It’s the thing that coaches say when they want to make a show of taking responsibility for something unpleasant involving their teams, whether it’s a loss on the football field or a player’s misconduct on the street: It starts with me.
Northwestern should have used that as a guide when punishing Pat Fitzgerald for a hazing scandal that occurred on his watch as head football coach. Instead, the school suspended him for two weeks in July, which is like suspending a bear during hibernation. That slap on the wrist Friday led to waves of criticism crashing upon Northwestern. A day later, drenched university president Michael Schill announced that he would reconsider Fitzgerald’s discipline.
