After Missouri eked out a 20-16 win over BYU on Saturday, coach Gary Pinkel took to the locker room for a passionate postgame speech.
‘I’m overwhelmed.’ You have to watch Gary Pinkel’s locker room speech after Mizzou beat BYU
The win caps a long week for Missouri players.
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EXCLUSIVE: Watch @GaryPinkel's emotional post-game speech in the locker room after @MizzouFootball's win over BYU https://t.co/COf3u1vu3S
— Mizzou Network (@MizzouNetwork) November 15, 2015 Guys, what a week. Look what you did. You overcame all that stuff, and then yesterday, the things I was forced to [announce] that we were we gonna do Sunday, because it got out, which broke my heart.
And you focused through all that crap, and you made a great statement: we're a great team, and we're a great family, and when things get tough — and they were really frickin' tough — we frickin' battled. And every guy out there battled. The offense did, the defense did, the coaches did, kicking people did, everybody did. And that's how you win big games like that.
So, I'm proud as hell. I mean, I'm just — I'm overwhelmed.
Missouri's week was well documented in advance of Saturday's game, with an initial player boycott bookended by the Friday announcement of Pinkel's resignation at the end of the year due to health issues.
After the win, fans in Arrowhead Stadium chanted Pinkel's name, and then his players crashed his TV interview for a dance party (via SEC Network):
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