If you were expecting interim Northwestern football coach David Braun to mention the word “hazing’’ during a Big Ten Media Days press conference Wednesday, you were sorely disappointed, not to mention hopelessly naive.
The chances of Braun addressing the specifics of the school’s scandal were zero. But some compassion toward the former players who have made the allegations of sexualized hazing would have been nice, no matter how broadly or vaguely the compassion were offered. Or, short of that, some tough talk about an end to hazing at Northwestern would have been good.
