He went to the B1G championship game in 2018 and to the Music City Bowl in 2017. Even a stellar record would not have excused his behavior on this hazing fiasco.
What's up with all these Big 10 schools? Coaches, dark rooms with masks, animals, little children? Are the women that bad up there lol?
I agree there is no way Fitzgerald did not know. Coaches that continue to try denying stuff going on has gone on long enough.
I have one question: The school fired the HC even though it went against the results of the independent investigation they brought forth. Okay, no problem. So why wasn’t the entire coaching staff fired too?? They were all oblivious to the alleged hazing environment within the program? If one has to go, they should all have to go, imho. Northwestern will retain assistant football coaches for 2023 season in wake of Pat Fitzgerald's firing
That’s crazy. What tge hell is sexualised behavior anyway? Sounds like the gimp scene from Pulp Fiction
Was just coming to post this. I think I read 5 of them are new this year, so maybe those could stay but agree I think the rest have to go
That is the question that I would like to have an answer to. At Penn State, you had ONE serial sex offender doing disgusting things, which people at the University covered up. This is different. At Northwestern, if I am to believe these news reports, the team, or a large part of the team, engaged in some "sexualized" hazing of freshmen. What is "sexualized" hazing, and why would many of the team members join in doing something that is perverted and abusive, or stand around and watch? Are college football players a bunch of rapists and perverts? Forgive me if I believe little of what I read in the American news media, particularly when common sense tells me that what I am being told doesn't pass the smell test. People that don't question what our media outlets tell us these days are fools. I'll wait for the response from the coach, and from these "perverted" players, which will surely be coming. Prediction: coach gets a big "hush hush buyout" and players, their families, and their lawyers weigh in.
I think they may feel it's too hard to replace the entire staff in less than a month. Keeping the assistants may be a stop gap solution and the new coach will come in and clean house.
Some weird shit happens in some of these ultra masculine environments. Sports teams, military, frat houses…. Of course, not all of them, but there are definitely some toxic corners in all of these cultures where some weird and disgusting shit goes on. I’ve heard some weird stories that I wish I’d never heard, and glad I was never a part of. The popped collar douchey looking coach definitely fits the bill for some of the guys I’ve heard telling these stories.
This is definitely not the first time we’ve heard of some gross sexual hazing type antics coming out of an environment where mischievous males run around charged up on testosterone while whoever is in charge turns a blind eye to it. And I don’t know what the media would gain by concocting a plan to bring down the almighty Northwestern football program.
You don't have to believe the media, you can then choose to believe the outside investigation NU had performed that spent months looking into the allegations and found them to be supported by evidence (but also concluded there was no evidence the coach knew what was going on). You don't have to wait for the players to speak out, they already did in this letter (which is a logical disaster when you break it down):
Nothing bad happened, but even if something bad did happen, our coach didn't know. We swear. Signed, The ENTIRE rolleyes Northwestern Football Team
The coach had no knowledge of "alleged incidents" that didn't happen. I think that would have been worded differently if they really hadn't happened.... Just sayin'...
