[Husker] A few College Football Notes

[Steve Reichenbach]

If these allegations are true, then Mangino has had some objectionable
lapses in how he treats players.  Some of those statements would be
unacceptable and warrant correction.

That said, I believe that saying some hurtful things to some players
wouldn't lead to firing a coach who is 5-1 in conference but might be
used as an excuse to fire a coach who is 1-5 in conference.

Unless KU has made such behaviors a personnel issue with Mangino in
the past (with clear expectations and consequences) and he has
manifestly failed to correct them, then if I were on a jury in a civil
suit I think I'd conclude that KU did not fire Mangino for that cause
and would conclude that they fired him because his teams did not win
enough.  That much has seemed pretty clear in all of this.

Just as if I were hiring a coach, this would be an issue with regard
to Mangino, if I were a coach looking at positions, I'd be pretty
reluctant to work for the administration at KU given their actions in
all of this.  The KU administration is handling personnel matters by
orchestrating a negative public-relations campaign.


> thanks for posting this link.  It is great reading, and I now believe that Mangino is about to get fired.  He blames the problems that are coming out on the parents of the players.  His quotes:
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> ""But I can't do the work of some parents, what they should have done before [the players] got to me. Some of these guys are bitter, they are bitter and [the allegations] are about that. 
> "There are some things that happen for 18 years of their lives that I can't change in four years of college. Can't do it. Can't change their behaviors, can't change their attitudes."
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> This guy has real problems, and is in denial, and now blaming parents.  I think he's done as a head coach, and probably as a coach of any kind in anything but professional football.
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