THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 2011
QUOTE OF THE DAY
PAGE 9
"Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track."
— Freddy Adu, YouTube.com
At age 14, soccer player Freddy Adu played both a rookie and the highest paid player in the MLS.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Who joined Adu, then 14 years old, in a Sierra Mist commercial?
A: Pele
Imagine an alternate football universe
MORNING BREW
I can't blame coach Turner Gill for being a nice guy, lucky enough to receive a great contract from an athletic director on his way out. However, during the Texas chainsaw-less massacre that was Saturday's football game, I closed my eyes and imagined an alternate universe, where Lew Perkins and Mark Mangino were still in town. The daydream went something like this ...
There Mangino sat, perched on the top floor of the Gridiron Club's steel bastion. One hand rested on the arm of an Italian leather lounge chair, the other hand waved a glass of scotch. His eyes tilted up at Lew Perkins.
Perkins gazed at Kivisto Field from the bastion's wide windows with his back to Mangino.
"Well," Mangino said. "What are we going to do?"
Perkins turned slowly toward Mangino and let a grin slide up his face.
"We tell them what it is," Perkins
said. "Constructive criticism."
In this alternate universe the NCAA has been investigating Mangino for years because of his practice routine. Unlike, say, Turner Gill who coaches at Buffalo, Mangino turns the color of a bleeding strawberry and ruthlessly swears at his players each practice. He calls players names abolished before the Monroe Doctrine, words so dirty, three soap sandwiches couldn't clean his mouth.
Perkins calls it "constructive criticism." but the NCAA disagrees, threatening the steel bastion, and the winning. They threaten the house that Mark built.
"I don't want to change my ways," Mangino said. "That victory in Austin on Saturday should be reason enough."
After topping the Longhorns 46-43, Mangino's team is in contention for an Orange Bowl bid. Kale Pick, Todd Reesing's agile and able successor, has kept Kansas' spread offense afloat by finding his favorite receiver Bradley McDougald and by handing it off to running back Toben Opurum.
Meanwhile, the Gridiron Club has triumphed, not flopped. It has become the business savvy, elitist domain for football, alcohol and a Saturday away from home. Most fans could never afford a seat, but the club treats those who can with the finest service ticket scandals can buy. Fillet mignon with a side of butternut squash. Wine, merlot or chardonnay. Texas recruits, quarterbacks or
receivers.
Mangino joins Perkins as they gaze at Kivisto Field, laughing from the top of the steel bastion, pondering life's riches and the powerhouse football program they built.
"Nothing needs to change." Perkins said. "Keep your mouth shut outside of practice and sip your scotch."
Edited by Adam Strunk
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