On Monday night, Northwestern University fired Pat Fitzgerald, who had been head coach since 2006, effective immediately, citing widespread hazing within the football program.
Over the course of the hazing investigation, nearly a dozen Wildcat football players said the issue was "systemic dating back many years," and included "forced participation, nudity, and sexualized act of a degrading nature."
"The idea was, just like you think of a car wash. You were being clean. But people's genitals were out. It wasn't something you want to watch others go through and then having to do it yourself," he said.
"If position coaches are witnessing this stuff, and they're not saying anything, then they kind of enable other position coaches to make it seem like it's OK to use this type of coaching methodology and these practices. So that's where I am at with it all overall is just the accountability on the coaches," he said."I had the privilege of serving as the Head Football Coach at Northwestern University for the past 17 years.
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