COLUMBIA, Mo. • After an awkward interview Tuesday that might have cast more criticism on his handling of the last few days, Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel struck a more composed tone on Wednesday’s SEC teleconference and showed a better understanding of Mizzou’s troubled campus.
Late Tuesday night, rumors and unfounded reports of violence spread on social media, including a warning from Mizzou’s student body president claiming the Ku Klux Klan was on campus. (Payton Head, the MSA president, later apologized for his inaccurate Facebook post.) According to the school’s emergency information center, there were no immediate threats found on campus, though on Wednesday morning, MU police arrested a 19-year-old Rolla student on suspicion of making a terrorist threat on social media site Yik Yak.