I also think both sides have handled things poorly. The list of demands from the 1950 group is silly, combative, and divisively unrealistic. It's hard to have a real, positive dialogue when one side is not living in reality.

On the other hand, Wolfe and Loftin have really bungled this whole thing. Wolfe's statement yesterday about systemic oppression shows how out of touch with things he actually is.

And underlying it all is a campus that has seen worsening race relations for several years, even before anyone was thinking about Ferguson or had a clue who Mike Brown was.

Nice contribution. If you don't like the take, respond to it.

Telling each other to **** off doesn't do anything to deal with the underpinning issues, which can only be fixed by discussing them and working to understand each other/find a common ground.

Unless you're talking to an Alex Smith defender. Then feel free to tell them to **** off whenever you want. That's all that needs to be said the.

.... go **** yourself.

I have an idea, why don't you go **** YOURSELF and then let the horse pulling your carriage have his way with your asshole after that!

Quit being an idiot!

High-level football in Kansas and Missouri really sucks these days!

Blow me.

I didn't think y'all did such things in your religion. You do?

Baldy went off on the players on the Gameday Show just now. And Fanning played the part of the bitch just like a bitch.

He's a ****ing idiot, much like this dude who just started postung in here.

You're right, Fanning is an idiot!

They're both idiots.

Like what? I'm trying to figure out what the hell is going on down there.

I think the demands by 1950 have been ridiculous to help get attention.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Mizzou Family stands as one. We are united. We are behind our players. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ConcernedStudent1950?src=hash">#ConcernedStudent1950</a> GP <a href="https://t.co/fMHbPPTTKl">pic.twitter.com/fMHbPPTTKl</a></p>&mdash; Coach Gary Pinkel (@GaryPinkel) <a href="https://twitter.com/GaryPinkel/status/663410502370856960">November 8, 2015</a></blockquote>
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That's awesome.

Pretty blatant use of racial slurs, dehumanizing/generalizing jokes.

Gary Pinkel is a boss

I would like to invite any Mizzou fan that would like to a free pass to jump on the Wazzu bandwagon. The only requirements are that you drink like a fish and hate anything with the colors purple and pee.

We have like half your former coaching staff anyway so it would be an easy transition.

Racial tensions have been on the rise at KU as well. While I hesitate to say that things are at the level as they are at Columbia, people of color are routinely targeted on Lawrence's YikYak. While Lawrence and KU believe the "free state" mantra is integral to their identities, last year's student senate elections also put a spotlight on the institutional bottlenecks that are facing the students of color at KU. (Senate candidates need 500 signatures to run for office, need the backing of on campus institutions - which are almost always limited to fraternities or sororities, etc).

The students I know in the BSU have been quite inspired by the civic activism of Missouri's student body, and it wouldn't surprise me if the issue of race became a central focus on KU's campus over the next few weeks.

Agreed

Ferguson is being brought to Columbia.

Yik Yak is essentially location aware 4-chan.

I think a lot of is Columbia has grown quite a bit. Population has just boomed the last decade. You watch the local news and it seems like there is always a shooting. And 99.9% of the time its hood trash.

Columbia used to such a great town. Your news is disappointing.

Columbia got ruined by Hurricane Katrina.

Well, no need to waste a bad season.

Hop on the bandwagon:

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We hired Yost and Grinch.

You understand that, his last couple of years in CoMo, Mizzou fans were passing the hat to hire a hit man to take care of Yost, right?

*shrug* He is working out just fine out on the Palouse. Maybe the problem is with the program and not the coach.

From what I can tell the O-line have been on strike for many weeks.

So if the dude gets fired for not being outraged enough, will these children actually start playing? IOW, might we see a decent showing from the football and basketball teams, or will they still suck at their given trade?

Curators meeting tomorrow. Wonder what it's about?

http://www.umsystem.edu/ums/news/pub..._public_notice

Fat chance they miss out on a Arrowhead pay day.

They dump the president since they have a way to do it with cause.

Also that other thread is an aids dumpster fire. "Don't know shit about what's been going on there but damn those black people sure are uppity"

Prolly figuring out how much either decision is going to cost them.

It was invaded by the CPP crowd...

firing the president over something as stupid as this can cause problem in the near future for not only mizzou, but universities across the country.

you're firing a guy who worked his ass off to get where he's at today because one or two guys who he was not responsible for said something racist.

/facepalm

You're firing the guy because the campus is a hotbes of angry people and he's lazy plus disconnected.

This situation is just the kicker.

Don't really feel bad for university administrators. They are overpaid for what they "do" typically and there's too many of them.

You had the university yank health insurance for graduates with almost no notice and tuition waivers for those that work.

Student body president was called a ****er, which got a late half-assed response many days after by bowtie.

The Legion of Black Collegians were called ****ers while organizing a protest.

The driver for the president bumped the two protestors after revving his engine. Can't imagine why they don't want to negotiate.

Mix in jokes of black people and food stamps on YikYak, lead protestor being made to look like a monkey.


Than you got shit like the cotton ball incident and shit smeared swastikas.

That's before mentioning the Chancellor is a dick to the faculty and it's no wonder they are trying to get him removed.

The campus is a total ****ing mess.

That also goes before mentioning that they already had issues not long ago with a former student who wasn't helped by the university after a rape.

You will never stop the yuk yuk crowd regardless of who gets fired

LOL, from what I've read the kids at MIZZOU have WAAAAAAY too much time on their hands!

Well no, but sitting on your hands over non anon situations isn't good. Just goes to further show how bad things really are.

