Gary Pinkel is Missouri football.
Gary Pinkel was Missouri football? No. Not yet. The impact the Tigers coach has had over the past decade and a half is too great for him to be reduced to the past tense so quickly—not when he has three games left to coach, not when the mark he’s made on his program over the past 15 seasons will endure for years, if not decades.
On Friday afternoon, Missouri announced that Pinkel will resign at the end of 2015. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in May and had kept his condition secret in the months since, but after consulting with physicians and family after the team’s Oct.