Northwestern Football Hazing/Pat Fitzgerald Let Go

[ColinKSU]

Tommy Rees time

That would be - by a WIDE margin - the funniest thing that could happen.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Tommy Rees time

That would be - by a WIDE margin - the funniest thing that could happen.

They are going to need to hire from as far outside as possible. Tommy was there in 2015. What did he see and what did he know?

NU has to clean house. Completely. No purple strings on this.

 

[Me2SouthBend]

What the hell is with these Big Ten schools (Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern) and their weirdo sex abuse scandals?

You forgot about Ohio State and Gym Jordan and the wrestling team.

 

[NorthDakota]

Was never in a frat, but up here my hockey teams followed ABN (anything but needles) and no pants off. Alcohol poisoning was the norm but we never had the urge to hump each other. Knew of some teams that did some pants off stuff, but it would get corrected pretty quickly after chirping them on the ice.

We didn't do hazing really in high school, assuming this is upperclassmen harassing underclassmen. We did some iffy things but even as an underclassmen it never really bothered me too much.

But...Fitzgerald gone!

 

[dublinirish]

Tommy Rees time

Bring him home


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[stlnd01]

Wow. Brutal timing for something like this, good luck finding a coach right now to step into what’s a tough job under good circumstances.
But yeah no way Fitz survived what came out in the last day or two.

 

[SeekNDestroy]

Anybody on the team that can play is gonna get poached. Who are we going after?

 

[NorthDakota]

You forgot about Ohio State and Gym Jordan and the wrestling team.

I'd be skeptical of this without further investigation. Regardless of political affiliation, that story has been going around for years and if valid would sink a house rep. The mainstream media would go rather deep into it.

 

[GrangerIrish24]

Anybody on the team that can play is gonna get poached. Who are we going after?

Fitzgerald as DC

 

[NorthDakota]

Anybody on the team that can play is gonna get poached. Who are we going after?

Last Northwestern guy we got checked out real quick. Hopefully something better than that this time around.

 

[Irish4life]

Wow. Brutal timing for something like this, good luck finding a coach right now to step into what’s a tough job under good circumstances.
But yeah no way Fitz survived what came out in the last day or two.

Probably an interim and then a new HC in the off-season. My guess: Tommy Rees takes it

 

[stlnd01]

Probably an interim and then a new HC in the off-season. My guess: Tommy Rees takes it

If Rees does well at Bama this season, all involved could do worse.

The trouble with an interim who’s there now is really the whole staff would be implicated in this, at some level.

 

[greyhammer90]

The second this broke I knew the NW journalist would turn this into a "what courage we have to report on our own Alma mater" masturbatory exercise.

 

[Voltaire]

Well hey look, the Northwestern scandal managed to somehow GET WORSE. Some pretty awful allegations of racism here.

Former NU players describe racist environment in football program

Three former Northwestern football players described a “culture of enabling racism” to The Daily, recalling multiple racist actions and remarks from both coaching staff and players. All three players, who played for the team in late 2000s, also corroborated some of the hazing allegations...

dailynorthwestern.com

“There was a certain culture of enabling ... microaggressions that I had to experience,” the second player said.

We are doomed as a society that we take seriously the opinions of people who unironically use the term "microaggression."

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Tommy Rees is going to have to be vetted like no tomorrow if he's going to be hired there. He was a part of that program for one season as a GA.

 

[greyhammer90]

I know everyone's just joking around but I cannot imagine that Rees would actually accept that job. Yes it's good to be a HC but is your goal to get paid and hang out in Chicago or be an NFL OC?

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

The second this broke I knew the NW journalist would turn this into a "what courage we have to report on our own Alma mater" masturbatory exercise.

Dan Bernstein went to Duke.

I don't understand the hardon for NU journalists here. Can someone explain it to me please. Some sort of "they all hate ND" thing or something?

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

I know everyone's just joking around but I cannot imagine that Rees would actually accept that job. Yes it's good to be a HC but is your goal to get paid and hang out in Chicago or be a ln NFL OC?

This is a very fair point. After Ara, nobody was a winner there until Parseghian.

Why Rees would want this to be his first HC job and have to do all of the clean up is beyond me. It's a mad rush to conclusion within literal minutes of Fitzgerald being let go. Maybe pump the breaks on that theory a bit. They probably want to consider making a hire similar to what Stanford just did.

 

[IrishLax]

Why is all the hazing so gay? Is that normal for hazing?

 

[greyhammer90]

Dan Bernstein went to Duke.

I don't understand the hardon for NU journalists here. Can someone explain it to me please. Some sort of "they all hate ND" thing or something?

Good call out. My mistake. Seeing it from Stewart Mandell and figured this guy was in on the schtick as well.

 

[NDPhilly]

Man their '24 class sucks. Not a single guy I think we'd even look at. maybe Jamir Benjamin but he's like the opposite of what Freeman / Mickens like in their CBs.

 

[FDNYIrish1]

No way they take Tommy Rees. He bullied Pyne and cursed on national TV in what was a huge macroaggression. Between that episode and his height Pyne will definitely claim PTSD in the near future.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Good call out. My mistake. Seeing it from Stewart Mandell and figured this guy was in on the schtick as well.

Dan Bernstein was at Duke when Coach K first got there. While everyone thought he was a national treasure after he won back to back titles in 91 and 92, Bernstein was telling listeners back then what a prick the guy was when nobody was around. Especially to the campus journalists over the years.

When the 1999 sexual assault allegation came up in 2019, none of it surprised people like Bernstein who were around Duke in the pre-internet era who experienced Coach K and what he was like when the national media wasn't around.

 

[MacIrish75]

Anybody on the team that can play is gonna get poached. Who are we going after?

Paging @NDWarrior…

 

[IrishLax]

I feel like this was a missed NIL opportunity for Northwestern with Dreamworks and Grindr.

 

[Grahambo]

Why is all the hazing so gay? Is that normal for hazing?

No clue but hazing is one of the dumbest things around.

 

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Why is all the hazing so gay? Is that normal for hazing?

It’s the most demeaning thing they can think of.

 

[CANONIZEFATHERSORIN]

It’s the most demeaning thing they can think of.

Well that and because football locker rooms, like all hyper macho environments, can get incredibly homoerotic. But obviously there is a line, and dick jokes and even slapping asses are on one side of that line, and I think forcing players to strip naked and do naked activities with other naked players geared towards sexual humiliation are on another side of that line.

 

[TheRealLynch51]

Why is all the hazing so gay? Is that normal for hazing?

Cuz nothing's more fucking alpha and manly as making young men do really gay shit. I mean, how else could you prove how not gay you are by doing gay things and not turning gay!?