MM’s comments last night did nothing for his defense. How does a man making millions go on record with a prepared statement and blame his players? I was expecting him to man up and say, “this is my organization and this is what we are doing to prepare for Texas.” He sounded indignant and self-protecting. He’s the coach, even if kids are trying to get him fired, as the coach he has an obligation to protect the players and take the heat. He came across as a pussy.
I stand corrected on the Nebraska performance. The Cornhuskers really played well in the fourth and caught some breaks. Todd got the ball out on time most of the game and the play of and changes to the O-line were beautiful. I’m looking forward to seeing Reesing and the rest of the Texas natives play Saturday. Hope to see you all at the game. At least it’s a short walk to 6th St.

He’ll be lucky if Mangino doesn’t try to find some sort of tort claim against him and bleed KU of an extra million or two. This was a gamble on Perkins part. From what I’ve read, none of these kids have enough ammunition to give you “cause” that will uphold under even a mediocre cross-examination. You proved it yourself. And the paper trail is just a basic “cover your ass” tactic.

“He took the opportunity to usethat [seriously flimsy shit], Arist Wright, and a few other guys as his excuse to run the Big Man out of town.”

“Especially with how many former players have come forward. And yet, he can conduct an investigation – play like he’s an innocent bystander”

No, he can’t. In fact, I think his tactic is an aggressive move to get an arrogant, stubborn jackass to take a buyout and move on.

Here’s the major, and I mean MAJOR hole, in the “evil genius” thinking. At some point, it’s going to get out that Perkins knew about this behavior before and/or during the 2007 Orange Bowl season. Because it’s a statistical certainty that Perkins knew and just was waiting for a better window. Let’s face it, Mangino didn’t turn into this asshole overnight. This is exactly who he’s been from the beginning. Once that hits the fan, the “innocent bystander” approach will fail. Perkins will become an opportunistic prick and that will be that.

KU does not want this to go to a court, because anyone with half a brain knows they’d get skullfucked. They’re maneuvering Mangino into a position where he either takes the full buyout or he drives the team, and his career, into an irrecoverable oblivion.

Also, I thought we were just as inspired against Iowa State as anyone else, despite a poor defensive showing. And I definitely thought we played our asses off against Nebraska – just made some costly mistakes when it counted.

On Sept 25th (?) before the Southern Miss, when investigating the basketball/football fight Lew was quoted, “I’m 64 years old, and I’ve been doing this over 40 years. I can honestly say that I was about as mad as I’ve been in a long time.” He went on for 10 minutes about anger and disappointment and ongoing internal investigations. It seems to a distant observer this was last time a KU played inspired football.

I got to the OU game and no one seemed interested, prepared or focused. It looks like Lew learned something from KSU about how to fire a coach.