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Go now.
The pressure to fire KU football coach Mark Mangino has gone to another level. In this struggling economy, you would think it would almost anti-American to see so many people publicly calling for a guy’s head. Yet, I work with a couple of people who are flat out stealing money for their lack of performance, but I digress.
KC Star columnist Jason Whitlock has put down his mixed plate from Gates to pile bones on the head of Mangino. Sure, Whitlock wrote the column the other day talking about the coach’s weight being at the root of the movement to get him out of Lawrence. It is one in a long line of “shock em” columns that Whitlock throws up and hope it sticks. I don’t know if many people give much credence to his columns, much like this blog. Although, my days of the shock and awe posts are well behind me. (insert LOL here)
I’m up this early thanks to that root canal I had on yesterday. I got a chance to peek at a few stories on some local news sites as well as some of the area blog sites. Everyone has an opinion about Mark Mangino. You either love him or hate him. However, if you hate KU, you’re probably loving all of this right now. That’s to be expected of the typical KU hater.
If you are in Mangino’s corner, then you don’t like the way this thing is playing out. Some folks are saying that today will be the day when the university announces that Mangino has “resigned” or will be “suspended until an investigation is completed” or something else along that line. Can they afford to fly this guy to Texas this weekend with all of the distraction that’s going on around the team?
Time will tell. Lew Perkins is on the clock.