Director of UT’s Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation Discusses What Happens Now after Missouri
By Jenae Steele
Preceded by a hunger strike and the various on campus protests, more than 30 of the black football players at the University of Missouri shocked the nation by refusing to practice or play unless the University President resigned. If Mizzou had forfeited the game against BYU that following weekend it would have cost the university $1 million. However, two days after the players’ boycott and a day after their coach confirmed that the athletic staff and team backed their pr