Mark Mangino, head coach at Kansas
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Mark Mangino

Mark Mangino went 50–⁠48 as a head coach, 2002–⁠2009, at Kansas.

Record
50–⁠48 career
Seasons
8
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
1 season
Best season
2007 12–⁠1, No. 7

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1704 in 2007
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
2002Kansas2–⁠106th (North)
2003Kansas6–⁠7T–4th (North)Tangerine Bowl L
2004Kansas4–⁠7T–5th (North)
2005Kansas7–⁠55th (North)Fort Worth Bowl W
2006Kansas6–⁠64th (North)
2007Kansas12–⁠12nd (North)Orange Bowl W7
2008Kansas8–⁠53rd (North)Insight Bowl W
2009Kansas5–⁠76th (North)

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.

Players he coached

Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams184–⁠14
Against top-10 teams91–⁠8
Against rivals2410–⁠14
Conference games6423–⁠41
Bowls and playoffs43–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer3215–⁠17
At home5236–⁠16
On the road3810–⁠28
At neutral sites84–⁠4
As our Elo’s favorite4838–⁠10
As our Elo’s underdog5012–⁠38

His own 98 games on file, 2002–⁠2009, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.

Against other head coaches

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Gary Pinkel 2002–⁠20094–⁠4Missouri8
Dan McCarney 2002–⁠20063–⁠2Iowa State5
Bill Snyder 2002–⁠20091–⁠4Kansas State5
Dan Hawkins 2006–⁠20093–⁠1Colorado4
Bill Callahan 2004–⁠20072–⁠2Nebraska4
Gary Barnett 2002–⁠20050–⁠4Colorado4
Bob Stoops 2004–⁠20090–⁠4Oklahoma4
Mack Brown 2004–⁠20090–⁠4Texas4
Mike Leach 2004–⁠20090–⁠4Texas Tech4
Ron Prince 2006–⁠20083–⁠0Kansas State3

Mark Mangino’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Iowa Stateseries86–⁠2
Missouriseries84–⁠4
Kansas Stateseries84–⁠4
Coloradoseries83–⁠5
Nebraskaseries82–⁠6
Baylorseries42–⁠2
Oklahoma Stateseries41–⁠3
Texas A&Mseries41–⁠3

National coaching awards

The awards

National title staffs

Every title staff

The champions’ staffs from 1990 on, as the schools listed them that season: Staff lists: Drew Hoover’s how-many-rings (MIT), from the schools’ media guides and staff pages. Roles as the source words them.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1985–⁠86Youngstown StateAssistant coach
1987–⁠89GenevaOffensive coordinator and offensive line coach
1990Lincoln HS (PA) high schoolHead coach
1991–⁠98Kansas StateRunning game coordinator
1999OklahomaOffensive line coach
2000–⁠01OklahomaOffensive coordinator
2002–⁠09KansasHead coach
2013Youngstown StateAssistant head coach and tight ends coach
2014–⁠15Iowa StateOffensive coordinator and tight ends coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Worked under

Mark Mangino

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (5)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Bill NarduzziYoungstown State1985Assistant coach
Jim TresselYoungstown State1986Assistant coach
Bill SnyderKansas State1991–⁠98Running game coordinator
Bob StoopsOklahoma1999–⁠20011999: offensive line coach; 2000–⁠01: offensive coordinator
Paul RhoadsIowa State2014–⁠15Offensive coordinator and tight ends coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (7)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Clint BowenKansas, 2002: special teams and running backs coach; 2003–⁠05: special teams and safeties coach; 2006–⁠07: co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach; 2008–⁠09: defensive coordinator and safeties coachKansas
Dave DoerenKansas, 2002–⁠04: linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator; 2005: co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coachNorthern Illinois, NC State
Nick QuartaroKansas, 2002–⁠06: associate head coach and offensive coordinatorDrake, Fordham
Seth LittrellKansas, 2002–⁠04: graduate assistantNorth Texas
Ed WarinnerKansas, 2003: offensive line coach; 2004: offensive line coach and RCG; 2007–⁠08: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach; 2009: assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachAvila
Tim BeckKansas, 2005–⁠06: wide receivers coach; 2007: wide receivers coach and passing game coordinatorCoastal Carolina
David BeatyKansas, 2008–⁠09: wide receivers coachKansas
Other assistants under him (6)
CoachWith him
Bill YoungKansas, 2002–⁠07: defensive coordinator
John PapuchisKansas, 2002–⁠03: graduate assistant
Pat HendersonKansas, 2002–⁠04: defensive backs coach
Kevin KaneKansas, 2006–⁠07: student assistant
Mike MalloryKansas, 2006: linebackers coach
Bill MillerKansas, 2009: co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach

From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.

Pay

YearSchoolJobContract pay
2015Iowa Stateoffensive coordinatorbonuses up to $31,125$378,000 USA Today
2014Iowa Stateoffensive coordinatorbonuses up to $29,050$350,000 USA Today
2009Kansashead coachbonuses up to $675,000$2,303,500 USA Today via Leeds
2008Kansashead coach$2,300,000 USA Today via Leeds
2007Kansashead coachbonuses up to $425,000$1,523,940 USA Today via Leeds
2006Kansashead coachbonuses up to $425,000$1,508,381 USA Today via Leeds

USA Today’s coaches salary database (2014–⁠17, from public-records requests to the schools; Rachel Ehlers’ copy): the season’s contract pay, school pay plus outside money, before bonuses.

The same USA Today database for 2006–⁠16, from Michael Leeds’ replication data on Harvard Dataverse (CC0): the season’s contract pay.

Pay of public employees in their public job only: head coaches, and assistants in the seasons our records name them a coordinator, at public universities.

How he coached

Mangino’s teams went for it on 16% of fourth downs and on 29% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 53% of plays and took 24.4 seconds a play, 2004–⁠2009.

SeasonWent for it on fourthWhen the model said goPass rateSeconds a playEPA a play
2004 11 g15 of 108 14%29%53%21.2−0.17
2005 12 g15 of 102 15%24%52%25.4−0.21
2006 12 g11 of 88 13%24%48%26.4−0.09
2007 13 g20 of 97 21%29%51%24.5+0.10
2008 13 g16 of 86 19%43%56%24.8+0.09
2009 12 g17 of 90 19%30%61%23.80.00
All 73 g94 of 571 16%29%53%24.4−0.04

His seasons as a head coach from 2004 on, from ESPN’s play by play: fourth downs where he went for it out of every fourth-down decision; how often he went when SportsDataverse’s fourth-down model said going for it was the better call; the share of his offense’s plays that were passes; seconds of game clock per offensive play (lower is faster); and expected points added per offensive play (EPA, a measure of how much each play moved the offense toward points). The season in progress counts its games so far. SportsDataverse’s coach tendencies, from ESPN’s play by play; the EPA and the fourth-down model are SportsDataverse’s.