Missouri Tigers football coach Gary Pinkel will resign after the 2015 season due to health reasons, the school announced on Friday.
Pinkel was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer of the blood in May, and returned to coach the Tigers this fall after doctors said his treatments would not interfere with his coaching.
“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 statement. “I felt great going into the season, but also knew that I would need to re-assess things at some point, and I set our bye week as the time when I would take stock of the future.