Jim O'Donnell: While Northwestern is being battered, Fitzgerald should be screaming his innocence

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Jim O'Donnell: While Northwestern is being battered, Fitzgerald should be screaming his innocence
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Northwestern University is under growing siege as reports of systemic hazing aimed at former student-athletes mount. Its athletic department is on the cusp of multigenerational disgrace and diminishment. So too is the reputation of the school. Against that stark backdrop, dismissed head football coach Pat Fitzgerald remains demonstrably guilty of nothing.

Northwestern University is under growing siege as reports of systemic hazing aimed at former student-athletes mount.

But currently, he is Josef K. in Franz Kafka's"The Trial." That is a man in a legal netherworld, charged with nothing but forced to traverse a bizarre gauntlet by arbitrary"authority." Crump said that the two-firm attack already has 15 student-athletes claiming foul in three separate athletic programs at NU -- football, baseball and softball.

ONE POINT THAT LEVIN EMPHASIZED was that stumblebum Northwestern president Michael Schill -- one of the greatest disasters in the history of the proud university -- has yet to release the full contents of The Hickey Report. He fired Fitzgerald three days after announcing a two-week suspension over the hazing allegations. His mid-weekend turnabout was purportedly influenced by instant student reporting in the school newspaper that lacked balance.

THE BIGGEST HOLE IN ANY COUNTER OFFENSIVE by Fitzgerald remains the fact that he and lead attorney Dan Webb have yet to vociferously contextualize his role in any of the expanding charges against the NU athletic department.

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