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Nail, meet hammer. Pinkel is not only dumb, he’s a coward as well.

Football scholarships are not guaranteed; they are renewed on an annual basis. If Pinkel had anything approaching a spine, he would tell his players to choose between their playing careers, or their activities as young revolutionaries. If they opted for the latter, Pinkel could easily find more African-American athletes to take their place on the roster.

Instead, Pinkel helped the lunatics take control of the asylum, and he’s further along in the guillotine line than he realizes. That group of 30 football players realizes they now run the campus and they will make the most of their new-found power. What happens when one of them gets bumped as a starter? Or when another doesn’t get as much playing time? They will come after Pinkel with the same ferocity they mustered against Tim Wolfe.

I missed the heads-up about the Ferguson machine moving to Columbia, but it makes perfect sense. Ferguson was an opportunity to mobilize and focus their tactics. When Darren Wilson was (rightfully) cleared, there wasn’t much they could do, except protest more and burn down the few stores that were left. Ferguson is a poor community and it wasn’t much of a prize.

On the other hand, the University of Missouri system is a multi-billion dollar enterprise. And the spineless weasels still employed at the top of that pyramid are running scared. They are in the early stages of throwing money and power at the protesters, hoping they will go away. Mark my words, the new president of the Mizzou system will be African-American and they will spend millions more on diversity training, ethnocentric mental health programs and new academic offerings that are an intellectual joke, but aimed at placating the radicalized masses on campus.

Of course, Pinkel has a multi-million dollar buyout in his contract. So when the program hits bottom, Mizzou’s athletic department will have to write him a very large check.