Option Football

You quit or we don’t play. That is essentially what dozens of players on the University of Missouri football team told the president of the university. They had lost four straight games, five of their last six, including a 31-13 home loss to Mississippi State on Saturday night. But they won this one, with the New York Times reporting that

Amid a wave of student and faculty protests, primarily over racial tensions, that all but paralyzed its flagship campus … the president of the University of Missouri system resigned Monday, urging everyone involved to “use my resignation to heal and start talking again.”

Racial tensions at the university had been escalating for weeks and