On your Mark…get set…

Go.

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.

Fat meat greasy

Mark Mangino is in some deep trouble.  Everybody is piling on the football behemoth this week.  Forget the fact that he brought winning to the KU football program.  No, they’re getting ready to slam this dude for getting “physical” with players.  Yeah, call it the Bobby Knight Syndrome.

In Mark’s defense, I will agree with him.  He stated that the allegations that are coming out are usually what happens when a team is losing.  Well, he’s right.  When you’re winning, you can get away with a lot of stuff.

Sadly, he’s not winning.

Jack Harry came on WHB-810 this afternoon and he mentioned that it is easy to make a case to fire this guy.  What no one wants to say is that his weight may be at the bottom of the witch hunt.  KU knows that they can’t fire a guy for being fat.  If that was the case, most Americans would be out of work.

Do you buy into the hype that coach is abusive?

Is this what Gloria suggested?

In the news they’re talking about when women should get mammograms.  That had me wondering, did Gloria Squitiro tell her peoples to get mammygrams?

Patrick Swayze didn’t believe in heaven or hell

His widow, Lisa, stated that Patrick “didn’t know” whether or not there was a place after death.  She said he didn’t have a firm belief in God or any higher being.  Larry King followed up with a question, to which Lisa replied, “well, he knows now”.

Why is it that a terminal illness makes people think of things like that?

Root if you can

I had a root canal today.  The second one on this tooth.  I think the last one was maybe 10 years ago.  Doc said there was some infection above the tooth.  I’m not sure if that meant abscess, but he didn’t say anything about puss up there, so I can only assume it was just infected.  Nevertheless, the pain before was extreme.  Now, the post op pain is kind of bitter too.

It’s been so long since I’ve gone through this deal that I almost forgot what they felt like.  The endodontist was great.  I don’t want to use this for a plug for the guy, but if you’re interested, lemme know.  The treatment was so professional that it almost made me wish (ALMOST) that I had another bad tooth so I could come back and see if it was all a fluke.

Hopefully, this will be the only tooth he’ll need to work on.  These teeth aren’t cheap.

KU getting ready to roll fatty out the door

Mark Mangino is in some deep feces right about now.

The no-neck-having football coach has eaten his way to the top and fallen just as soon as he got there.  What was supposed to be a good year, following many (sike) in the line of great KU football teams (est 2008), has turned into mush.  Turns out that the players met with the athletic director about their coach.

I’m not sure what will come of the meeting, as KU is only concerned about winning and will turn on anyone to keep on winning.  That includes players, coaches, athletic directors, and anyone else who gets in the way.

Somebody needs to call Mayflower soon.

Via

Palin blaming you for Palin

Thanks to the toothache I had on last night, I was forced to be up in the middle of the night and flipping channels while trying to battle the pain.  I saw Larry King at one point, and he had a panel of people talking about Sarah Palin’s book and appearance on Winfrey Oprah.

What caught my attention, much like Carrie Prejean’s ‘inappropriate’ interview last week, was the blind loyalty placed in Palin by S.E. Cupp.  Cupp was one of those, I-don’t-care-what-the-facts-are-about-Sarah-comma-I-still-love-her-and-want-her-to-be-president-period-by-the-way-comma-how-do-you-like-my-Palinesque-glasses-question-mark, kind of supporters.  Poor Larry King, as any host should, was trying to get both sides of the issue.

The issue for me was the fact that the “governor” quit her job of serving the people so she could go get paid off the people and then make a mockery of everyone who believes in her story.  This is America.  We know this.  However, politics is a totally different animal and only the strong survive.

I didn’t catch the Winfrey Oprah segment, but I did see the Newsweek cover that Palin posed for.  Newsweek ran the cover and now Palin is talking about the media for being sexist.  SMH.  How do YOU pose for the picture and then blame them for going to print?