You're long on complaints, but short on explanation of what the President should have done. The campus is far from a mess, unless you're talking about immature protestors.

This seems to a major overreaction to a few isolated incidents.

Has it been confirmed yet that any of the people involved in these alleged incidents were students at Mizzou?

If they aren't students, what exactly is the University's administration supposed to do?

Yeah I don't understand how this is a university problem.

A guy in a white truck with a confederate flag yells at you & how is that the university's problem?

President announcing his resignation now....

For those in Columbia or in touch with the University...is Pinkel in any hot water for his tweet and stance?

Not that I think he should be, I just saw that and thought oh boy he's going to piss some people off now...

I'm not even sure we know there was a guy in a white truck with a confederate flag. It's certainly possible, but it's also possible that some of these anecdotes are more aspirational than real.

Well, Wolfe officially resigned.

He has to stand with the players otherwise no recruit in the nation would go there.

I assume the Mizzou administration would understand that, but as we've seen it usually takes them a while to understand a situation and know how to respond to it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MizzouHungerStrike?src=hash">#MizzouHungerStrike</a> is officially over!</p>&mdash; JB. (@_JonathanButler) <a href="https://twitter.com/_JonathanButler/status/663757088749846528">November 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
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I agree, I was looking more like from boosters...anonymous power brokers, etc. that possibly had Wolfe's back.

I completely agree with GP's stance but I just was curious if he had ruffled any feathers with people that necessarily didn't agree with him or tried to sweep this all under a rug.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Two <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mizzou?src=hash">#Mizzou</a> football players have told me the team will practice tomorrow and play this weekend against BYU</p>&mdash; Gabe DeArmond (@GabeDeArmond) <a href="https://twitter.com/GabeDeArmond/status/663759813856350208">November 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
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@chickenandwaffles

Zing!

The same power brokers and boosters that wanted to hire Kim Anderson? Not sure they are any more aware of the real world.

I can't believe he just quit.

Next up, the football players demand that they be consulted on future campus hirings.

Really wish the kids would have come together like this after Pinkel's DUI. Instead we just keep extending the idiot

You don't want the students to be in charge anymore than the players should be in charge in the NFL.

It's just not a good thing.

:facepalm:

If he didn't resign, then they should have fired him. He obviously had no clue what the mood was of the students of his university. Was there a response from his office in regards to any of these incidents?

He depends on luring black athletes. What's he supposed to do?

What's your solution?

apparently you know about it all so why are you asking?


maybe stuff was wrong or maybe it was stuff the president couldn't control

I don't know

We'll see how the football team handles their new found power.

Sending a message to the students that the University condemns racism and that there is a zero tolerance policy for it was out of his control?

It's not that complicated and instead he chose to bury his head in the sand.

The University should have investigated, made the decision on their own. If they investigate and find that the president screwed, he should be fired. The football team shouldn't decide shit. If they don't show up to game, they get their scholarship pulled and hit the road. Instead MU let the football money dictate what happens.

I have no dog in the fight, i don't give a shit about Misery.

That's a nice, ****ing stupid opinion.

I'm sure they will slay it on the recruiting trail if they pulled that shit.

He had to go. His qualification was being a former exec at IBM (snicker), and running a university like a soulless corporation was a dumb idea.

It was the entire football team and all the coaches. So now what? Pay out a million dollars for principle? Forgo any shot you have at black athletes in every sport? Nobody's going to do that.

The University sent out an Email to ALL University Email accounts the day after the Payton Head incident saying exactly that.

This was a mob and nothing but. 1950 is demanding the instutition of systematic racism after a series of racist incidents that are only about 50% likely to have had anything to do with the student body.

No, he didn't bury his head in the sand. He simply didn't jump high enough for this particular fringe group and one kid that's still pissed off that Mizzou didn't issue a public statement to address Ferguson.

Ghetto U. Parents lining up to send their A students now...

Is it still bullying if it's done by a group?

The president didn't do shit about that incident afaik. It was the Chancellor who responded, many days later.

Thanks for contributing nothing.

Ferguson U. Suit you better? Either way...

Basketball season is right around the bend. Things are looking up for you all.

Okay, neat. Thanks for your nice hot take.

Move along now while the adults talk here.

Apparently he stripped health insurance from graduate students? What the hell? It sounds like this guy was in way over his head and had no clue what he was doing there.

Son the adults of students considering attending there are talking, rest assured. Majority of the others are laughing. B1G breathing a sigh of relief they didn't extend an invite. Looking this with Ferguson? You've been manipulated.This is disgraceful.

If you don't think there are issues like this at a ton of institutions, you should probably euthanize yourself.

Ferguson has basically nothing to do with this or an impact on a decision to attend MU or not. You can leave now.

Former business exec ran MU like a business is what happened.

Emails from greek system to alums are interesting. Already trying to bridge away from this to maintain $$ contributions. Will be interesting to see what happens to the inflow to university is from alums after this.

Can you please identify other schools whose football team has refused to play?
Have you seen the document put out whose opening line references Ferguson?

I'll wait, thanks.

What the football team does has nothing to do with problems on campus.

Don't really give a **** what they put on a document. Ferguson isn't Columbia and is hours away from Columbia.

Jfc you're dense

You and I have very different ideas on the meaning of the word interesting.

So Mike Brown factors into all of this. Fantastic. I very much look forward to the day where that kid isn't viewed as a victim or a hero.

That's Obamacare - not him. Welcome to gov't run healthcare.