Mark Mangino was Kansas' 'White Whale'
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Kansas football coach Mark Mangino poked a player in the chest during a practice, sparking the super secret internal investigation that everyone's not doing a good job of keeping secrets about.
Since the poke, the Jayhawks have lost five in a row. They face Texas on Saturday (good luck with that).
At his weekly press conference, Mangino was asked if he'd lost his team.
"Not one bit," Mangino replied. "I may have lost some people around here, but it's not the players. Take it for what it's worth. You decipher and see."
My decoder ring says he's talking about athletic director Lew Perkins, who is leading the investigation.
There's more allegations and, of course, the YouTube video.
And here's the topper: parking tickets.
Scofflaw Mangino racked up 23 parking tickets for parking in a loading zone near his office between 2004 and 2007, according to the Lawrence Journal-World.
Ticket No. 23 allegedly set Mangino off. The rotund coach tracked down the student meter maid and chewed the guy's ass.
Here are excerpts from report about Mangino's tirade, according to the LJW:
"He got out of the car, slammed the door and came within about a half-foot of my face and started yelling at me, saying that I couldn't answer any of his questions and that he works 16-hour days and has no time to get a pass," Walters wrote, in his report.Mark Mangino: White Whale.
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"This job gives you power, does it?" Mangino said, according to Walters. "You feel real fucking powerful walking around like a big shot, huh? ... Why in the hell else would you be bothering me with this?"
No, Walters said, the office had told him to issue tickets for cars parked in the loading zone.
"So offices tell you what to do?" Mangino said, according to Walters. "Fucking offices walk around telling you what to do all day?"
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"You just don't like talking to me because I'm ethnic, just because I talk with my hands."
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"He then went on to tell me how important he is to this university and how he doesn't have time to spend dealing with all this crap."
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