Leipold is already almost 60, so he isn’t a young up and comer.

I think there’s a good chance that this is his last stop.

We are under 2 months away from the exhibition game against Pitt State.

A little under a month and half away from Late Night.

I was there for the 2008-2009 Late Night. Seeing the banner be revealed is incredible in person. If you can go this year, I highly recommend it.

yeah I was completely confused by his firing and tbh still kind of am. I was a student at the time so I was thinking well maybe we'll be okay and I remember having conversations at parties about Turner Gill "still being able to turn it around this season" lol

Going to the Fatgino era games was fun but my fiancee was always afraid he was going to just keel over on the sidelines so I always had to reassure her that he probably wouldn't die during a home game

There were a lot of rumors floating around about trouble that Mangino had caused around campus and Lawrence in general.

I remember hearing he went to a cigar shop and demanded to get them for free. He threw a fit and had to be hauled out. No idea if it’s true or not, but those stories were out there.

That’s just ridiculous. Silly

Meh, if that shit were true, it would have come out of the woodwork once they fired him.

Mangino was an abrasive asshole no doubt.

how dang early would you need to get there to get in this year? I'm over an hour away, so would hate to drive down and not get in.

I was in Lawrence at the time that all happened re Mangino and all of it honestly just felt like a massive smear campaign meant to justify what was otherwise a ridiculous football decision because some powerful people didn't like him.

That’s pretty much where I was going. As soon as they were about to fire him, all of these terrible stories started coming out.

I always though the accusations from the players were oddly timed as well.

Yup, still baffling what they did to him.

I used to think that, but he never caught on anywhere. I mean, STEVE ****ING SARKESIAN and LANE TWAT WAFFLE KIFFIN are still getting jobs. If a guy can win at Kansas of all places, he'd get a better look than an OC at Iowa State.

I figure there was some insider smoke there. Maybe it's bullshit spread KU big wheels, but I'd think if it was bullshit, someone would have figured it out and given him a shot.

That's 100% speculation, and I may be way off, but that's the way I see it.

He got kicked out of his son's high school game the guy was absolutely an asshole. He got fired for abuse around the same time Leavitt/Leach also got fired. He also lost 7 in a row that last season because teams adjusted to the spread. He would have been done regardless.

I’ve heard the same thing about Matt Campbell for the last five years. They call, he stays.

It's true that boosters didn't like him, especially powerful ones which I won't name.

But I never heard that about the cigars, it was that he was slapping players in the face in practices.

The guy is cut from the same mold as Todd Haley which shouldn't really surprise anyone considering they're from the same area.

Yeah, that was pretty obvious.

Talk about a backfire. Idiots.