Lew Perkins schedules Football Press Conference for 4 PM today.
Will he stay or will he go?
Edit: Looks like most stations are reporting no meeting scheduled. Definitely sounds like something is in the works but perhaps today is not the day.
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Hes gone.
And im hearing something that doesnt make me happy.
Phillip Fulmer.
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I've heard this multiple times as well.
I used to work with an old man that told me. Son, every workplace has a dumbass, if you don't have one where you work, then I'm afraid you're it.
yeah
Id love me some Harbaugh but hed head to Michigan at the drop of a hat.
What's wrong with Fulmer?
The guy has won a National Championship, for Chrissakes. He went 152-52 in the SEC! Also has some Kansas ties- coached at Wichita State for 5 years. Known as an excellent recruiter- got Peyton Manning to break away from his dad’s ties at Ole Miss- not too shabby.
There’s always the “stepping stone” issue, but he’s a Tennessee guy born and bred, and he won’t be getting a call from them any time soon.
RODD TEESING, my arch-nemesis! Give us back our TODD, you rapscallion!
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Dec 3, 2009 12:31 PM CST up reply actions
At this point
the only question is what it’s going to cost KU. My guess is somewhere around $2 million. Probably no more than $3 million.
Operation 40-0 is a go. Proceed to target.
By this, I mean
what they’re going to pay MM for not filing a grievance and prolonging the whole deal for another month or more.
Operation 40-0 is a go. Proceed to target.
Hear hear!
Oh wait. Dang.
Operation 40-0 is a go. Proceed to target.
by Bensa on Dec 3, 2009 12:01 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Cheer up Bensa.
In a few more years 10% of that buyout could be yours!
by hunter s. royal on Dec 3, 2009 12:06 PM CST up reply actions
Kusports.com
reporting no press conference has been scheduled.
Operation 40-0 is a go. Proceed to target.
Just conflicting reports
not uncommon in these things. We’ll find out soon enough, I suspect.
Operation 40-0 is a go. Proceed to target.
810 still reporting a press conference
at 4:00 today. For what that’s worth.
by hunter s. royal on Dec 3, 2009 12:05 PM CST up reply actions
Bukaty also does a ton of stuff with Jayhawks radio, I'm sure he has some significant sources.
I used to work with an old man that told me. Son, every workplace has a dumbass, if you don't have one where you work, then I'm afraid you're it.
agreed
He prolly just jumped the gun a little bit. I have heard numerous inside hints that something will happen today.
I like Bukaty
and he must have some good knowledge on this.
Operation 40-0 is a go. Proceed to target.
So...
We aren’t expecting the new coach to be announced at this presser, are we? Just simply that Mangino is toast?
RODD TEESING, my arch-nemesis! Give us back our TODD, you rapscallion!
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Dec 3, 2009 12:33 PM CST reply actions
hard to say
As long as this has taken, KU has had time to search, especially if it is indeed Fulmer.
But I would expect this to be more about the findings of the investigation and about the firing of Mangino.
Nothing would surprise me at this point.
I expect a press conference
stating only that Mark Mangino and the KAI have reached a deal to buyout the rest of his contract.
As such, Mark Mangino is no longer coach of the University of Kansas football team.
Sawin' wood - damn, blade just broke
I just read my paper today
And Jordan Rodgers is not coming on his visit. He didn’t state a reason why, but it probably has to do with Mangino. A couple of weeks ago when the allegations came out, he said he was still going. I’m thinking he knows something about the situation that we don’t; yet.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
tidbits
take it for what its worth.
Randy Edsall. UCONN
and we have an empty Mangino office and he is 6.6 million richer.
if thats true, i hope we retain most of our assistants,
because how else is he going to recruit Texas?
This would really make me question Lew
The guy has no Texas ties and for all I know has no ties to the area….He’s a good coach but it just seems like a dumb hire
I dont think its bad.
Young, successful, high energy guy.
Thats what i thought we would go with so the Fulmer idea surprised me.
