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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Because you folks did a hatchet job unlike anything I've ever seen. Kansas and Lew Perkins did absolutely everything they could to make the man as toxic as possible so they could save face and a few bucks in the settlement discussions.
As far as major Universities with major donors and public exposure are concerned, perception is reality. The guy has been excoriated publicly, it will take a few years for that stain to wear off him and he becomes hireable again (hell, look at Leach).
If Mangino were truly this slovenly demon you Beakers tried to paint him as, you probably could've shoved him out the door and not given him a dime; termination for cause. As it is, you gave him a nice little settlement...then proceeded to trash an empty chair after he left.
It was horseshit. Keep on defending it, you only make yourself look worse.
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You folks? I remember a large amount of KU fans that were absolutely stunned and embarrassed the way that Lew ran him out of town. At the same time, the Lawrence people (me being one of them) were not sad to see the guy go. He was a class A asshole. There were people working in the football dept that were celebrating his departure, he was that type of person. He made very few friends there with the way he treated people. That had more to do with the lack of booster support he received than anything.
The worst railroading he got was from the local Media. They had it out for him and kept banging their drum throughout the entire process. KU football's worst enemy has been the LJW sports media for a long time. They have personal agendas and biases running very deep, and Mangino treated them extremely poorly. Having the biggest Talk Sports Radio Host (KK) in the nearest metro hating your collective guts and using his show as a personal soap box for all things anti-KU doesn't help either. But in the end, it was handled poorly, yes. It was horrible, and Lew deserved plenty of criticism for this. But Mangino did himself no favors. Had he established relationships locally, he wouldn't have been run out of town so quickly cause people would have defended him. He made his own bed, however.