Mangino: "It's not over"

Embattled Kansas Coach Mark Mangino said don’t assume anything about his future.

“It hasn’t played out yet,” Mangino said on the Big 12 coaches teleconference Monday morning. “It’s not over.”

Mangino said he would have preferred the school’s investigation into his alleged abusive actions to have been conducted outside of the public realm.

“From that aspect you don’t like it,” Mangino said. “But you live with it. You keep coaching the kids and keep doing what you like doing.”

Asked if he had any communication with athletic director Lew Perkins last week, Mangino said “practically none. A social call from the athletic director last week for a few minutes.”

The guess here is that by social, Mangino meant something else.

Should there be more communication?

“I don’t know if there should be or shouldn’t be,” Mangino said. “You always like communication with everybody, with players, coaches, administrators, support staff, but I’m good, I’m fine, I’m working, my players are really focused.

“Your question perhaps should not be directed at me if you understand what I’m saying.”

Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops said he there were no incidents with Mangino when served on the Sooners’ staff before taking the KU job for the 2002 season.

“He was very close with them, appreciated them, did everything that was appropriate,” Stoops said. “To comment on what is or what isn’t true, that isn’t for me to do.”

Kansas State coach Bill Snyder echoed the sentiments. Mangino was on Snyder's staff for much of the 1990s.

"That didn't happen to my knowledge," Snyder said when asked if there were any incidents. "Not a whole lot slips under the radar from that respect. He handled the players well."

Texas Tech Coach Mike Leach said Mangino "is in the middle of witch hunt," and mocked the situation. "The mean man told some player something he didn't want to hear. Well, there's a mean man in Lubbock who tells players what they don't want to hear. That's just part of it."