Pads will pop, spirals will fly, formations will be taught and the first plays will be run Thursday as Northwestern’s football team opens its preseason training camp in Evanston.
There will be no whistle around Pat Fitzgerald’s neck, the longtime coach having been fired amid a hazing scandal heard ’round the college sports world. There will be no Camp Kenosha, that annual north-of-the-Wisconsin-border tradition having been jettisoned as part of the university’s effort to get its arms around a hazing problem and quiet a storm of criticism that has kept Northwestern in the news for all the wrong reasons.
