So keep delaying everything and it will go away. Sounds familiar these days.
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So no discussion about Fitzgerald?
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If Pollack Halls is your idea of bad dorms you obviously never lived in Nittany. Those truly were army barracks. They were erected as temporary housing for ROTC students during WWII. I spent two terms in them in the late sixties. They did have their advantages. For instance, they were one story and the windows were easy to climb through, as my girlfriend at the time demonstrated out on an almost daily basis.
Barry indicated that no options were presented to the Board and meeting agendas and minutes support this. He's free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Now if you're asking if no options were evaluated despite the 19 or twelve or however many studies that Kraft said were done, that I would believe.
Northwestern to reconsider Fitzgerald's discipline
Northwestern, in a letter sent late Saturday night, announced it will reconsider penalties for longtime Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald after new details emerged surrounding allegations of hazing in the Big Ten school's football program.
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Northwestern to reconsider Fitzgerald's discipline
Northwestern, in a letter sent late Saturday night, announced it will reconsider penalties for longtime Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald after new details emerged surrounding allegations of hazing in the Big Ten school's football program.
Northwestern to reconsider Fitzgerald's discipline
Northwestern, in a letter sent late Saturday night, announced it will reconsider penalties for longtime Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald after new details emerged surrounding allegations of hazing in the Big Ten school's football program.
www.espn.com
Me thinks Pat will not be the coach come Sept 30 when the Nittany Lions play at NW....Northwestern to reconsider Fitzgerald's discipline
Northwestern, in a letter sent late Saturday night, announced it will reconsider penalties for longtime Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald after new details emerged surrounding allegations of hazing in the Big Ten school's football program.
Well, you’d get a free RC soda too if you stay to the end of the game.
Strange that "hazing" which allegedly occurred and sometimes was "initiated" by the coach went on for presumably his entire 17 year tenure and now 2 individuals complained. This "inhumane and cruel" practice continued because? It was in the best interest of recruiting and retaining the best FB players possible. All this is based on 2 anonymous sources.....and perhaps a "staff" member ....not a coach. Color me skeptical. The media had Joe holding down little boys in the shower, while Jerry raped them. It's a sick world. I too now believe that Pat can't survive this. Another good man destroyed.
There was an investigation, which apparently revealed little. A "player's" parent screamed and now NW will reconsider. So I presume getting Fitzgerald fired was the primary objective of the complaint to begin with.......
Fair points. On the flip side, I questioned the quality of the investigation when it amounted to, “Something happened, but we weren’t able to identify individuals who did anything wrong.”
If I understand this correctly, Northwestern hired a third party to conduct a “rigorous”, six-month investigation that did not identify individuals who committed these alleged horrible acts or that any of the coaches were aware of the alleged horrible acts. Then, only after the conclusions of the independent investigation were published, a former player came forward with details. Is that correct?
Wow, this gets better and better. Royal Criown Cola! Sign me up.
Well, if the goal was to put an end to "hazing...." and then file the obligatory civil suit, chapter one would have sufficed.
A parent who isn't satisfied with that outcome, is IMO connected with someone or group who wants the coach fired.
See, we don't assassinate people anymore. Too messy....blood and all. We accuse people of indiscretions that they can't protect themselves from. Women come from 40 years in the past......children 30 years etc. We make wild allegations on the floor of congress where no falsehood is punished by statute.
Sounds to me like Fitz knew......and Joe knew. I agree he's done. The goal of someone or group was to get him fired with cause.
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Apparently that was money well spent in the investigation. The initial results leads one to suspect that the investigation was conducted by the famous French detective Inspector Clouseau.
have been inclined to give Fitz the benefit of the doubt and 'hazing' could mean all sorts of things. ESPN's update as to the allegations sure seem to indicate that Fitz is in an uphill battle here. https://saturdaytradition.com/north...-hazing-scandal-new-troubling-details-emerge/
A Louis Freeh investigation would make every effort to produce the desired results.
Funny ESPN was fair to Joe.
FITZ had a very good reputation. This is the man bites dog that media scum pray for. Consequently, he's a dead man walking....
My understanding is that two unidentified former players and their parents made accusations that prompted the inquiry. The parents were unhappy with the findings and the punishment meted out.so they went directly to selected media types.
The push is on for stronger penalties and possible job loss.
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Report: Northwestern Player Details Alleged Hazing By Teammates, Including Sexual Assault
Update: President of Northwestern University, Michael Schill, admitted "He may have erred in weighing the appropriate sanction" regarding the 2-week
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I guess its good that Jonathon Sutherland didn't go to Northwestern.
Fitzgerald would ask Black players and coaches to alter their hairstyles, including dreadlocks, to fit the “Wildcat Way.”
Fitzgerald would ask Black players and coaches to alter their hairstyles, including dreadlocks, to fit the “Wildcat Way.”
The push is on for stronger penalties and possible job loss.
Report: Northwestern Player Details Alleged Hazing By Teammates, Including Sexual Assault
Update: President of Northwestern University, Michael Schill, admitted "He may have erred in weighing the appropriate sanction" regarding the 2-week
Tic, tock, tic, tock guilty or innocent (and I honestly don’t know which) but the hounds
now have him treed. He is now officially a dead man walking.
So he was 2 years into a 10 year contract, went 1-11 last season and Northwestern won't have to pay his buyout. 
Why?So he was 2 years into a 10 year contract, went 1-11 last season and Northwestern won't have to pay his buyout.
So he was 2 years into a 10 year contract, went 1-11 last season and Northwestern won't have to pay his buyout.
Very strange. On Saturday evening, the Northwestern president published a letter stating that he would be reconsidering the appropriate punishment for Fitzgerald. Two weeks without pay was based on the notion that Fitzgerald didn’t know about the hazing. The president was going to consider a harsher punishment with consideration that Fitzgerald should have known.
I wonder if some well-heeled donors influenced the president. Maybe Fitzgerald had lost their support (1-11 record last year) and this hazing scandal, real or not, was all they needed to get him out. The real scary part is if the scandal was fabricated, or at least exaggerated, to get him canned. As discussed earlier in this thread, expectations at Northwestern are changing in light of their facility expenditures.
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I believe one of the former players went to the student newspaper anonymously and spilled the beans on what the allegations were and had pictures on a white board proving Fitz knew.
And if I keep my tin-foil hat on, it is interesting that the dirt only came out after the suspension without pay was announced. The “investigation” found basically nothing of substance.
This incident is very bad for Northwestern on multiple levels.