All that was dug up over 15 years of his life. The press could find similar on Bo if he was fired I'm sure. Personally I think it's awesome he had the little weasles that were causing problems cleaning toilets. Big deal - have you been to a high school sporting event lately? Parents are bitches. The only reason why Mangino got called out is because he's in the public eye. Any other parent and it would have been brushed off. He won't be the HC, he probably won't have kids in high school so we don't have to worry about that.
Show me where it was said they had problems, they were injured. Now kids who get injured are problem causers? Parents and coaches have a responsibility to uplift and protect the young lives that they are trusted with, guessing you don't have kids. The press always looks for negative stories, if they were there with Bo, they would have been found and ran with after the A&M incident. Bo isn't a saint, but he has his players backs. That isn't the case with Mangino, the only backs he cared about, were his own and a rack of baby back ribs.
As for the penalties, KU is always going to be struck w/ pentalties. They pay their entire roster on the basketball team. K-State as well. How as an OC is he going to be responsible for academic fraud? We aren't asking him to take over the program for Bo, we're asking him to come in and implement an offfense that can travel 20 yards into field goal range...something our current OC couldn't do.
I don't know, if a GRADUATE ASSISTANT can get KU in trouble for academic fraud, pretty sure an OC could too. If a d-line coach can single handedly bring a team into question (John Blake), pretty sure an OC could also.
Having a personal vendeta against the guy is one thing, I can understand it. I live in KC, and watched him kick the sh!t out of NU a time or two. It's wasn't fun being a Husker fan here while he was coaching the Jayhawks. But you can't deny the fact that he's a genius on the offensive side of the ball. Him and Beck paired up to lead the #2 scoring offense (at KU no less). He only needs about the #20 scoring offense here. And we have better athletes.
Personal vendetta? Not sure how pointing out historical facts about a coach equals a personal vendetta.
Watson has had 3 years here, in two of those he's finished 17th and 28th (will probably be higher once we play Washington) sounds like close to 20th to me outside of 2009 which is that number that you think the NU OC needs to average.
Yes, KU's offense was 2nd in 2007 in scoring.
But they did that playing an awful schedule
Here's the ranks of scoring D's KU faced in 2007
111th
75th in FCS
116th
115th
86th
112th
78th
49th
114th
79th
93rd
37th
3rd
Avg- 83rd with the FBS schools (I didn't factor in the FCS school)
They averaged 43 PPG that year, but against top 100 defenses they were held to 2 TD's less per game, and the top 50 defenses they faced held them 20 points under their average. They just got a magical schedule that year.
NCAA online stats go back to 2001, here's Mangino's offenses
01- 27th (OU)
02- 96th
03- 36th
04- 76th
05- 83rd
06- 29th
07- 2nd
08- 22nd
09- 42nd
Average- 46th
Watson's
01- 23rd
02- 51st
03- 63rd
04- 81st
05- 78th
07- 28th
08- 18th
09- 75th
10- 28th
Average 49th
So explain to me again why Mangino is a mastermind and Watson is an idiot?
Some are just cut out to be assistants. Mangino is one of those. And he's a hell of one at that. I don't think she should be completely cast asside because of what he did at KU. Most of KU people I've run into are so high on themselves that to be successful there you probably couldn't coach and earn respect at the same time. You see many people loving Gill right now?
What has Mangino proved as an assistant? He inherited a Mike Leach designed offense in 2000 and got a NC, but that offense got worse as the season went on, his last 4 games that year he averaged 19.75 PPG, very Watson like in "big games" when it counted, he also only led the 2000 offense to 12 against an unranked Oklahoma State team in the Bedlam game.
In 2001 his offense fell to 27th, which while good, was plagued by offenses that couldn't score when the big games came, scoring only 10 points vs NU, 13 against unranked OSU and 10 against Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl.
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