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BenFred: Could Tigers' boycott have ripple effect?

News of the Missouri football team's boycott became national news as fast as a tweet enters cyberspace.

Skipping one practice accomplished the Tigers' mission.

That quickly, the pressure they created forced UM system president Timothy M. Wolfe to resign, which accomplished the goal of Concerned Student 1950 activist Jonathan Butler's hunger strike.

The Tigers missed just one practice before returning their attention to playing BYU on Saturday in Kansas City. Mizzou continues to attempt to figure out what comes next. Meanwhile every coach and athletic director in the country has to be wondering: Could this happen at my school?