I don't guess we'll ever know definitively, but if there were enough players to field a team vs. BYU Pinkel's move should have been to voice support for the "striking" players, not suspend them, and say we're playing the game with the players on hand.

The tap dancing that has to be done to not get labeled a racist (with the all-too predictable faux outrage) has become laughable. Pinkel didn't think it through and it cost him his job and the University dearly.

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Posted by Tackle74

Columbia, MO

Member since Mar 2012

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Posted on 3/22/16 at 3:55 pm to Mizz-SEC

Sorry Mizz-SEC but Pinkel was in a no win situation a true catch-22. If he did not support the kids then Mizzou Football could forget about recruiting black athletes to the playing field. Fact that escapes everyone is that players have real power when they band together. There are no games without them and they used it. The only ones I really blame are that frickhead hunger strike sob and the radicals on his side. Also the admin really fricked up and did not deescalate the situation. If so called "supporters" of the University pull the support then they were never really fully supporting it before. It is the same as our fair weather fans and all the bullshite excuses from them over the years (dear hunting/its too hot etc).

This post was edited on 3/22/16 at 3:57 pm

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