Northwestern's Pat Fitzgerald given a PERMANENT vacation for hazing

outofyourmind said:
You go 1-11 last year.
You're 99th in all time wins.
You have 100 more loses than wins all time.

Who the fuck wants to Coach that shit.
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the Northwestern job literally killed Fitzgerald's predecessor

candidates need to be warned about the dangers of this job ahead of time
 
osubuckeye89 said:
I honestly don't think Hartline will ever leave OSU. Unless like a big time job maybe came calling. He aint leaving for fucking Northwestern though.
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Yeah, a lot of assistants at schools like tOSU won't take jobs that aren't able to attract the same talent level they are used to having. Assistant gigs at those schools are better than head coaching jobs at others.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
It's nice of you to gave Alabama students the benefit of the doubt that they can read/write.
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tom hanks alabama GIF
 
That's tough.
Right before the season starts.

Wonder if any players have hit the portal
 
Baseball coach also fired, but just because he was a giant asshole to everyone.
 
Not that NW was going to be anything but bad again this year anyway, but now their coach is a guy who's highest previous position was DC at a FCS school. Gonna go real well!
 
More from new article "How a Hazing Culture Evolved at Northwestern's Camp Kenosha: 'There's a Significance to Ritual'":

The Athletic said:
the "flying squirrel," in which a naked player would pull apart the skin of his scrotum to resemble wings. Or offensive linemen doing naked cartwheels around the locker room
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The Athletic said:
Another player, a freshman when Fitzgerald was a senior in 1996, recalls a group of offensive linemen calling themselves “The Sisters.” According to this player, “The Sisters” were regularly nude in the locker room
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The Athletic said:
a decidedly problematic tradition began: the loofah line. When practice ended in Kenosha, Lamitte remembers the offensive linemen would race back up the hill and into the showers, lather themselves with soap and line up at the only entrance to the showers. Four or five per side, in a space about the width of an average door frame. They would remain there and force underclassmen to squeeze past to get into the shower area. "It was absolutely disgusting," Lamitte says.
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The Athletic said:
On Aug. 3, 2001, senior safety Rashidi Wheeler was among dozens in attendance for a Northwestern football preseason conditioning test on campus. Official team activities had not begun. Staff members recorded the tests, contravening NCAA rules for voluntary workouts. During the grueling sets of sprints, Wheeler collapsed. A trainer administered CPR until local paramedics arrived, but Wheeler could not be revived. He died at 22 of exercise-induced asthma, according to autopsies, and after years of litigation a judge ordered the Wheeler family to accept a $16 million wrongful death settlement from the school.
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A player dying during a workout in which rules were broken could have been a tornado siren-level alarm for administrators to consider a coaching change. It might’ve been a window into the Randy Walker era, in which players did 100 squats at body weight for being one minute late to a meeting, according to Braden Jones, the former Northwestern linebacker. Lamitte, a teammate of Jones’, says he witnessed two players “(defecating) on themselves” because Walker made them do post-practice drills in sweltering heat. Instead, Walker remained head coach until he suffered a heart attack and died in June 2006.
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One of those players says he experienced it as a freshman; he says he was in his dorm at Kenosha when a group of four or five upperclassmen walked in unexpectedly, flipped him onto his back, held him to the ground and thrust their hips on top of him, one or two at a time.
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The Athletic said:
Players say Northwestern assistants would be called on for naked pull-ups if they passed through the Kenosha changing room, only to smile and laugh and continue on their way. Two players remember the team chanting naked pull-ups at Fitzgerald himself. Former Northwestern player Lloyd Yates alleged during a news conference on Wednesday that hazing “was so entrenched in our culture that even some of our coaches took part in it.”
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