Ex-players, parents tell-all about Mark Mangino

This is what happens during a disappointing, losing season. The Kansas Jayhawks have lost five games in a row and with Saturday’s game against No. 2 Texas in Austin looming, looks like loss No. 6 isn’t far away.

So the chorus calling for Kansas football coach Mark Mangino‘s head is getting louder as the losses mount.

No one was speaking out when Mangino led the Jayhawks to an Orange Bowl, a school-best 12-1 record and received National Coach of the Year honors. That’s not to discount what’s going on with Mangino because, as my buddy Jason Whitlock wrote today, Mangino is a bully.

But with the latest allegations of verbal and emotional abuse, comes names.

ESPN cites several former players, including former receiver Raymond Brown, who referenced a rather low blow from Mangino.

[Brown] said that once, his younger brother had been shot in the arm in St. Louis. Then came a game.

“I dropped a pass and [Mangino] was mad,” Brown said. “And I said,

‘Yes, sir. Yes, sir.’ The yelling didn’t bother me. But then he said,

‘Shut up!’ He said, ‘If you don’t shut up, I’m going to send you back

to St. Louis so you can get shot with your homies.’ I was irate. I

wanted to hurt him to be honest with you.”