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Friday, December 7, 2007

Jayhawks, Mangino fare well in awards

By J-W Staff Reports

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Mangino named National Coach of the Year

Tonight KU football head coach Mark Mangino was named the National Coach of the Year at the Football Awards Show in Orlando, Florida.

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Reinhold Matay/AP Photo

Kansas University football coach Mark Mangino poses with the Home Depot Coach of the Year Trophy. Mangino won the award Thursday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Orlando, Fla. — Kansas University's football team came away with gobs of hardware at Thursday's College Football Awards Show.

The most notable honor went to KU coach Mark Mangino, who was named the Home Depot Coach of the Year.

Mangino, in his sixth year at Kansas, led the program out of mediocrity and into the Orange Bowl. The Jayhawks finished the regular season 11-1.

"I appreciate the Home Depot and ESPN for the award," Mangino said. "However, this award represents our wonderful players and our great assistant coaches, who have worked to make this an incredible season. It's not about me. It's about us."

"Us" also was honored Thursday. The Jayhawks were named Breakthrough Team of the Year for their five-game improvement over last year's 6-6 season.

In addition, junior cornerback Aqib Talib and junior offensive tackle Anthony Collins were named to the Walter Camp All-America team, voted on by the Football Writers Association of America.

Collins also was an Outland Trophy finalists, but lost to LSU defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey. The Outland Trophy goes to the nation's top interior lineman.

Mangino, already named Big 12 coach of the year, is a finalist for at least two other national coach-of-the-year honors - the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award and the Eddie Robinson Award. The Associated Press names a national coach of the year, as well, which Mangino likely is on a short list of candidates for.

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bulldawgs (anonymous) says...

Coach Mangino is also nominated for the 22nd Annual Paul "Bear" Bryant College Football Coaching Awards

This award has been given by the American Heart Association since the Bear's death...seems like a fitting award for our coach...

http://www.americanheart.org/presente...

December 7, 2007 at 5:49 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

okjhok (anonymous) says...

Coach Mangino should be very proud of what he's accomplished. His hard work and tenacity has paid off. The sky's the limit for him and his teams in the future.

December 7, 2007 at 5:54 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

sevenyearhawk (anonymous) says...

Folks ...

Just LOOK at the expression on his face, I don't think I've even seen Coach look happier!!!

Let me remind everyone, this guy didn't graduate college, he worked as a first responder on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, he lived in another coach's basement with his family (something I had to do myself) ...

Coach has endured both personal and professional criticisms ...

think about how far he has come ...

Well done Coach, well done!

December 7, 2007 at 6:22 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

jayhawkinatl (anonymous) says...

Vote for Mangino everyday at:

www.coachoftheyear.com

He's currently in 6th place.

December 7, 2007 at 6:57 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

txrockchalk (anonymous) says...

These awards are well-deserved! Congratulations to Coach Mangino, Collins, Talib, and the rest of the team and coaching staff for an excellent job and season. Watching the awards show last night made me very proud to be a Jayhawk and KU football fan.

December 7, 2007 at 7:34 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

Mangino_Maniac (anonymous) says...

Congrats to coach and the entire Jayhawk squad!!! Absolutely fantastic!!!!

P.S. I still think the LJW should reconsider which stories they headline on this site (see responses to 'tradition' thread). I believe Coach Mangino deserves top honors and should be top headline for winning this award, but for some reason the LJW wishes to emphasis handcuffed bball players and the dollar amount to be received from bowl appearances.

December 7, 2007 at 7:38 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

wi_jayhawk (anonymous) says...

Anyone else see the irony in Lee Corso being the one to interview Mangino after he won? I thought it was hilarious!

December 7, 2007 at 8:26 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

txrockchalk (anonymous) says...

wi_jayhawk, that was kind of funny. Would you agree Corso is as good of an interviewer as he is an analyst? ;)

December 7, 2007 at 8:50 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

supermario15 (anonymous) says...

"it's not about me.it's about us."

that is the attitude that has allowed KU to have the success.No one is concerned with individuals they want to win and are willing to do anything to win

December 7, 2007 at 9:26 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

beebe1 (anonymous) says...

Which stories they headline on this site(?) Are there any stories they leave out? What little I've seen, they list them all! Sooner or later they pretty well cover the subject -- ALL subjects. What is this criticism about 'headlines'? They segregate the listings by sport. What else do you need?

December 7, 2007 at 10:03 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

sevenyearhawk (anonymous) says...

T...ogether
E...veryone
A...ccomplishes
M...ore

December 7, 2007 at 10:04 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

JayViking (anonymous) says...

wooohooooo !!!!!

December 7, 2007 at 10:07 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

plasticJHawk (anonymous) says...

beebe1
What MM was saying is that the article that get the most resonses and the most discussion lately hasn't been the article at the top of the page with the big picture. Personally I figured that the Top Headline for the day would be Mangino wins Coach of the Year Honor, or Talib and Collins grab 1st Team All-America Honors. Not KU will get $4Million Dollars for their Bowl game.

In fact when I logged on early this morning I didn't even open that Top article, I scolled down to find the one that talked about these awards. As an example, the morning after KU was selected to the Orange Bowl the headline was about KU's BBall victory over USC, a game that was poorly played and was very ugly (I would guess that maybe more people watched the BCS Selection Show than the BBall game) the big headline was about the USC game not the Orange Bowl selection.

