.  Should you dog a girl for waiting a year to tell someone she was raped?  Kinda beside the point.

And assassin, how is a girl waiting a year to tell someone she was raped even remotely similar to players waiting two years to cry about some coach telling them they're going to end up like their alcoholic dad or telling them they're not hanging out with their homies anymore?

Nope, Football is a violent sport.  If OU was 10-0 there would be many athletes in Norman taping the injury up and playing.  When losses accumulate and the team looses cohesiveness so does morale and the desire to be physically associated with the less than stellar play.   It's easier to pull out, not suit up and disassociate ones self from the losses recorded, I refer you to Team Pansy Syndrome...

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