Mark Mangino “resigned” yesterday in disgrace, having been throw out by Kansas officials after players came forward with tales of physical and verbal abuse.
(Hear Kipp talk about Mangino here)
Until this week, players had not provided physical evidence of Mangino’s behavior. That changed two days ago, when the LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD published the story of former Kansas starting nose tackle Cory Kipp.
Kipp, who started 13 games for Kansas in 2003, claims Mangino caused the second degree burns you see on his hand in the photo.
At the beginning of an afternoon workout in August of ’03, Mangino told Kipp to see him after practice to undergo punishment for the player’s failure to weigh-in earlier that day.
Kipp figured the punishment would be running “cross-fields” — something he and another former player said was a typical penalty for such an infraction — but was instead told to “bear-crawl” across the AstroTurf field at Memorial Stadium on his hands and feet.
Kipp began the crawl and, after moving several yards, felt a burning sensation in his hands. On multiple occasions, Kipp said, he stopped to complain that the turf was burning his hands — according to a University of Arkansas report, artificial playing surfaces have been documented at up to 199 degrees in temperature — but was ordered by Mangino, who was walking alongside the crawling player, to keep going.
By the time Kipp had finished, the skin near the heel of his hand had been completely seared, and photos provided to the Journal-World depict blistering and a sizable area of missing skin.
As a result of the injury, Kipp said, he was forced to undergo extensive treatment on his hand by then-head football trainer Carol Jarosky throughout the next three weeks, and although he said at least two members of the coaching staff were aware of the injury, he was told to practice through it.
“It wasn’t like because my hand was burned, I took a couple days off,” Kipp said. “They made me practice.”
A college football source with knowledge of the program told me today that Kipp’s revelation did have an impact on fast-tracking Mangino’s buyout negotiations with the school. I reported on Nov. 20 that reps for Mangino were already in discussions with school officials about a buyout.
I’d previously heard from a college football source that Oklahoma was seriously considering hiring Mangino back on its staff if he departed the Kansas football program. (Mangino left OU as offensive coordinator take the KU job.) But after Kipp’s revelation, that possibility may have diminished.
Mangino’s next employment could depend on how big Kipp’s story gets. Kipp’s claim - and evidence - certainly won’t help Mangino in his search.
10:48 am on December 4th, 2009
Magino is a piece of crap. He needs to be kept away from coaching young men. He makes Bobby Knight look like a player’s coach.
10:56 am on December 4th, 2009
He has an owie on his hand!!! Nooooooooo! The world has become a bunch of pansies.
11:17 am on December 4th, 2009
i don’t know about you, but that looks like more then just an “owie on his hand”. Have you ever gotten a blister on your ankles or hands or anything? Now imagine having that forced upon you 10 fold.
that looks pretty ugly, you are a retard.
11:24 am on December 4th, 2009
I thought bear crawls you pick your hands up, don’t slide across the ground. The kid was late, it was his own fault for doing the drill wrong!
11:30 am on December 4th, 2009
Every High School and College Football program across America uses the “bear crawl” as punishment. So he got a blister, And they made him practice?!?!? Big deal, this dude is a total wuss.
11:33 am on December 4th, 2009
Fine I am retarded, but it still looks like an owie. And to answer your question, no I have never had a blister on my ankles or hands or anything, I have minions to do all my physical labor.
11:38 am on December 4th, 2009
Second degree burns are not blisters!!!
12:22 pm on December 4th, 2009
I agree with CL and Altera. Bear crawls have a gallopping motion to them, not a plowing motion where your hands never leave the surface.
Secondly, Astroturf gets to be 199 degrees, Fieldturf does not. It was one of the many reasons why everyone switched to it.
I’ve gotten worst blisters working in the backyard with an Ax and Shovel. (see 7 iron and pitching wedge)
This guy was a nosetakle? No wonder why they went 6-7 and had one of the worst scoring defenses in the country.
12:30 pm on December 4th, 2009
A good coach is not going to put you in situations that will take away from your physical performance, which this most certainly would, not to mention the risk of infection.
12:33 pm on December 4th, 2009
Kansas won 3 bowls game under Mangini. During the previous 101 years of football at Kansas, they had won 3 bowl games…
1:09 pm on December 4th, 2009
I remember the bear crawl playing football at Manti High School, but the coach called them mountain climbers. In any case, that’s a lame argument. College football at the I-A level is becoming increasingly gay. Sorry to offend the fags out there. Oh wait, no I’m not.
1:18 pm on December 4th, 2009
Yeah, Kansas was very successful under Mangini, that’s what makes me think there must be a lot going on for Kansas to “fire” him. Am I supposed to think that KU is risking millions of dollars based on a few football players with their panties in a twist?
1:29 pm on December 4th, 2009
omg a blister from bear crawling.
still tho, as dude above said kansas football has never been shit without fatgino. there must be some untold incidents past “blistergate” here that got him canned.
2:17 pm on December 4th, 2009
BradJamesBroncoFan:
Freud called. He said stop being latently homosexual.
6:22 pm on December 4th, 2009
I don’t believe the kid’s story - but only that bit about Mangino “walking alongside the crawling player…”
5:08 pm on December 6th, 2009
Mangino resigned because he developed stigmata?
12:30 am on December 7th, 2009
Fatgino just got hungry and bit a small chunk out of his hand for punishment, he’s lucky he got away with that much of his hand intact! Oh well, the “hot seat” sure is happy Fatgino got fired, he was getting really tired of the big fat slob sitting on him!
10:40 am on December 7th, 2009
The kid missed a weigh in. Anyone else see the irony in this? Magino ate several other coaches during his tenure at Kansas….
10:59 am on December 7th, 2009
The guy is lying big time. The wound is the result of a drunken fall where he was still able to put his hand out before his puss met the pavement. After the next beer it was faceplant cit.
7:22 pm on December 7th, 2009
How can this fat piece of crap be a role model to yong men? He disgusting. I don’t care what he knows about football he knows nothing about physical appearence.
7:22 pm on December 7th, 2009
How can this fat piece of crap be a role model to young men? He’s disgusting. I don’t care what he knows about football he knows nothing about physical appearence.
10:55 pm on December 7th, 2009
The guy took a picture of his hand from 2003 and saved it for this moment? I doubt it.
12:03 pm on December 8th, 2009
Looks like a blister from whacking off.
1:50 pm on December 8th, 2009
Do you think the guys yelling that this player is a ‘fag’ and ‘gay’ may have a problem with their own sex identity??
The player may or may not be a bit weak, but guys that start screaming things like that make me wonder . . .
Oh, and don’t bother, I know that this comment is ‘gay’ and that I must be a ‘fag’.
Back to your trailers, boys, the Jack Daniels is waiting . .
8:33 pm on January 27th, 2010
this is actually a great thing he did, because it prooved to everyone how abusive this coach really was in the past and in the present after Mangino had lied to everyone that he never did those things to his players and that their parents and them only wanted 15 minates of fame! Kipp showed everyone that Mangino was lieing the whole entire time to everybody on his interview about these matters of abuse to his past and present players. If this happend to you and you found out your former head coach was still treateing his players very abusivly both physicaly and mentaly as he did you, youd do the samething!
those of who you said you played football? well you must have played for some sorry Div 3 football team with a looseing record for a coach that didnt care if his team lost or won, because you obvisly dont know much about the damage Mangino has done to his players and to the program! think about it, HS recruits are going to choose not to come to KU to play because of what Mangino has done!!!