Northwestern has suspended football coach Pat Fitzgerald for two weeks without pay after an investigation into the program’s hazing allegations, ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg reports. Besides the suspension, Northwestern has also canceled off-campus practices in Kenosha, Wis. and are sending someone who is not part of Fitzgerald’s staff to monitor the locker room.
In January, after the 2022 season, Rittenberg first reported that Northwestern was opening an investigation into hazing allegations. The investigation reportedly confirmed the whistleblower’s claim that there were hazing incidents in the locker room that may have started when the team practiced in Kenosha, which the program did for a week each summer up until 2020.
Coach Pat Fitzgerald will serve a two-week, unpaid suspension beginning today and other measures have been implemented, including no more off-campus practices in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where the team trained in August for years.
— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) July 7, 2023
