The descriptions of hazing at Northwestern are now sufficiently voluminous to understand that something was deeply twisted in the DNA of a program that former head coach Pat Fitzgerald now claims to know nothing about.
That point is beyond dispute. Descriptions of what happened across years in the Northwestern locker room are so horrific − the forced acts of nudity, the dry humping as punishment, the entire gamut of sexualized rituals − that one unnamed former player from the last decade told The Athletic, "I knew this day would come. If someone were to run an investigation on us, we are (expletive).