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Northwestern fires football coach Pat Fitzgerald, sources say

Northwestern has fired football coach Pat Fitzgerald, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel and Adam Rittenberg on Monday.

Fitzgerald's firing comes in the wake of a two-week unpaid suspension that was announced by the school on Friday, following a university-commissioned investigation into hazing allegations within the program that were made by an anonymous whistleblower.

A day after announcing Fitzgerald's suspension, the school appeared to reverse course Saturday night, with university president Michael Schill saying in a letter sent to the Northwestern community that he "may have erred in weighing the appropriate sanction" for Fitzgerald after new details emerged surrounding the hazing allegations.