True but we all know that it’s because he signed a 10 year contract and the President and boosters had buyers remorse and found a way out more than anything discovered in the investigation.
Supposed reason: Hazing
All you have done is to widen the pool of potential people whose heads need to be examined.
Not to mention let’s keep all the assistant coaches around, some of which likely had more knowledge than the head coach of these hazings while pretending to deal with the problem.
That part seems very strange to me. They are trying to make a statement on the one hand and keep everything together on the other. Seems like a fool's errand to me. How could that many guys not have known?
Pat Fitzgerald played on the Northwestern Big Ten championship and Rose bowl team so he does bleed purple and he is truly one of them. In the last five seasons, Northwestern has played in two Big Ten championships games, so I would imagine it would make some of the fan base angry to see Fitzgerald dismissed.
Eventually Northwestern will clean house, but If they did it right now then I think they would have to forfeit the football season.
With all the lawsuits being filed now — and hundreds more in the works, Northwestern may as well shut down its athletic programs. This case will also be the start of numerous other university athletic departments under lawsuit siege. If NIL didn’t kill college athletics, this stuff is sure to be the final nail in the coffin. It’s just too risky to be in the business of college athletics.
