Turner Gill is the new head coach at KU

December 13, 2009 toddvogts Personal Notes 0

Turner Gill
The saga of Mark Mangino, the former University of Kansas head football coach who came under fire for allegedly poking a senior linebacker Artist Wright in the chest and being verbally abusive to his players, has come to an end today.

Turner Gill, who coached the Bulls at the University at Buffalo from 2006-09, has been hired as the new Jayhawk head coach.

KUSports.com first reported the possibility yesterday after Rivals.com published a story that had Gill, 47, being offered the Jayhawk football job.

KUSports.com said “Gill has multiple ties to both the Big 12 and KU. He is a former quarterback at Nebraska, and two years ago was a finalist for the Huskers’ head coaching job that eventually went to Bo Pelini. Gill’s daughter, Jordan, is a sophomore at KU and recently began a job in the school’s athletic department.”

KU Athletic Director Lew Perkins said in a statement today that he was excited to have Gill on the team.

“Turner Gill is a winner,” Perkins said in the release reported by KUSports.com. “His accomplishments at Buffalo speak for themselves. But more than that, everyone I talked to about him, starting with (former Nebraska coach) Tom Osborne, had the highest praise for Turner as a coach and as a person.”

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Todd R. Vogts, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of media at Sterling College in Kansas. Previously, he taught yearbook, newspaper, newsmagazine, and online journalism in various Kansas high schools, and he ran a weekly newspaper in rural Kansas. He continues to freelance as a professional journalist from time to time. Also, Vogts is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the Journalism Education Association (JEA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), among others. He earned his Master Journalism Educator (MJE) certification from JEA in 2022. When he’s not teaching or writing, he runs his mobile disk jockey service and takes part in other entrepreneurial ventures. He can be reached at twitter.com/toddvogts or via his website at www.toddvogts.com.