Mark Mangino is a still a fat guy with anger-management issues

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Former University of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino is talking for the first time since he was forced out of the job 17 months ago. In an interview with his hometown paper, the New Castle (Pennsylvania) News, Mangino refuses to his acknowledge that his inability to control his emotions may have played a role in his firing.

Mangino, for instance, blames the media for his becoming a YouTube sensation in 2007. During a game against Central Michigan, the coach tore into a player (“Look at what the fuck you did!”) who drew a celebration penalty. Mangino said the TV reporter who captured the tirade “broke an unwritten rule” by recording and releasing the audio. “That should never even have been an issue,” Mangino says.