I don't know
He’s 52….I guess that’s young?
Coaching record
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl Game Bowl Opponent Outcome Rank#
Connecticut Huskies (Atlantic Ten) (1999)
1999 Connecticut 4-7 3-5
Connecticut Huskies (I-A Independent) (2000–2003)
2000 Connecticut 3-8
2001 Connecticut 2-9
2002 Connecticut 6-6
2003 Connecticut 9-3
Connecticut Huskies (Big East) (2004–present)
2004 Connecticut 8-4 3-3 5 Motor City Bowl Toledo W 39-10
2005 Connecticut 5-6 2-5 6-T
2006 Connecticut 4-8 1-6 7-T
2007 Connecticut 9-4 5-2 1-T Meineke Car Care Bowl Wake Forest L 24-10
2008 Connecticut 8-5 3-4 5 International Bowl Buffalo W 38-20
2009 Connecticut 5-5 1-4
At Connecticut: 62-66 15-212
Total: 63-66
He’s from Pennsylvania. He’s been above .500 in conference ONCE since 2000.
Sounds like Mangino, actually. So how is this an improvement?
Sawin' wood - damn, blade just broke
Thanks for posting this
We’d be hiring a skinnier Mangino, record wise. With no midwestern or recruiting ties to texas.
We don’t need guys to turn around a nonexistant program, we need someone to help a middle tier program get more consistent and possibly take it to the next step
I'd question the hell out of Lew because Mangino is walking away 6.6 m richer!
I used to work with an old man that told me. Son, every workplace has a dumbass, if you don't have one where you work, then I'm afraid you're it.
press conference thoughts
If KU follows its normal protocol, it is too late in the day to now schedule a 4:00 p.m. press conference. Normally, any announcement this late in the day would be for scheduling a Friday morning press conference. If a press conference is not scheduled for tomorrow morning, then I do not believe there will be a press conference later in the day on Friday because it is my understanding that Lew Perkins is leaving for meetings in NY tomorrow.
Please note the above use of the terms “normal” and “normally”.
that just gives Lew a chance to be
conspicuously absent. Marchiony always does the dirty work anyway…
Me no likey Clint Bowen.
Questions
1. Wasn’t Briscoe supposed to announce his decision today? Or am I way off? Could he be delaying to see how this all plays out?
2. Edsall has gone through an extremely emotional year with the on-campus murder of one of his players. Dunno if anyone saw his interview after the win over ND, but he was crying and genuinely moved by the experience. Anybody else have a hard time believing he’ll bolt right after the season after going through that? Even if he wants to go on to a “bigger” job eventually, how could the timing be right this year?
RODD TEESING, my arch-nemesis! Give us back our TODD, you rapscallion!
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Dec 3, 2009 2:23 PM CST via mobile reply actions
I think point number 2 is a pretty solid one.
As far as Briscoe, yeah, he may be laying low for now, but in the end, I bet he goes.
great point.
Maybe Edsall is just at the top of their wish list.
I dunno.
Briscoe thing looks to be delayed for obvious reasons
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Also, I heard Notre Dame is interested in him...
…and as much as we all like to question how that program is considered “prime,” I’d be closer to the world he knows.
But then, that might be a bit too big of a slap in the face to UConn considering they beat them this year. I dunno.
I don't know, I like to think that things started out initially with good intentions, but then we just loused it up. Kind of like intelligence. We have this glorious thing that allowed us to survive for millenia and now we use it to write porn film plots involving pterodactyls. Talk about wasting the gift.
by tequilaprophet on Dec 3, 2009 2:57 PM CST up reply actions
Why schedule a press conference if you're firing him
why not just release a statement?
by I need more Esteban on Dec 3, 2009 2:35 PM CST reply actions
580AM is saying theres no press conference.
