My, the Mangino era has deteriorated quickly at Kansas

After capping an 11-1 regular season with an Orange Bowl win in 2007, mounting another eight-win campaign last year and a ripping off a 5-0 start this season, things aren't going so hot for Kansas lately: The Jayhawks are on the verge of missing a bowl game after a five-game skid that includes losses at Colorado and Kansas State, three of the four lowest-scoring efforts in 36 games with Todd Reesing as the starting quarterback and a temporary benching of Reesing at Texas Tech, all of which followed a series of much-publicized dust-ups between members of the football and basketball teams in September. That's almost the textbook definition of "bad month." Might as well take the bad news all the way, then, with a players-only meeting with the administration to discuss "concerns" about one of the most successful head coaches in school history: Kansas University athletic director Lew Perkins met Monday night with the school's football players to discuss c...