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College football players find economic power. Now what?

Whoa. What just happened?

That might have been the question in the minds of college football players, coaches, university presidents, sponsors and business backers all over the nation when the University of Missouri’s president resigned.

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Former University of Georgia football coach and athletic director Vince Dooley, shown at a recent Falcons game with his wife Barbara

He left just two days after more than 30 of the school’s football players announced they would boycott games unless he was ousted for not taking meaningful steps to address concerns about racism on campus.