College Athletes, Non-Athletes Should Learn From Missouri

Less than 24 hours after University of Missouri football head coach Gary Pinkel tweeted support for the #ConcernedStudent1950 efforts at Mizzou, President Tim Wolfe resigned. Cynics would point to simple math as the reason for Wolfe's departure. Missouri football generated $35.64 million in 2014. Pinkel, Missouri's highest paid state employee, earned $3.76 million in the same year. Failure to play against Brigham Young University would have forced Mizzou to fork over $1 million to the BYU athletic department per contract details. The numbers would suggest that Wolfe had to go. But what happened at Mizzou goes beyond the economics of college football.
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