University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe steps down…
The chancellor of MU says he will end his days at the college this year as well over protests by students over race relations at the school.
And all of this was brought to a head by two student leaders. Payton Head, the president of MSA, complained about students in a car yelling the N word at him. Later someone using human waste to write a swastika on the walls of a bathroom. Nobody has been named or arrested for any of these incidents yet, but more were reported. The president of the school was aware of these and other incidents according to students but did little to prevent further issues.
The result was a hunger strike by student Jonathan Butler.
All of these acts were bandied about on Facebook and social media. Next the student football players got behind the students and Butler and the football team announced it would not play this coming weekend’s game if MU’s president didn’t step down – which he finally did.
There was also nationwide talk about the treatment of football players and athletes at predominately white college campuses. Regular African American students did not have nearly the care or attention that was given to the student athletes. Everything from tutors to living conditions.
And once it became national news everyone jumped in on the side of the students.
Heads rolled, speeches were made – even by MU head football coach Gary Pinkel. However, it was clear he was not briefed on all the issues. But still he went ahead and backed his players and the students.
So what’s the future of all this?
Racism is nothing new in America and it’s clearly wrong.
The most obvious thing we see here is a new student power, using sports and the money as a weapon against a school.
Is this the beginning of a new student power on other issues?
Like PAYING PLAYERS.
Colleges make millions on sports – mostly football. And if the students unify nationally on other issues like payment to play – which is possible – they could threaten to sit out future games for other gains.
Look how fast this all happened at MU.
And it could get much worse nationwide.
We all know that only time and education will slow down racial tension. However now money and other considerations for students could be an issue solved by boycotting the playing of games in the future.
And now Gary Pinkel retires after being diagnosed with lymphoma. Sheezus what a week.
Smart man, he knows when the gig is up.
Gary Pinkle has cancer and knew it in May, wanted to see if he could continue to coach. He has decided to work on his illness and spend his remaining years with his family. Sounds like he will leave soon. Sad and timing was tough, but he did a great job in his 15 years at MU bringing them back to national prominence. Two SEC championship games in the last two seasons before this down year…MU was on the verge of being an elite program. Just short of a national title game…he will be missed.
CG, Pinkel left because the school’s reputation is ruined thus Pinkel can’t recruit anymore.
He got scammed or is a total idiot — guess it doesn’t matter.
I thought he be gone before next season but didn’t expect it to happen so soon. He has single handedly cursed recruiting at MU for a decade. They will have a very hard time find a new coach.
I hope people boycott the game tomorrow.
More like Pinkel was scammed. His players weren’t going to play so he sided with them to keep the locker room. All he was doing was buying time. The Mizzou president resigned and then Pinkel realized the program was effectively ruined for the next 10,000 years. No way to recruit players anymore as who the hell is going to go to a now OFFICIAL CESSPOOL that Mizzou has become.
You’re both idiots. Pinkel had no choice in the matter. If he doesn’t back his players, you can forget about recruiting another African American kid to Mizzou, EVER. Oh and by the way…not one single recruit has backed out of his commitment to Missouri. To make Missouri out to be some 1950’s version of Mississipi is ridiculous. This is the same campus where Michael Sam was embraced and celebrated. Are there pockets of morons? Yes, and they must be dealt with. But to act like this is the death knell for Mizzou or it’s football program, is just wishful thinking on some people’s part.
read about hearnes favorite school Kansas
as they prepare to fire leaders….
its on the internet spreading fast!
I saw the video of Jonathan Butler breaking his ‘hunger strike’ — he was eating fried chicken — I’m no health care expert but I do know that someone who is in the process of dying would not eat any fried food for his first meal after a hunger strike.
Butler is a liar. Pinkel and his football team are fools. Wolfe and the Chancellor are weaklings.
… and the Missouri taxpayer is stuck with the bill.
If I say I’m on a hunger strike will my tax bill be forgiven?
Its getting thick.
What does that mean?
MU was never on the verge of being an elite program. Around the SEC the word was they won the East when the East was down. Only to get destroyed by a west team in Atlanta. They never recruited well in the SEC. Yes their recruiting class would be one of the top in the Big 12, but in the SEC… Almost the bottom.
The last two weeks set the program back decades. What viable coach wants to there with that fire storm? The next MU HC won’t be a big name. Won’t be the guy from Houston or Memphis or Temple. It will more then likely be from within. Or look for former UCM HC Willie Fritz to get the job.
word….already coaches lining up to coach at mu. The pay is excellent…
one of top programs in nation and of course one of the fastest growing
universities in the nation with 600 million for its athletic department
sitting in the bank.
Watch for either steckel to come back or major coach who knows that
mizzou is on the move upward.
Now how about that beatty guy at ku. He’s really doing an impressive
job. When will he win his first game as worst college football team in
ncaa history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So are you guys saying he’s not ill with cancer? I think thats not something he’d make up. Yes timing seems strange I agree. When I heard it first on 610 in the afternoon they just heard ‘health reasons’ and thought as you did, the fire is too hot…but later we learned he was diagnosed with cancer in May. Still…who knows.
Life expectancy at his age it they caught it in it’s first stage (Which is common, it presents in an obvious fashion.), is 93% – 10 years.
He wasn’t going to quit.
chuckles the sad racist clown…you are the dumbest man
I have ever seen.
you have no common sense.
did you get hit by a shovel digging those holes?
Harley, I could be a big help to you in your efforts to bring another Pulitzer to a MU J school graduate.
You are so close.
hey chuck. Where did you get that oncologist degree?
You dig ditches….thank god you’re not a doctor…you don’t
have the brains to even think straight!
Your daughters 50 cent contribution to mu won’t be missed.
They’ve already started another billion dollar funding drive!
wrong again boys!!!!
Gary Pinkle took over a mess in 2000 and turned the mu program
in to one of the top football programs in the nation.
Greatest thing was moving to the sec….he leaves the program with
1. 600 million in cash for improvements to the football stadium
and other athletic facilities that is unheard of for a university like mizzou
or the penniless and broke ku and k state colleges. Both ku and k state
can barelykeep their doors open because of huge spending cuts instituted
under their governor. They have fallen to the bottom of the trashheap.
KU fans…hope you enjoy years of being the WORST team in ncaa history
as you wait for bball season.
2. Recruiting: Gary ranked an incredible number 18 in his 2015 recruiting class
in the nation according to rivals. For a state without the type of football
talent found in most states…he has turned dozens of 2 star and 3 star high school
athletes into first round nfl draft choices and nfl players. And it continues.
Remains to be seen which of the recruits he’s been going after will stay with MU
but he has a y oung teamthat will compete nationally next year.
3. A great coach: stood by Michael Sam during his outing. Stood with his team
during the recent strike. You only need to read what his former players said
about him to know he was loved by his players.
4. the future: Coaches will be lining up for the job. Already mentioned are 3
former nfl coaches who have waited for a college job. Or they might go
back and get Dave Steckel from mo state to come back. Whatever the
case MU has become a world class university in the last 6 years. More
research money in the millionshas flowed in….70k at the games….bigger
tailgating than arrowhead….record student enrollment….one of the largest
national fan bases in college sports (ranked #20 and growing)….new
educational programs including the plan to become the Wharton of the Midwest… Mizzou is on the rise…and will continue.
5. Cancer: many knew of his situation. He loved the kids he coached. It was
tough to leave them. But the grind of being a college football coachis hard and
he took that into account.
All mu fans wish him the best in his fight against cancer. He has done an
incredible job and is deeply loved by the entire MU fan family.
6. His record: came into the sec with a huge challenge…to go against the
toughest teams in the toughest conference. He brought mu football back
to national prominence and with it the university which is now a world class
institution. He carried the university on his backand did a remarkable job
not only as coach but as ambassador for the university which is growing and
prospering like no other campus in the nation.
We will miss him. Good luck gary in your travels.
Quit in the middle of the season. The cancer prognosis is not that dire enough to quit, it’s an excuse to leave a ruined program.
hey furioso…didn’t know you were an oncologist on
kcc.
You stupid f*ck stfu….who are you to say what the chance
of a man’s health prognosis. We already had a ditch
digger (chuck) give us his health prognosis for cancer although
he was a $12 an hour dirt worker.
And to prove you wrong again…gary did not quit in the
middle of the season….if you could read you would see he
was not retiring til the END OF THIS SEASON.
Another faceplant from another kcc loser!
Embarrassing. It will be rare to see anyone wearing MU shirts for a very long time.
A coach is supposed to be the dictator of the team … he let the team tell him what to do … total failure.
Sorry, but I was out the Legends on Saturday and Mizzou garb was quite visible. But continue with your wishful thinking.
yes glaze…the athletes took a losswith northwestern…its just a matter of
time till they demand money for playing while the schools make billions
off of them.
It will shake the ncaa…the tv networks…the colleges….the coaches…and most
importantly when the players realize they are risking their health and futures
to play football they will realize that they have the power to either not play
the games or be compensated for their playing such a tough sport.
I know that right now many tv execuvitives are shaking in their boots.
Now that they’ve seen what happened at mu…its just a matter of time
til this entire sports billion dollar program explodes.
There are already moves to get players to join a union going on…it will
continue because the money is huge.
And when the money is huge….people listen and act!
I am pretty sure I jumped the shark.
Mizzou’s next coach is already on staff. It’s Barry Odom, although Tom Herman will get a phone call.
not familiar with odom but if he can keep andy hill on the staff it
saves the team…no one recruits like andy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that’s the only way they can go. From the inside.
Last two weeks have killed their chance of getting a top HC. Plus, you have SC job open. At the end of the year GA job maybe open. And if USC offers him the job again, aTm might be trying to find another HC. Hiring from the inside might be the only way to go.