The figure is in for former Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald’s long-anticipated lawsuit against the school, and it’s a big one — $130 million.
According to Fitzgerald attorney Dan Webb, the 48-year-old coach was “wrongfully and illegally terminated” by the school “without any legitimate or rational reason whatsoever.” The announcement of the 51-page lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court against the university and its president, Michael Schill, comes nearly three months after the dismissal of the Wildcats’ career leader in victories, with 101, amid a hazing scandal that became national news.
