President and Chancellor of the University of Missouri both resigned, under fire from Black Lives Matter activists. RealClearPolitics links to two articles about it, the Breitbart piece explains how the protestors were jerks, undoubtedly both true and very intentional.
The article in The Atlantic explains why the university leadership couldn't tough it out: the issue was money. With half the football team refusing to play, a contract between Missouri and the team they were to play on Saturday - BYU - specified if either team forfeited they must pay the other school a million dollars.
Missouri has two more games scheduled after BYU, meaning cancellation fines could have totaled $3 million. Also understand Missouri's football coach makes 9 times the salary its president makes. Instead of a university with a football team, the University of Missouri should be more properly thought of as a football team with a collegiate subsidiary. Whatever interferes with football cannot be permitted to persist, there is too much money at stake.
