Mark Mangino is out at Kansas. The big fella resigned amidst allegations of player “abuse,” which is a bit of a joke to me. First we have guys sitting out of games with concussions, and now this? The worst thing that Mangino did was making a kid crawl on hot AstroTurf after missing a weigh-in. The moral of the story? Don’t coach teams where players miss weigh-ins.

Oregon is in the Rose Bowl to play Ohio State on New Year’s Day. Jeremiah Masoli might be the black Samoan Tim Tebow after the number that ESPN has been doing on this guy since he beat Southern Cal. Actually, as of now, he is the black Tim Tebow. Anyhoo, somebody already was bitching about this game because it involved teams that fell short of national title aspirations, to say nothing of the fact that the Rose Bowl is one of the biggest obstacles that proponents of a FCS playoff. It’s one game. You’re still getting Florida/Alabama-Texas…

Unless Ndmukong Suh has anything to say about it. Who? Suh, that defensive end from Nebraska that you probably haven’t heard of, helped vault the Huskers into the Big XII title game against Texas, and if he has his way, we could be seeing a Mountain West team play for the national championship. Which would doubly kick ass because Mack Brown would probably have a heart attack. Not that I want anyone to endure any sort of cardiac arrest. Except Mack Brown. His assistants could campaign for AP voters to find him a new heart. He seems to be good at doing that.

Kansas football coach Mark Mangino has been the (ahem) butt of lighthearted t-shirts in Lawrence that broadcast such slogans as "Our Coach Beat Anorexia" and "Our Coach Is Phat."  But at least one Jayhawk doesn't like his spheroid of a coach denigrated in such a fashion.

"I guess everyone has a different sense of humor," said KU linebacker Mike Rivera… "Some things are funny to some people.  But sometime[s] you have to think about what other people feel."

Whoa whoa whoa.  Fat people have feelings?  I just figured all that blubber served as a protective buffer from the world.  Okay, okay, I'm sorry, fatties of the world.  How can I make it up to you?  Slice of deep-fried cake?

[Deadspin]