MARK MANGINO FEELS THE BURN (OF HIS PLAYERS' CHARRED FLESH)
by Holly Anderson on Dec 2, 2009 1:09 PM EST
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To absolutely everyone's utter shock, further Mark-Mangino-is-a-crazypants-tyrant details are emerging, and this time there's a name attached: Former starting nose tackle Cory Kipp is alleging he suffered second-degree burns while being punished for missing a weigh-in:
Kipp, a defensive lineman under Mangino in 2002 and ’03, told the Journal-World this week that he endured significant injuries to his hand as a result of a punishment carried out by the coach — a claim backed up by multiple former players, as well as photos taken shortly after the incident.
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[Kipp] was instead told to "bear-crawl" across the AstroTurf field at Memorial Stadium on his hands and feet. On multiple occasions, Kipp said, he stopped to complain that the turf was burning his hands — according to a University of Arkansas report, artificial playing surfaces have been documented at up to 199 degrees in temperature — but was ordered by Mangino, who was walking alongside the crawling player, to keep going.
In responding to these accusations, Mangino replied that he was simply trying to make Kipp stronger than his relatives who died in the Great Chicago Fire. Further gory details can be perused at KUSports.com.
[Image via @petegaines.]
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I would say this is the nail in Mangino’s coffin, but I don’t thinks there’s a box big enough for that sucker.
by esteban on Dec 2, 2009 1:15 PM EST reply actions
Easy answer? Don’t miss the weigh-in.
/old school’d
by Domer Guy on Dec 2, 2009 1:18 PM EST reply actions
That Mangino is nothing but an exercise in basic geometry … one big sphere is his body and a little sphere on top is his head.
I hate Top Gun and the homoerotic shower scenes.
by DHC on Dec 2, 2009 1:20 PM EST reply actions
I agree with Domer Guy. How can you be that irresponsible, to miss a weigh-in, and not expect that at the very least your flesh will be burned off your extremities.
by Tanner on Dec 2, 2009 1:23 PM EST reply actions
for anyone that doesnt remember, Top Gun was a movie about a men’s beach volleyball team stood around and high-fived for an hour and a half
by beckett929 on Dec 2, 2009 1:24 PM EST reply actions
man, if this shit keeps up Nike will be showing off their new line of frilly panties for men any fucking day
take your casual crab-walk over hot coals like a man I say!!!
by WarChiziken on Dec 2, 2009 1:24 PM EST reply actions
I’m all for the bear crawl. He should given him some gloves.
And come on, you know weigh ins occupy a special place for Mangino.
by ohiodawg on Dec 2, 2009 1:29 PM EST reply actions
Bunch of Nancy Boys Dept:
I’ll side with Mangino on this one.
If the player had a legitimate excuse he should have been man enough to stop the “abuse” right there.
Crying foul later just makes him look like a real (insert favorite insult here). I’m glad he was on all fours crying like a hyena.
Today’s players are a bunch of coddled, spoiled brats, many of which become spoiled, coddled bratty coaches. (Kiffin, Mike Gundy, Les Miles, etc., etc. )
Plus, if Mangino is gone, think of all of the jokes that will go with him too.
Sheeeesh, we need more original thinkers out here, and not a bunch of “me too”, politically correct, nancy boys.
by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Dec 2, 2009 1:32 PM EST reply actions
Doesn’t cooked human flesh smell like pork? Guy’s lucky to have his hands at all.
by JoeDawg on Dec 2, 2009 1:34 PM EST reply actions
Glenngarry Glen Ross Dept:
If Mangino is fired, he ought to go to the tailor and get for himself a fitted, blue suit, then go around like the Alec Baldwin character and give “scared straight” speeches throughout the college footbaw world to under-achieving teams. (I do not think Macy’s sells suits in his size.)
by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Dec 2, 2009 1:37 PM EST reply actions
I think this is both disrespectful AND classless.
by Tim James on Dec 2, 2009 1:46 PM EST reply actions
This story reminds me of the cop that killed some old man by forcing him to lay down on the hot alsphalt in a parking lot while restrained. Probably only got put on administrative leave — just make Mangino skip a meal or something!
But the real lesson here is that artificial turf is lame.
by Tim James on Dec 2, 2009 1:56 PM EST reply actions
Must not be an LSUFreek production…if it was, the picture landing in the water would have caused a massive ocean geyser.
by spartymike on Dec 2, 2009 2:17 PM EST reply actions
One day — maybe sooner, maybe later, but some day — a player is going to look at his coach, realize the only thing standing between him and his coach is an aura of authority, think “Fuck Authority”, and pummel his coach.
by allaha on Dec 2, 2009 2:22 PM EST reply actions
@allaha: You couldn’t pummel Mangino though, it’d be like punching a vat of oatmeal.
by NU Wildcat Offense on Dec 2, 2009 2:27 PM EST reply actions
@18,
See Sprewell, Latrell.