The guy on the air — Bruce Steinbrok — has connections rather high up in the KU Athletics department and has spoken with three seperate people, including one who would be directly involved in actually setting up the press conference, and there is NO PRESS CONFERENCE today.
thanks
good to have some real answers
by I need more Esteban on Dec 3, 2009 2:49 PM CST up reply actions
hahahaha
wow that is amazing, you make that?
by I need more Esteban on Dec 3, 2009 3:00 PM CST up reply actions
i like the one in the reply section with the huge splash.
more appropriate.
This one? With the Mangino-sized splash?
Me no likey Clint Bowen.
by labbadabba on Dec 3, 2009 3:36 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
that'd be the one.
rec’d.
I would have posted it if I knew how to.
FYI
GIFs can be posted just like any other picture. Just find the source website, copy, push the images button here on RCT, then paste. Preview to make sure it worked.
RODD TEESING, my arch-nemesis! Give us back our TODD, you rapscallion!
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Dec 3, 2009 4:46 PM CST up reply actions
If there isn't a press conference tomorrow, I am going to be very disappointed.
Can we please GET THIS OVER WITH!!!!
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!
Just hire someone. Hire me for all I care.
http://twinkietalk.com
http://thecollegehockeyblog.com
I can put together a mean defense...
I’m an incredible recruiter and the number one requirement is speed…
again this is on PS3 but I think my skillset will translate to real life
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
by Owen Kemp on Dec 3, 2009 4:14 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Sounds good
We can watch my O shred your D in practice every day, then head to 23rd St Brewary for some pub ships and cold beer
if
our offices are located at 23rd Street Brewery, then I would like to apply for some type of licensing job or media coordinator. Something cush.
I'm making you the linebacker's coach
Your job is too teach them how to play D1 linebacker and to get faster. Oh and you need to teach them to tackle while you are at it.
Get to work. Then you may have your beer and a pizza (their pizza is soooooo good)
not likely...
my defenses are too good to practice…that would only be wasting my time and energy as well as exposing my secrets. I would have Lew tear up the practice fields and replace them with a lazy river and a waterslide…because I won’t be needing them.
Also, when I recruit all commitments are made prior to signing day and I sit back and relax. Really it’s a great thing, I don’t understand why people act like being a college coach is so hard : )
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
I say Xavier was worse
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Mangino drama was worse IMO
I had a deep down feeling we’d land X all along and he was a player, it wasn’t changing the ship of leadership (get it, leader-SHIP eh eh?) of an entire program.
I’d say the stupid rumors of Self bolting for Okie State after we won the title were worse than Xgate
no way...
X gate had three separate flare ups over the course of a year. It started in October with his initial commitment. Then flared up again in April/May…and we even had the whole June deal where he wasn’t showing up for summer school. Xavier was nearly a year long crisis for Kansas fans.
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Xgate was longer with more flarups
But the overall ramifications for Manginogate or more longterm and program shaping. A coach > a player.
When X wins MVP in the tourny on our way to the title then your argument shall hold more merit :)
When Poppa Henry got involved, that's when we hit rock bottom
What was the quote about his kids being better than Sherron and Cole?
The entire country was laughing at that one.
Sawin' wood - damn, blade just broke
This just in....
from a camera set up at the entrance to the football complex…it seems as though Mangino has been fired and Jim Harbaugh hired….in this photo you can clearly see what seems to be an all out brawl between Mangino and Perkins while Harbaugh celebrates in the background with his newly signed contract in hand…..ok ok I can dream can’t I? And yes the camera is of low quality
what does the door say…the door will know the answer???
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Side note
Can we be expecting FFB Power Rankings? I know you’ve been busy, so it would be understandable if you took another week off.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
will do my best tomorrow is going to be hectic...
just got a text that all but seals it
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Wow. Big news coming?
I was going to be up for the FIFA draw anyway. Now I’ll keep my eyes glued on both.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
sounds like it...
not sure you need to be up super early or anything but it sounds like the coaches have been told and the players are meeting shortly.
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
think they are just doing an...
open thread type deal or something for people to do kind of like what we do here. Just a way to keep the regular board from getting super cluttered. Not sure, but I think that’s what they are talking about.
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
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