Eric Mangini still not winning friends in Cleveland
The latest: According to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Browns rookies and their agents are upset that Mangini is taking them on a 10-hour bus trip to Hartford, Conn., today to work at his football camp and then busing them home on Sunday. "It's a sophisticated form of hazing,'' one league source told Cabot. "I've never heard of anything like it.''
Mangini's eighth annual football camp, for under-resourced children in grades 8-12, is voluntary for the rookies -- but all felt compelled to attend, according to the report.
"It's voluntary, but it's B.S. voluntary,'' said one source. "These players are fighting for starting jobs and playing time. What are they supposed to do, say 'no, I'm not going?'''
Another source put it ... uh ... more succinctly to Profootballtalk.com's Mike Florio.
Oy.
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He must not have used the scouting staff well enough to find under-resourced kids in Ohio. Try Akron next year Manginious.
I am still awaiting the "crossover" column from Boland about Mangini.
Since Boland is in Cleveland covering the Yanks.
I predicted on the Yankee blog that Boland would have lunch/dinner with Mangini at the Brown Derby on Bagley Rd (a stone's throw from the Brown's training complex).
(Wonder if the Brown Derby serves goat's milk?)
If Mangini's in Hartford for his camp and Boland's in Cleveland, when is he going to interview him?
Good point steven