I don't see an issue with Fitz's son wearing that shirt with his dad's number and that phrase on it since he's still a student assistant with the team and I can't imagine players having an issue with it.

If it was a coach wearing the shirt I guess it'd be something to talk about, but Fitz's son is a different situation. He has the same free speech rights as everybody else and isn't in under a contract where he represents the coaching staff.

NUCatVet said:

Thank you, Lou!

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Whoops, sorry. Thank you Purple Pile Driver for spot on comments!

lou v said:

Here's @mshelton33's column...

More than a year later, 'shirtgate' won’t go away

Student assistant Jack Fitzgerald wore the controversial "Cats Against the World 51" t-shirt at practice last week.

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“There still may be players on the roster who endured hazing.” There also may be players still in the roster who participated in hazing. But no one seems too concerned about that.

If we find the right QB, then we'll have at least six wins. If not, it will be a struggle to get to five.

I'm picking six wins, and hoping for more.

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Thank you, Lou!

I'm actually somewhat surprised that he decided to remain with NU. I seem to remember he had the test scores to go anywhere he wants and I doubt money is an issue, so he must still have some sort of attachment to the university (maybe that attachment is Braun; I don't know).

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Purple Pile Driver said:

The fact is both Mike and Clyde said they would have said for years that they worked it out. I tend to believe them. Mike would have established himself as tha Aplha after a few years, my definition of established is clearly different than yours. Clyde was the 14th pick of the 1983 draft and didn’t even start his rookie season. