Missouri Football Coach Gary Pinkel: Mizzou Family Stands As One

[big_dog]

Source: NBC News KSHB 3 hours agp

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Hours after some of his players declared they would strike, Missouri Tigers football head coach Gary Pinkel said the team's staff was behind his players.

"The Mizzou Family stands as one," Pinkel said in a tweet. "We are united. We are behind our players." In Pinkel's tweet, players and coaches - both black and white - can be seen linking arms.

Late Saturday evening, some of the team's black players announced their intentions to strike in an effort to remove University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe.

Those involved feel the university and Wolfe have not done a good enough job responding to alleged racist incidents around the campus. A background of the controversy was recently published by The Columbia Missourian.

Read more: http://www.kshb.com/news/state/missouri/missouri-football-coach-gary-pinkel-mizzou-family-stands-as-one

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[SoLeftIAmRight]

1. stand up

I wish this would spread to all the SEC teams.

[underpants]

2. I just heard this on the local news. Surprising and impressive

Well done or the whole campus and the football team standing up is remarkable. Good for them.

[Scuba]

3. Good on them! Solidarity, Mizzou!!

[NobodyHere]

4. Pinkel has resigned