In a 2014 video for the Positive Coaching Alliance shot on a Northwestern practice field, Wildcats football coach Pat Fitzgerald discussed hazing in college athletics. Specifically, he said there was ‘‘zero tolerance’’ for it at the school where he starred as a player in the mid-1990s and has coached since 2001, including the last 17 seasons as head coach.
‘‘There’s no reason to ever have it,’’ he said. “I know there’s a lot of initiations and traditions and things of that nature, and we had that here back, frankly, when I was a player in some different ways. But as society has evolved and we really thought deep about how we want to welcome our new family members into our organizations, hazing should have nothing to do with it.’’
