Kansas pays Mangino $3 million to go away … quietly

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Don’t expect to hear Mark Mangino bad mouth the University of Kansas any time soon. Part of Kansas’ $3 million settlement to the now former football coach went to buying his silence.

Mangino and the university agreed to play nice and “not disparage one another, or officials or employees or agents,” blah, blah, blah. You get the idea.

The $3 million is about a third of the $9.2 million that Mangino’s four-year contract would have paid him.

By cutting the deal, Mangino also keeps quiet the results of the university’s internal investigation of his treatment of his players. Kansas agreed to lock up the results as well as the letter of termination

that was dated December 3 and “talking points” as personnel records and

destroy every other copy of the documents.

Only a court order could force the sealed documents to go public.

After the jump, more details and read the full settlement.