Oh Northwestern. You're not a Football School!

Better to be losers on the field than in the game of life:

Pat Fitzgerald’s coaching future in question after details of hazing incidents are revealed in Northwestern’s student newspaper 

By Paul Sullivan Chicago Tribune • Jul 08, 2023 at 6:46 pm

Northwestern begins its 2023 football season Sept. 3 at Rutgers.  Whether Pat Fitzgerald will be on the sideline for the Wildcats’ opener was the subject of intense speculation Saturday after disturbing new details of the hazing incidents that led to an outside investigation and two-week suspension without pay for the veteran coach.  

The explosive report in the student newspaper, The Daily Northwestern, detailed a former player’s account of the incidents.  The former player described a practice called “running” in which primarily freshman players were punished for on-field mistakes by getting restrained in a dark locker room by eight to 10 upperclassmen wearing masks who would “dry hump” the younger player. 

A second player confirmed those details to the paper.  

Northwestern announced Fitzgerald’s suspension Friday while releasing an executive summary of external investigator Maggie Hickey’s findings. The summary did not include details of the hazing but said Hickey found evidence to confirm an anonymous whistleblower’s report of the incidents.  

In an email response to a Tribune inquiry about Saturday’s Daily Northwestern report, university spokesman Jon Yates said: “Our first priority is to support and protect our students, including the young man who brought these matters to our attention and all student-athletes who had the courage to come forward in this independent investigation.

Lot of journalists still at that school, with a natural curiosity of what is happening around them and in the world.  They're young, so still inclined to want to know the truth.  This is pretty much bred out of the profession at the higher levels now:  the daughters and sons of the rich got where they got by not making waves but making names for themselves.  Truth kinda gets lost in the mix.  Glad it didn't hear...

Dry humping as discipline?  Really, what were they thinking... #KeepEmHonest