Scandals happen in the best places and, let's all agree, Northwestern is one of the best places, a bit of a consistent pushover where muscles matter, with the occasional success more an aberration than an expectation. As college sports scandals go this one will be buried in the general pile of misdemeanors, somewhere between Ohio State's trinkets for tattoos and Bob Knight's abuse of furniture. Coaches have lost jobs for being bullies and for either ignoring or encouraging misbehavior. So, welcome back to the party Northwestern.
The general agreement, voiced and lamented, is that Northwestern is better than this when obviously it is not. It is just another jock factory when it comes down to it, just not a very good one.
As college sports scandals go this one will be buried in the general pile of misdemeanors, somewhere between Ohio State's trinkets for tattoos and Bob Knight's abuse of furniture. Coaches have lost jobs for being bullies and for either ignoring or encouraging misbehavior. So, welcome back to the party Northwestern.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service A personal note here. I worked in the college bookstore as a student at The Ohio State University and one of my jobs was to distribute text books to athletes, free of charge and brand new, some so fresh that not all the pages were cut apart. I would collect them back at the end of the semester and invariably the books with the uncut pages would be as I had passed them out, never opened and never read.
My favorite college coach was Bobby Bowden, folksy and caring, yet academic scandals at Florida State cost Bowden victories that dropped him behind Joe Paterno on the all-time win list. Gary Barnett, for whom Pat Fitzgerald played, and who took the Purple to Pasadena had his own anxious moments at Northwestern involving four of his players indicted for lying to a federal grand jury about gambling and point spread shaving.Later at Colorado, Barnett had even more egregious problems, none of them athletic, leaving Northwestern to be better than him.
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