Mark Mangino

Mark Mangino

Mark "get in my belly" Mangino (born August 26, 1956 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is an American football coach. He was most recently the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks college football team from 2002 to 2009. In 2007, Mangino received several National Coach of the Year honors after leading the Jayhawks to their first 12-win season in school history. Prior to coaching the Jayhawks, Mangino served assistant positions at Kansas State and Oklahoma. On December 3, 2009 Mangino and the Jayhawks agreed on a settlement in which he resigned from his position as head coach.

Early life

Mangino was born and raised in New Castle, Pennsylvania. After high school, he was offered a football scholarship at Youngstown State. Mangino never played a down and dropped out after one year. Mangino played semi-pro baseball in western Pennsylvania until he became an ambulance driver. In his late 20's he returned to Youngstown State to receive his degree.

Coaching career

Early positions

Mangino graduated from Youngstown State University in 1987, serving as an assistant coach there in his last two years under then-head coach Jim Tressel. He also coached at Lincoln High School in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania and Geneva College, before being hired as an assistant coach at Kansas State University in 1991. Prior to the 1999 season, Mangino left Kansas State to take an assistant position at the University of Oklahoma. While there, he served as the offensive coordinator for the team that beat Florida State for the 2000 national championship. Following that season, he was awarded the Frank Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach.

Kansas

Mangino was hired to his current position in December 2001. With 50 victories, Mangino has the second-most victories in Kansas coaching history. In 2003, his second season at KU, Mangino led the Jayhawks to an appearance in the 2003 Tangerine Bowl (now known as the Champs Sports Bowl). This was the first bowl appearance for Kansas since 1995. In 2005, his fourth season at KU, the team finished the regular season 6–5, to post its first winning record under Mangino, and went on to the Fort Worth Bowl, its second bowl game in three seasons. Among the Jayhawks' wins was a 40-15 victory over Nebraska, breaking a losing streak that had begun in 1969, which was the second-longest such streak of consecutive losses in NCAA history. The same year Mangino also built a defense that ranked 11th nationally (based on yards allowed per game) and featured third-team All-American and Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year linebacker Nick Reid. The 2005 team also ranked 6th nationally in total punts. In 2007, Mangino coached the Jayhawks to a 12-1 record and the 2008 Orange Bowl (their first ever BCS appearance). Mangino's defense was ranked 12th in the nation, and 4th in scoring defense. On the other side of the ball, the Jayhawks finished 2nd in scoring offense.

Following the win against the Iowa State Cyclones, Mark Mangino became the first KU football coach with a winning career record since Jack Mitchell in 1966. Under Mangino, the Jayhawks won three Bowl games—the same number they had won in their 102-year history prior to his arrival.

2007 Coach of the Year awards

For his accomplishments in 2007, he was named the 2007 National Coach of the Year by the Associated Press, ESPN/ABC, The Sporting News, Football Writers Association, Walter Camp Football Foundation, National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, American Football Coaches Association, the Maxwell Football Club (George Munger Award), and he has been named the Woody Hayes National Coach of the Year. He was named the Big 12 Coach of the Year by the Big 12 Coaches and Big 12 Co-Coach of the Year by the Associated Press. Upon winning these Coach of the Year awards, he became the only NCAA coach in history to win both the Frank Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach and all the major National Coach of the Year awards.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Coaches#	AP°
Kansas Jayhawks (Big 12 Conference) (2002–2009)
2002	Kansas	2–10	0–8	6th (North)		—	—
2003	Kansas	6–7	3–5	T–4th (North)	L Tangerine	—	—
2004	Kansas	4–7	2–6	T–5th (North)		—	—
2005	Kansas	7–5	3–5	5th (North)	W Fort Worth	—	—
2006	Kansas	6–6	3–5	4th (North)		—	—
2007	Kansas	12–1	7–1	T-1st (North)*	W Orange†	7	7
2008	Kansas	8–5	4–4	3rd (North)	W Insight	—	—
2009	Kansas	5–7	1–7	6th (North)		—	—
Kansas:		50–48	23–41	Sources:
Total:		50–48
National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth
†Indicates Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance, BCS, or CFP / New Years' Six bowl. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll. °Rankings from final AP Poll.

(*) Indicates a co-championship.

Note: While officially recognized as 2007 divisional co-champions by the Big 12, the Jayhawks lost the tie-breaker game to Missouri, giving the Tigers the championship game berth.

Record against conference opponents

As of November 29, 2009.

Team	Wins	Losses	Win Pct.
Baylor Bears	2	2	.500
Colorado Buffaloes	3	5	.375
Iowa State Cyclones	6	2	.750
Kansas State Wildcats	4	4	.500
Missouri Tigers	4	4	.500
Nebraska Cornhuskers	2	6	.250
Oklahoma Sooners	0	4	.000
Oklahoma State Cowboys	1	3	.250
Texas Longhorns	0	4	.000
Texas A&M Aggies	1	3	.250
Texas Tech Red Raiders	0	4	.000
Total	23	41	.359
vs. North	19	21	.475
vs. South	4	20	.167

Controversy

Lincoln High controversy

After going 1-9 in his first season as the head coach of Lincoln High in Ellwood City, PA, a group of parents went to the school board and demanded his firing because of his "language, and harsh approach to people". The board elected not to fire Mangino, but he left the school after only one year and did not complete the year as a teacher.

High school referee incident

On September 21, 2002, Coach Mangino yelled at the officiating crew assigned to the Lawrence High School–Olathe East football game in which Mangino's son, Tommy, was playing. Mangino apparently became angry after referees failed to call what he believed was a late hit on Tommy, the LHS quarterback.

LHS officials took undisclosed action against Mangino after the game for violating a Kansas High School rule barring abuse of game officials by coaches, players and fans.

2004 Kansas-Texas game

In 2004, Mangino paid a $5,000 fine for suggesting that officials acted with favoritism in a questionable offensive pass interference call that affected the outcome of a game against Texas. Mangino implied that money and a BCS berth for the Big 12 Conference influenced the officials to make a call in favor of Texas. He and athletic director Lew Perkins issued public apologies the day after the incident.

NCAA penalties and probation

In 2005, the Jayhawks self-reported five NCAA major violations including academic fraud had been committed by members of the Jayhawk football program under Mark Mangino. In 2006, these major violations, along with four others from other sports contributed to the NCAA charging the Kansas University Athletics with "lack of institutional control". A graduate assistant was found to have supplied answers to correspondence courses being taken by potential athletes. As a result, the football team was limited for two years in its recruitment of junior college transfers, and lost two scholarships for each of the 2007 and 2008 seasons.

Internal Investigations

In November, 2009 Mangino's conduct toward his players became the subject of an internal investigation by the University of Kansas Athletic Department. The coach is accused of boorish and violent actions including grabbing players, verbal abuse, and other causes of concern. A separate investigation was conducted in 2007 related to the coach's repeated parking tickets on campus and his verbal abuse and general behavior toward some of the campus staff that issued those tickets.

Obesity

In a November 17, 2009 opinion column in The Kansas City Star, Jason Whitlock speculated that Mangino's obesity may have been affecting his job performance, his ability to earn the respect of his players, and his general attitude. Whitlock wrote this column in the aftermath of the announcement that Lew Perkins, the Athletic Director at KU, had launched an investigation involving Mangino's treatment of his players.

External links

• KU official bio
• NCAA Committee on Infractions Press Release