We weren’t in the proverbial room with Northwestern president Michael Schill whenever it was he decided — presumably with input from others, including athletic director Derrick Gragg and possibly coach Pat Fitzgerald himself — to suspend Fitzgerald for two weeks without pay after an independent investigation into alleged hazing in the Wildcats’ football program.
We can imagine what they might have been thinking, though. First, dump the news of the suspension on a Friday and the public might hardly even notice it, right? After that, a beautiful summer weekend on the North Shore. Perhaps a sunny stroll past the Baha’i temple? An evening campfire at Dempster Beach?
