On Thursday, Pat Fitzgerald was history's least-embattled 1-11 college football coach preparing for the final season in the recognizable Big Ten. Three days later, the university where he was so entrenched that it seemed like he would coach until he died and then get stuffed like Jeremy Bentham so that his ghoulish death mask could be trotted out to intimidate a referee after a particularly egregious pass interference call fired him amid a maelstrom of grotesque hazing allegations, secretive reports, and incompetent flailing from the highest reaches of the university bureaucracy; the result was a preening coach, program, and university that tediously sold itself as a model for doing things The Right Way imploding over tawdry, Shrek-related humping incidents.
The Pat Fitzgerald Era Ends In Tawdry Shrek Humping Scandal
