Missouri players stand arm-in-arm as they protest university system president Tim Wolfe.

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 The threat was rescinded after Wolfe’s resignation.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.

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