COLUMBIA, Mo. • Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel will resign at the end of the 2015 season, the Post-Dispatch reported Friday and was later confirmed by the school. Pinkel was diagnosed with a form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer in May and underwent multiple treatments in May and June, the school announced.
Pinkel, 63, will stay on as coach through Dec. 31 or until the school hires his replacement.
“I made the decision in May, after visiting with my family, that I wanted to keep coaching, as long as I felt good and had the energy I needed,” Pinkel said in a prepared statement.