Part of me, however, feels that five years of Paul Johnson or Mangino is just what Kevin Nelson needs.
by Shpip on Dec 2, 2009 2:29 PM EST reply actions
“After pointing out a tackle that Kipp had missed during the previous week’s game, Mangino allegedly threatened to burn the player’s other hand if he ever missed a tackle again.”
epic.
by ed on Dec 2, 2009 2:38 PM EST reply actions
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It is also “a slap in the face.” That works as a code phrase too.
by JD on Dec 2, 2009 2:56 PM EST reply actions
@1 Sure there is. How about the box that aircraft carrier came in?
BTW, stupid movie. Goose was the only decent character.
Sullivan013
by sullivan013 on Dec 2, 2009 2:59 PM EST reply actions
First we were dazzled by his near perfect rotundness.
But now we know there is so much more awesomeness; like Krakatoa.
by blazin on Dec 2, 2009 3:03 PM EST reply actions
“You fly jets long enough, and something like this is going to happen.” — Viper
@18, Agreed. How far would Mangino roll if a lineman-sized dude punched him in the throat? I’d pay to see it.
by PDXgonegator on Dec 2, 2009 3:07 PM EST reply actions
You know, with that little leg kick Cruise kinda throws like a right handed Tebow…
by CrimsonBarister on Dec 2, 2009 3:18 PM EST reply actions
You know, with that little leg kick Cruise kinda throws like a right handed Tebow…
by CrimsonBarrister on Dec 2, 2009 3:19 PM EST reply actions
Should have just made him bear crawl up The Hill instead. Not only would it be a far more badass punishment, but the natural grass would have been much cooler, and therefore wouldn’t leave permanent damage. What an idiot.
Now I get to sit around and wonder about how many other players in the past were held back by injuries caused by our dumbass Bobby Knight-wannabe’s punishment techniques, and how that might have affected our close losses the last couple of years. Fantastic.
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Dec 2, 2009 3:34 PM EST reply actions
Son I just burned one of your hands. Now if you miss another tackle I’ll burn the other one.
Genius coaching right there. Does he kneecap WRs who drop passes as well?
by Dan on Dec 2, 2009 3:58 PM EST reply actions
Just confirmed: Martinez, Jancek, and Fabris out at Georgia. (David Hale’s got the brief press release over on http://ugadogsblog.blogspot.com/ .)
by Blog Goliard on Dec 2, 2009 4:02 PM EST reply actions
PDXgonegator—
Good luck with that— that throat is protected by 75 pounds of chins.
by PW on Dec 2, 2009 4:05 PM EST reply actions
best comment at the original article: “and he can’t even manage the clock!” FTW
by chest rockwell on Dec 2, 2009 4:27 PM EST reply actions
From five-hour practices on Astroturf (that’s Astroturf for real men, not the FieldTurf stuff the nancies of kids these days are playing on now) in July in beautiful Missouri, I can tell you for a fact that the green plastic can get absolutely blazing hot. No complaining though, you wusses.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Dec 2, 2009 4:38 PM EST reply actions
HIJACK
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/gallery/featured/GAL1161899/3/19/index.htm
of course he has the pipe, of course he does.
by rjgator on Dec 2, 2009 4:40 PM EST reply actions
Pussies. Mangino took my 9 month labor of love. I didn’t cry a/b some flesh wounds, feelings or need for respect. . . but that was b/c we had just beaten UTEP 34-7. Everything has a price.
by Mangino_ate_my_baby on Dec 2, 2009 5:40 PM EST reply actions
Any chance we can get a line of Magino-related Christmas cards from EDSBS this season??
by Jason on Dec 2, 2009 7:18 PM EST reply actions
With incidents like this, does anyone have this feeling that most football teams are like philharmonics being conducted by Sid Vicious?
by MCab on Dec 3, 2009 12:48 AM EST reply actions
Thanks a lot. You made me hunt the Jennifer Warren-sung theme song to that flick, dangit!
by Wright on Dec 3, 2009 1:12 AM EST reply actions
@ 20—You can’t apply the Sprewell approach to Mangino’s no-neck-having ass if you’re going to choke him…..seeing as how he should already be choking on his own fat by now.
by Super C on Dec 3, 2009 1:41 AM EST reply actions
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