One of the more enjoyable stories of the 2007 season was the enormous rise of Kansas football, thanks in no small part to enormous coach Mark Mangino. And as the wins kept coming in Lawrence, shirts celebrating the grand girth of the KU coach kept selling. You’ve probably seen or at least heard of the some of the fat-focused fashions, such as “Our Coach Beat Anorexia” or “Our Coach Can Eat Your Coach“.

Sure, such shirt slogans may be all in good fun, but as Jeff Flanagan of the KANSAS CITY STAR discovers, some Jayhawks aren’t enjoying the fat jokes. Read more…