uk fans are too dumb to fire the fat man

[Pike]

Seriously they are. I've been reading some kusports.com today and I talked to my Dad (ku alum) about it. Here's the two opinions I've picked up on by lurking today:

1. The younger dudes. They are all calling for his head. They are aware that Mangino has overachieved every year except the obvious 07. The realize 07 was a fluke and is likely not going to happen again and especially under Mangino. They realize that Mangino is a pretty terrible in game coach, and Sparkles has been able to mask that for the last few years.

2. The older more traditional ku basketball fan that may or may not have had season tickets for a long time. This is the group my Dad is in. This group still "believes" and they always are quick to remind you "where we came from" and "we won the Orange bowl". For those two facts alone they would never fire Mangino ever.

I think opinion #2 wins the battle over Manginos job. These people are alumni and have all the money and I think there are more of them. And whether his job really is seriously in jeapordy idk, but Lew hates 'gina so who knows. But what if Mangino has a total crap season in '10? Then will the #2s jump on the #1 bandwagon. I guess we wait and see

[feralchat]

WTF is it about ku fans and the Orange Bowl?
Seriously, they carry on like it's the Superbowl or every college football teams' goal to go to the fracking Orange Bowl.
When one going on about it this week, I ask him who won the Orange Bowl this year. Of course, he didn't know.
Nice win, but in the big picture pretty much meaningless and, as we've seen, certainly not a program builder.

[Super PurpleCat]

Well obviously the only choice they have is the Fatman or Terry Allen.

[Pike]

Well obviously the only choice they have is the Fatman or Terry Allen.

No they could seriously hire a decent coach. Sure Mangino brought them out of the gutter, but they haven't really gone anywhere outside of a complete fluke in '07. Mangino is a decent coach himself but if he can't win the north this year like they were supposed to, then he probably never will

[Dirty Sanchez]

WTF is it about ku fans and the Orange Bowl?
Seriously, they carry on like it's the Superbowl or every college football teams' goal to go to the fracking Orange Bowl.
When one going on about it this week, I ask him who won the Orange Bowl this year. Of course, he didn't know.
Nice win, but in the big picture pretty much meaningless and, as we've seen, certainly not a program builder.

They still don't realize that they were one of the worst bcs teams ever playing one of the other worst bcs teams ever.  And they didn't even belong there (misery did because they won the north).  Must be one of the biggest mass delusions in the history of sports thinking that the blue giant is anything more than a got lucky to be in the right place at the right time guy.

[Pike]

Mass delusion indeed

I just read this post http://boards.kusports.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1552252&an=0&page=0#1552252

It's about "Top College Football Coaches" and there are actually people in that thread surprised that Mangino is not listed

[CatMission]

WTF is it about ku fans and the Orange Bowl?
Seriously, they carry on like it's the Superbowl or every college football teams' goal to go to the fracking Orange Bowl.
When one going on about it this week, I ask him who won the Orange Bowl this year. Of course, he didn't know.
Nice win, but in the big picture pretty much meaningless and, as we've seen, certainly not a program builder.

This obsession with OB (Orange Bowl, not Old Balls, although they are obsessed here as well) is hysterical.  A uk alum who works for me actually told me that the OB win was more of an accomplishment than any win K-State had ever had.

I then asked him if winning the B12 North was must be unimportant and B12CG was inconsequential, even when playing #1 in the country and in the history of football?

He reacted thusly 

I then told him that I would have to review his employment, because someone who would make such stupid statements was not someone I could justify actually paying a wage.

[GP76]

WTF is it about ku fans and the Orange Bowl?
Seriously, they carry on like it's the Superbowl or every college football teams' goal to go to the fracking Orange Bowl.
When one going on about it this week, I ask him who won the Orange Bowl this year. Of course, he didn't know.
Nice win, but in the big picture pretty much meaningless and, as we've seen, certainly not a program builder.

This obsession with OB (Orange Bowl, not Old Balls, although they are obsessed here as well) is hysterical.  A uk alum who works for me actually told me that the OB win was more of an accomplishment than any win K-State had ever had.

I then asked him if winning the B12 North was must be unimportant and B12CG was inconsequential, even when playing #1 in the country and in the history of football?

He reacted thusly 

I then told him that I would have to review his employment, because someone who would make such stupid statements was not someone I could justify actually paying a wage.

He forgot who was signing the checks he takes home