It’s only going to get worse.

He must have the goods on somebody. If that crap had occurred at just about any other NWern sport, or with the band, or with a frat or sorority, you can be damn sure that heads would be rolling into the lake.

Unfortunately, just the record at northwestern is not an indication of how good a coach is compared to other coaches in the country. I’m guessing other academically tough schools like Stanford and ND have done a lot better than NW. how’s he done lately? Is that something to be proud of?

With that bunch of losing records, maybe they should have dropped football like the University of Chicago did years ago.

Well, he did lose to Miami a few years ago! ;-)

You are correct. I thought that the loss to the Redchickens was two years ago, but it was just last year.

[Trivia question: Late in the last century, before Fitzgerald was the coach, one year when NW won the Big Ten and had an otherwise unblemished regular season record, their lone loss was to Miami. So, the NW snobs have a habit of losing the Buckeye State's snob school. Can anyone name the year without engaging in an internet search?]

I liken this investigation to that at Iowa recently. They want to keep the coach regardless of how egregious Their conduct. Don’t fully understand why.
And the ENTIRE football team just came out in support of the coach and the culture! (Apparently not the accusers )

And the President at NW now says he’s going to look at the situation again (after talking to the accuser and his family)

Several. Check out ESPN website

It was 1995. Notre Dame had made solo TV deal with NBC just a few years prior. ND alum Joe Montana had just retired and was in his first game as studio analyst. Montana's pregame analysis was that Notre Dame was likely to be one of the best teams in the country and Northwestern the worst team in the Big Ten. The result was a very surprising upset that was more surprising than if Indiana beat Ohio State in week 1 in a couple of months. Montana had to eat crow after the game which he did pretty graciously. Everyone wondered if this was just a massive upset, or if Northwestern was much better than expected or if Notre Dame was much worse, or a combination of these. When Miami, who lost their opener to Ball State, beat Northwestern, who was now in the top 25, in their next game college football thought it had its answer. But then some more things nobody expected happened:

Northwestern ran the table until the Rose Bowl and won the Big Ten and ended up 10-2 with losses to Miami and USC and ranked #8 in the AP. They had one of the best defenses in the country that was led by Pat Fitzgerald.

Miami went 8-2-1 with losses to Ball State, Michigan and a tie against otherwise perfect 10-0-1 Toledo. There were a lot fewer bowl games then but as happened several times in the 90's to early 2000's Miami got passed over for a bowl to the benefit of teams with obviously lesser resumes but higher name recognition. Miami was probably the poster child for the call to create more bowls because, after all, I guess more deserving lesser known teams getting a bowl ahead of .500 P5 teams wasn't considered a possible option.

Notre Dame's only other losses that year were to Ohio State and then Florida State in the Orange Bowl. They finished ranked #11.

You might be thinking that with all these other losses among these teams to teams that were among the best in the country that Ball State must have been pretty good too. They were pretty good for a MAC team and did finish third. They lost to two lower division Big Ten teams in Purdue and Minnesota as well as Toledo and EMU to finish 7-4 (6-2). They were OK but their win over Miami turned out to be the game that was probably the biggest upset in all of that.

I did know the year off the top of my head because I knew it was the same year Nebraska made an argument for the best team of all time. A lot of that was from memory but obviously once I got going I had to look up who the specific teams some of the losses were to and the final rankings. I don't want you to think I remembered all of that.

Ohio went 2-8-1 in Jim Grobe's first season. We can also note this as the last year of the dark age and the last year Ohio had the paw as a logo.

Better, check the Northwestern STUDENT newspaper who uncovered more of the investigation than anyone else has.

Another player from all the way back in 2007 said there was hazing back then too, so this has been going on for a while, pretty much since Fitzgerald started his tenure.

And now 3 more players coming forward supporting the hazing claims and adding racist claims as well. This could get really interesting.

He has now been fired. I doubt anyone will hire him, at least, not for a number of years.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/northwest... /