Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel to resign at end of season

Missouri head football coach Gary Pinkel will resign after the 2015 season due to health issues, according to Missouri Tigers team website.

The Tigers lead 6-3 at the half on two Andrew Baggett field goals and maintained that lead until the midway point of the third quarter, when BYU scored on a rushing touchdown that coach Pinkel was visibly upset with. The winningest coach in school history revealed he had been diagnosed with lymphoma in May, and had undergone several rounds of treatment over the summer. Pinkel and the rest of the team united behind this stance, meaning Saturday’s game wouldn’t have been played and would have lost the university $1 millions dollars if Wolfe stayed in his position. Tough week. Great medicine.

On top of a hard 4-5 season, Pinkel has been embroiled in a national controversy since Saturday night when a group of African-American players announced they were boycotting all team activities until UM System President Timothy M. Wolfe was removed from office.

That’s when Pinkel, who had stood by his striking players, announced that he would step down at season’s end. Pinkel will address questions after the Tigers game today at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

After getting help from a five yard penalty on the Mizzou defense, Algie Brown ran the ball in for a touchdown on a perfectly called draw play that gave the Cougars their first (and only) lead of the game at 10-6.

Missouri answered with arguably its two most important touchdowns of the season.

Missouri finally found the end zone in the fourth quarter, scoring twice.

On a field-goal attempt, Missouri defensive end Walter Brady was flagged for delay of game for an abrupt movement that caused a false start, giving the Cougars a first down.

The Tigers forced a fumble on the next BYU possession, then drove down the field and extended the lead to 20-10, before hanging on for the victory.

Marcell Frazier with the strip sack and Mizzou comes up with the ball. The players “looked scared”, he said, adding that he became “an absolute wreck emotionally”. “We are extremely appreciative of all that he has done for Mizzou”. We wanted to rally for each other, no matter our color, our race.

That BYU happened to be Missouri’s next opponent was rather ironic, considering how insolar the Provo, Utah campus seems to the outside world.

Others were upset that Pinkel didn’t go far enough to back up the implications of his tweet, waffling over the bigger picture and then disavowing the part of the message that gave a nod to Concerned Student 1950, the protest group so named for the first year African-American students were admitted to MU. A spokesman for the Chiefs said security made a mistake not letting the fan in. If the reference point for Mangum and the BYU offense is a scoreless performance at MI in September, there were considerable signs of growth.