Gary Pinkel is resigning from his post as Missouri Tigers football coach for health reasons.
Pinkel was diagnosed in May 2015 with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the school said on its website.
He will coach the rest of the season through Dec. 31 unless a new coach is found.
I made the decision in May, after visiting with my family, that I wanted to keep coaching, as long as I felt good and had the energy I needed,” Pinkel said in the statement. “I felt great going into the season, but also knew that I would need to re-assess things at some point, and I set our bye week as the time when I would take stock of the future.”
The news comes four days after Missouri’s president, Tim Wolfe, resigned amid campus-based protests calling for his ouster as controversy swelled over allegations the school hadn’t done enough to address a culture of apparent racism.
The school chose an interim replacement, Michael Middleton, on Thursday.
The announcement also follows a threatened boycott by some of Pinkel’s players of Saturday’s game against BYU over the racial strife. The threat was rescinded after Wolfe’s resignation.
Information from Espn.com contributed to this report.
