Showing posts with label jayhawks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jayhawks. Show all posts

Monday, December 14, 2009

Fire Turner Gill already?

So Turner Gill was the new Kansas Jayhawks coach for like 30 minutes when some idiot or a group of idiots created FireTurnerGill.com. Why?

Check out this logic:

Typically when a program fires a two-time Coach of the Year, a big name hire can be expected. Typically if a coach can't win in the MAC, they won't succeed in the BigXII. Well, the Jayhawks thought otherwise. How about a coach with a 20-30 overall record?

With all the great names out there for hire, Lew(ser) Perkins settled for a cheap, easy pick. This was a lazy attempt at a national head coaching search. If this administration wants to become a national program, make a national hire!

You can't predict failure, but anyone can see this train-wreck coming.
To actually consider Gill a failure at Buffalo shows this person's or group's lack of knowledge about college football. What Gill accomplished with the Bulls is one of the more impressive coaching jobs of the past few decades.

When he took over the Bulls in 2006, Buffalo a combined record of 16-85 since 1997. After a tough 2-10 first year, Gill lead UB to an 18-20 mark. It may not be a winning season, but it's much more impressive than what Mark Mangino did in 2007 when KU went 12-1.

Buffalo was the worst Division I program in the nation when Turner Gill arrived. That's right, worse than Temple.

As he leaves, the Bulls have won a Mid-American Conference championship and you have to go back to the 1960s to find a time UB was this competitive.

This is a great hire Kansas. Jim Harbaugh wasn't leaving Stanford for Lawrence, Kan. He's waiting for Michigan to dump Rich Rod next year. Harbaugh was using KU for leverage in Palo Alto.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Should Mangino be fired?

Let's see if I have this straight: Mark Mangino just became an abusive, name-calling ass that Kansas may not be able to retain as its football coach. So he wasn't this same overbearing, in-your-face guy who stared down anorexia and defeated it as he guided the Jayhawks to a 12-1 record in 2007 and won National Coach of Year?

Of course he was. Just now KU is 5-5 and reeling from a five-game losing skid that threatens to keep Kansas out of a bowl game. That seems likely as the Jayhawks close the season with No. 3 Texas and Missouri.

According to the Associated Press, the school is investigating an unspecified personnel issue involving Mangino. The coach even said he's lost the support of "some people around here." ESPN's Joe Schad is reporting that Mangino allegedly yelled at and made contact with a player earlier this season. So when KU was 5-0 and ranked 16th in the nation it was OK. Lose five in a row and it's time to start the investigation.

So Mangino's KU career appears to be over. What will they do with all of those "Our Coach is Phat" T-shirts?