Even for Missouri's standards, the past week has been unlike anything the university has experienced in a long time. Maybe ever.
On Monday, university President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin resigned in the wake of long-standing, on-campus racial tensions culminating in the hunger strike of student Jonathan Butler. The resignation announcements came one day after the university's football team showed support for a student group, #ConcernedStudent1950, protesting Wolfe's inaction toward racial unrest on campus.
The lasting image of that motion of support was a tweet sent out by head coach Gary Pinkel:
The Mizzou Family stands as one.