[Enlightened1]

Here is the interview,

https://soundcloud.com/infoblizzard-music/gary-pinkel-interview-gets-awkward-quick-may-cringe-a-few-times

[Balding_Eagle]

I listened to the interview, but I’m not a sports guy so I don’t quite know how to interpret these kinds of interviews.

The coach was grilled, and it seems a little unfairly, but it sounds like the only one who ‘lost it’ is the writer of the column, Jim Hoft.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[xrmusn]

I guess my racist, biased, old bones just can’t get the gumption up to care when a certain race is 10% of the Student population, 50+% of the Football team, (probably) at least 80% of the Basketball team.

Yet, the Student Body President and Homecoming King were members of this downtrodden group.

Funny(?? NOT HA HA FUNNY??) how the Middle School in SF CAL had a big todo when whites were a 10 or 20% of the group and the exact same circumstance in regards to elections took place and ‘they’ thought it was the end of the world.

Coach take heed - Once upon a time if a team enmasse decided to sit ANYTHING out it really didn’t happen because they knew the bottom line.

Now that a rag tag outfit got the #1 and #2 to leave because of their ‘protest’, how stable is YOUR job if they decide you yelled at them or made them run that extra lap and ‘they’ figure the days of your being a martinet are finished?

[Rummyfan]

On Monday Coach Pinkel tweeted out that the Mizzou football team stood as one.

Trying to protect his job, nothing more nothing less.

[EEGator]

Pandering to whiners is always a losing proposition.

[Johnny Carcinogen]

Good luck trying to coach a team that knows it can just get you fired at any moment.

Their football program is most likely headed for some hard times.

[Tupelo]

Since the chilrn are now running the show at the University of Missouri, I wonder if Gary Pinkel can even call plays now. At least without consulting the cilluns.

Can anyone here even imagine how you would feel if you spent thousands in borrowed money for your kid to go there?

[Alberta's Child]

The bigger picture here is that college football players generate a ton of revenue for an NCAA Division I school, and because of this they can effectively run the school if they want to.

Once this group of players threatened to boycott the next game, the president was gone. The University of Missouri -- and the conference they belong to -- would have gotten themselves involved in a huge financial/legal mess with the TV network (CBS, I think) that pays tens of millions of dollars to broadcast their games.

The more interesting angle of this story is that NCAA players all over the country can now see themselves staging a similar type of "strike" for any reason whatsoever -- and getting pretty much any results they want.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Pinkell has lost control of the team. It was obvious when the “unnamed” player went to ESPN and state4d that about half of the team does NOT support the proposed boycott and Pinkell went public stating they are united in agreement and support.

I suspect other college administrations will be hesitant to grant an interview to a coach who so publicly stabbed his prior administrators who hired him in the back. After all, Pinkell is not a “legend” ala’ Bryant, Hayes and Paterno. He will NOT have the Mizzou job for life.

Mizzou gets what they deserve from this.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

The losers in life always complain and are never satisfied with anything.

BLM is full of life’s losers from the top down.

[gusty]

I thought Pinkel did a good impression of a citizen of the USSR circa 1938. Except a Soviet citizen worried about losing his life, while this coward does not. Despite all the talk on the rubber chicken circuit about integrity you here from these types, the vast majority of coaches have no integrity. I say this from observing a lifetime of coaches when presented an opportunity to show true integrity failing every time. This phony would cut his grandmother's throat if he thought it would further his own career. A lot of people make the mistake of assuming that coaches are a conservative lot, they are not. From the HS level where each and everyone is a member of the teacher's union in good standing to the pro level where each one tries to parrot the PC line championed at ESPN. Someone will probably respond by saying “what about so and so”, but remember even “so and so” will fold like a cheap camera when push comes to shove.

[bjorn14]

Reminds me of story Bill Walton told about John Wooden during the Nixon days. Walton goes to Wooden saying the team is going to boycott the next game to protest Nixon’s crimes in Watergate. Wooden says “It has been nice having you on the team, Bill” They wrote a letter instead.

[centurion316]

I listened to this interview live. Pinkel has yet to figure out how much he has screwed up. He thought by sending out a tweet without informing his boss and the university administrators he would unite the team. It turns out that a number of players, including some of the black players, did not agree with this stunt. Pinkel has lost control of this team and he will never get it back. He has also lost many alums and some of them have very deep pockets. I think that he will be gone before the end of the season.