Football



Mark Mangino

Head coach

2nd season
2-10
Youngstown State '87 		 
audio MP3 clip: Mangino on Toomey and Monroe Weekley: audio play

6Sports video: Coach Mangino says Wolfpack's score was KU's fault (12-25-03)

Chat transcript with Mark Mangino (12-5-03)

Mangino: Tangerine Bowl berth certainly will enhance KU recruiting (12-3-03)

Mangino pleased but not satisfied by improvement (11-24-03)

Mangino not concerned by Barmann's early miscues (11-11-03)

Mangino on Bohl's departure: no impact (3-12-03)

The Hiring of Mangino

2003 Bio: Mark Mangino, the 35th head coach in KU history, begins his second season at the helm of the University of Kansas football team after going 2-10 in his first season as the Jayhawks' head coach. Mangino arrived in Lawrence after taking part in the successful turn-around of two Big 12 Conference football programs since 1991.

Mangino, 46, recipient of the 2000 Frank Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in college football, came to KU after working as assistant head coach/offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at the University of Oklahoma for three seasons.

He has been in a leadership role with teams that had qualified for nine consecutive bowl games, including the 2000 season when the Sooners won the Big 12 Conference championship, finished ranked No. 1 nationally and beat Florida State in the Orange Bowl to win the national title.

In addition, he has also been one of the primary architects in the rebuilding process at both Oklahoma (1999-01) and Kansas State (1991-98). As assistant head coach under Bob Stoops at OU, the Sooner staff took a program that was 5-6 in 1998 and carved out seasons of 7-5 (1999), 13-0 (2000) and 10-2 (2001).

Mangino served as recruiting coordinator, running game coordinator and, in 1998, was appointed assistant head coach at Kansas State. The season prior to his arrival in Manhattan, the Wildcats posted a 5-6 record. Over the next eight seasons, K-State went 71-23-1 with six consecutive nine-plus win seasons and played in six consecutive bowl games.

Overall, Kansas State and Oklahoma teams were a combined 101-30-1 and were ranked in the top 25 nationally in eight of 11 seasons during Mangino's involvement on the coaching staff.

During its run to the national championship in 2000, Mangino's Sooner offense ranked seventh nationally in scoring (39.0) and 13th in pass offense (294.7). In addition, OU averaged more than 427 yards per game in total offense for the second consecutive season. Under the influence of Mangino as offensive coordinator, the Sooners ranked second in the conference in pass offense at the conclusion of both the 2000 and 2001 seasons.

During his three years on the Sooner staff, the OU offense scored 31 or more points in 26 of 37 games and produced 40 or more points 14 times. The Sooners have averaged 34.1 points a game over the last three seasons.

"Mark Mangino has been associated with football programs that have experienced phenomenal success and he has been a key ingredient in building that success," said then-KU athletics director Al Bohl.

"We wanted a coach who understands and executes the process for winning championships," added Bohl.

"I'm confident that we found that person in Mark Mangino," said Bohl.

Prior to his stint at Kansas State, Mangino worked one season as head football coach at Ellwood City (Pa.) High School. He spent three seasons (1987-89) as offensive line coach and as offensive coordinator at Geneva (Pa.) College, where he helped that program to its three best seasons (combined 24-9) in modern school history. The 1987 Geneva squad reached the NAIA national semifinals.

Mangino also coached two seasons (1985-86) at Youngstown State, including one under current Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel and was an assistant coach at his alma mater, New Castle (Pa.) High School for four seasons.

Mangino and his wife, Mary Jane, have a daughter, Samantha, a student at the University of Kansas, and Tommy, a 2003 graduate of Lawrence High School.

—Courtesy of kuathletics.com.