Former students, players and state leaders weigh in on football program hazing reports.
Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald reacts after Michigan State scored a touchdown in the first half of a game at Ryan Field in Evanston on Sept. 3, 2021.
As for Diaz, he recounted an incident where another player once shaved the words “Cinco de Mayo” in his head. He recalled coming in off the field, muddy from playing football like the rest of the team, to be singled out by a coach and told, “I know that you grew up on dirt floors but here we have to keep things clean.”
Braden Jones, who played football at Northwestern in 2002 and 2003, said news of the allegations was triggering. ”I had a terrible experience there,” he said. “I don’t blame Coach Fitzgerald for that — he wasn’t the head coach at the time but was supportive of me.” Now an orthopedic surgeon based in Cortez, Colorado, Jones said it’s disappointing to see the kind of abuse he and his teammates faced more than two decades ago is still prevalent.
Jason Li, a junior at Northwestern, said he doesn’t keep up with the football team but now sees hazing as something the whole campus community should be more aware of.As someone holding leadership positions in various campus clubs, Li said he wants to make sure hazing, in any form, isn’t tolerated. Pritzker added that “we’ve got to hold people accountable who are in leadership in setting the tone for leadership,” though he said he didn’t know enough about the investigation to comment on specifics.State Rep. Kam Buckner, a Democrat from Chicago, told the Politico Playbook that the hazing revelations prompted him to continue his existing work on creating a student athletes bill of rights.
Buckner added that he’s also supportive of setting up an independent body that is not part of a specific school where players and can report hazing.
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