LAWRENCE, Kan.- The list of former players accusing Mark Mangino of either verbal or physical abuse is growing. Former Kansas defensive lineman Cory Kipp told NBC Action News he suffered serious hand burns due to a punishment carried out by the head coach.
Kipp played for Mangino in 2002 and 2003. In his final season at Kansas, Kipp says he failed to weigh in prior to a workout. Mangino told Kipp to meet him after practice. Kipp was expecting to have to run sprints as a punishment. Instead, Mangino told him to bear-crawl across the field. Kipp claims the turf was so hot that day that he stopped after a few yards because it was burning his hands.
"It burned so bad that I fell to my knees. Mangino was walking alongside of me the whole entire time I was doing these bear-crawls. When I fell to my knees, Mangino yelled at me to keep on going...As I got to the end, I fell to my knees again and flipped my hands over. On my right hand, it was burned all the way down to the flesh. Mangino to me, 'Next time you weigh in.' He turned to walk on the bus."
Kipp says the hand was injured for several weeks. At a later team meeting, Kipps says Mangino referenced the injury while watching game tape of Kipp missing a tackle.
"He tells me if I missed another tackle again he was going to burn my other hand."
Kipps took pictures of the injury. He never reported it to school officials out of fear of losing playing time. He insists he is not looking for any notoriety. He says he just felt he should come forward when he heard the other allegations leveled against Mangino by former players.
"Seeing him still doing it to this day, to these players, from what I'm reading. It's horrible. He still hasn't changed. He's still that same Mangino. That hurtful Mangino."
