Does Pitt make a run at Mangina if ku has a good season??

[sonofdaxjones]

Note to visiting and resident squawktards.   Please read and UNDERSTAND the question.   The question is NOT will Mangina want to go to Pitt; and no dissertations about how Mangina wouldn't even consider it because of blah, blah, blah.

It's a simple question, so relax your anal tachometers.

[WildWillie21]

He's from that area, correct?


I could see someone doing it if they got passed the image deal. And I have a hard time believing he'd want to stay in Lawrence if a better job wanted him.

[fatty fat fat]

No, keep praying.

[sonofdaxjones]

No, keep praying.

I saw your first response Mr. meanyoungperson.   

[Saulbadguy]

No, he's too fat.

[Lynch]

"Lawrence Kansas is in the middle of now where, no one wanted to go there."

He will leave.

[fatty fat fat]

No, he's too fat.

qft

[SuperSoulFighter]

Mangino will be looking for a new job because of the way he's been treated in Lawrence.  He doesn't mesh with Sweet Lew and it's not a secret.  The only way he stays is if he does crappy enough not to get another head job at a BCS school.

It could be Pittsburgh, but it could just as easily be anywhere else.  He never coached on the college level when he was around there, so I doubt he has many ties still around.

Didn't Mike Gottfried leave ku for Pittsburgh?

[steve dave]

Nobody is going to pay Mangino what he gets paid now.  Pitt will look at his salary and do one of these 

[sonofdaxjones]

Pitt could afford to pay that salary, but I don't think he has a track record good enough to warrant a school paying that much.

[catzacker]

Pitt might, but I don't Mangino would go to Pitt.  Mangino's team (should they not do what they typically have done in years past, which I suspect they won't) sets up to have a nice year this year and they practically return everyone next year.  Maybe after next year.  But I doubt it.  This is kind of funny, I'm sure ku fans (and others) were saying/praying for the same thing about Snyder, circa 1994,1995.  My god how we've fallen.  What's turning into an obsession about ku is going to kill this program.

[chum1]

Why the hell would Mangino want to go to Pitt?

[sonofdaxjones]

Well contrary to what you might think, I don't pray that the guy leaves, because the next guy may be better.  

Football isn't like basketball, you don't have near the corruption, backdoor dealings, player funneling BS in football recruiting as you do in basketball recruiting.  So that translates into allowing a school who actually tries to be good in football, that can bring in a decent coach being able to compete and likely do fairly well.   ku couldn't afford to continue to suck at football, because football is king financially and in the Big 12. So I didn't live under any delusion that KSU would keep beating ku 64-0 forever . . . and . . .That's why I laugh at ku people who think that now that they've had some success against KSU, that KSU will just dry up and blow away.

chum . . . please read the entirety of the original post, thank you.

[SuperSoulFighter]

Why the hell would Mangino want to go to Pitt?

Because it's not a basketball school. 
Because the AD isn't searching for reasons to fire him.
Because his current program is on probation.

[SuperSoulFighter]

Not to mention that his schedule at ku includes OU and Texas for the next two years.  Now is the time for him to have a big season and get out if he wants to keep his career going.

[chum1]

chum . . . please read the entirety of the original post, thank you.

Thought that was only meant for KsqUaks.  MY.  BAD.

[Legore]

Well contrary to what you might think, I don't pray that the guy leaves, because the next guy may be better.  

Football isn't like basketball, you don't have near the corruption, backdoor dealings, player funneling BS in football recruiting as you do in basketball recruiting.  So that translates into allowing a school who actually tries to be good in football, that can bring in a decent coach being able to compete and likely do fairly well.   ku couldn't afford to continue to suck at football, because football is king financially and in the Big 12. So I didn't live under any delusion that KSU would keep beating ku 64-0 forever . . . and . . .That's why I laugh at ku people who think that now that they've had some success against KSU, that KSU will just dry up and blow away.

chum . . . please read the entirety of the original post, thank you.

I agree with you 100% on this.  In this day and age most everyone is going to have good seasons here and there and most teams are probably going to have bad seasons at times.  The people that are acting like Mangino is some kind of miracle worker don't have much of a handle on the college football envirment these days.  The fact that ku was as bad as they were for as long as they were is the more remarkeable thing. 

With what coaches get paid and with the kind of facilities everyone has now it's going to be hard to suck year after year.   We beat Texas by 20 points on the road and then lost to ku at home the next week.  Nebraska is probably 5th in the division this year after sweeping everyone and winning it by a couple of games last year.  Swings like that didn't used to happen back in the day but things have changed. 

MU probably wins the North the next couple of years with their talent cycle but I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see them fall back down in the bottom half again for a year or two after that.  Teams running off 25 wins in a row or even 10 in a row against conference opponents I just don't think we'll see that kind of stuff happen much anymore.  USC lost to freaking Stanford at home last week.   

[LynchMob2007]

I certainly wouldn't want to take the risk of hiring a coach that could die at any moment.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Would his daughter be as happy that he got another head job?

[KSUTOMMY]

Not to mention that his schedule at ku includes OU and Texas for the next two years.  Now is the time for him to have a big season and get out if he wants to keep his career going.

This is a great thread - THIS would make the most sense, wouldn't it? It is kind of a "get out of New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina" or in this case Hurricane Big 12 south... Yeah, maybe Pitt will offer, or maybe the PA Turnpike Authority Intermural Squad (if there is one) as that is where the Fat man was "discovered" by Bill Snyder.

[willie83]

Didn't he already call a press conference to take his name out of consideration? I think he also threw in he will not consider the USC and Notre Dame jobs.

[Jayhoxx]

No they won't, because Mangino just announced that he has removed his name from consideration.  So did Mark Turgeon.