Based on responses and discussion generated by these artices football is getting BY FAR more attention than the early nonconference basketball games. After all this is the HUGEST football season in KU football history!

December 7, 2007 at 10:31 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

dagger108 (anonymous) says...

Part of the site question may have to do with how you enter the site. If you go thru kusports.com, you get the picture of whatever someone thinks is the major story (questionable). It is also possible to save sub-links for the LJW site by sport (what it seemed that Beebe was referring to). On my home pc, I have links for all the sports listed, tho I only access the main page at the office.

That being said, LJW deserves a bit of a break on their approach to their job. We are going thru a paradigm shift, which takes some rethinking of how things are handled and doesn't happen instantly for many people.

It seems rather similar to attendance at games. KU was in contention for a national title, and what was the attendance like (rhetorical ?). NU on the other hand was getting pasted, but they still sold out a stadium twice as big, and likely will next year and the year after even if Pelini isn't able to turn them around. It is just part of the way they think in husker-land. Some MU punks have commented elsewhere about them drawing more fans than us meaning some margin of superiority (typically delusional), but really all that shows is that they have had a bit more momentum. KU MBB has NU FB kind of momentum, and KU FB is gaining it. When you're talking teams and arenas/fans as large as FB, it just takes a bit more time and patience to build the momentum.

The schedule takes a definite step up in degree of difficulty, so hopefully the fan base can continue to build momentum next year as well, even if it is not a near perfect year.

Rock Chalk!

December 7, 2007 at 1:14 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

jayhawkr34 (anonymous) says...

once again i pose the question, with all the high profile coaches firings in high profile programs, how long til coach of the year mangino's name starts getting thrown around? i hope not, but with allthe attention he is getting he is bound to crose some AD's minds. congrats coach and team once again for making the jayhawk nation proud!!

December 7, 2007 at 1:57 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

jayhawkr34 (anonymous) says...

and oh yeah, go vote for coach at the coach of the year award site, i have 6 emails and i used all of them to vote. you can do the same.

December 7, 2007 at 2:05 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

seattlehawk_78 (anonymous) says...

I've wondered the same thing 34 but with the exception of the Michigan job everything would be a lateral move for Mark. I'm curious to see who ends up in Ann Arbor. If it is a head coach from a high profile program then it might create a domino affect that could result in a series of vacancies. I'm not worried about his departure this season but it is something we may have to contend with in the near future. At this point I'm more concerned about losing assistant coaches.

My hope is that Pinkel is offered the Michigan job and some of their players bolt for the NFL. Wishful thinking but not impossible.

December 7, 2007 at 2:23 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

sevenyearhawk (anonymous) says...

The only place I'd be afraid of losing Coach Mangino to is Ohio State ...

look how long he stayed put as a coordinator ... and he knows he has a good thing here in Kansas!

December 7, 2007 at 2:36 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

rwood (Ryan Wood) says...

While I agree that this is a big deal for Mangino, the fact is there are about six of these coach-of-the-year awards. If he sweeps them, do we write a new story, headline it, put a big picture on it and play it up huge all six times?

Doesn't that water it down?

I think the we plan to pay attention to all of them, but play the Associated Press honor up the biggest, should Mangino win it. That's the honor that comes with a bonus in his contract.

December 7, 2007 at 3:16 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

troutsee (anonymous) says...

Good point.

December 7, 2007 at 4:32 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

seattlehawk_78 (anonymous) says...

7year, what makes you think he'd go to Ohio State? Is Tressel leaving? I'd say Penn State is more likely. He's from Pennsylvania and Paterno can't be coaching there much longer.

December 7, 2007 at 4:53 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

sgtjb123 (anonymous) says...

I think it's funny that he won the award sponsored by Home Depot, being that he's the one who says, "Sawin" wood"!

December 7, 2007 at 6:48 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

actorman (anonymous) says...

Good one, sgtjb.

Ryan, you make a good point about not headlining every minor award, but it still doesn't explain why the headline was about a regular season basketball game when KU was selected to the Orange Bowl.

December 7, 2007 at 9:05 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

rwood (Ryan Wood) says...

The Orange Bowl story was the banner story in the LJW on Monday, with the KU-USC basketball game below it on page 1.

I can't speak for online, because I have nothing to do with it.

December 7, 2007 at 9:08 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

jayhawk02 (anonymous) says...

7year----AMEN to your first two posts. Mangino looks as happy as I've ever seen him, and deservedly so. His attitude about TEAM first allowed this team to mold and mature. Hopefully we can continue to build with it using more athletic recruits. (not to take anything away from our current 2-star players as they have done an excellent job.)

December 7, 2007 at 10:09 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

fabio (anonymous) says...

sevenyear-Ohio State? Well considering OSU won the Big Ten yet again and considering they are in the national title yet again, and considering they beat Michigan yet again, I guess Im a little confused why you think Tressel would be leaving OSU. Do you think he is going to step down after the championship game?
I am not worried about Mangino going to Ohio State.

December 8, 2007 at 9:18 p.m. ( | suggest removal )