Coach Pinkel...and he did.

yes big thanks and much respect

Thanks Coach.
Get well.

You took us to places we'd never been and did it your way.
Thanks for your hard work.

Thanks for the ride, Gary. For me, you are Missouri football. I was 10 when you first started and it has been great watching the program blossom to new heights. Every year, it seemed the program's expectations grew bigger. You truly took the program to a place some fans couldn't even begin to fathom during the late Larry Smith era.

On behalf of Missouri fans, cheers.

Sad to see a terrible thing happen to a great person. Big thanks to Pinkel for bringing life back to this program. Will be missed.

Former Mizzou offensive lineman Max Copeland:

“Coach Pinkel is such an apt personification of the term “toughness.” Not just in his demeanor or speech, but in the success of our brothers and those who came before us. True leadership reflects itself in those who are led. Thus every fourth quarter victory, every converted 4th and 1, and even the marred, stoic faces of the young men fighting for old Mizzou are vivid exemplifications of a man founded on toughness and drive. I’ll forever remember being called into his office, on the assumption of impending lashes for the heavy metal volume in the locker room, and instead hearing the word “scholarship” (and thereafter trying to calm the ringing in my ears from adrenaline). The legacy Coach Pinkel will be leaving is beyond question, as is the toughness he will take with him to his next battle. As I felt in the autumn of 2013, so I do now: I fear for anything that dare test his will.”

If only one of our current O-Linemen had this kind of heart, we'd be in the hunt for the East.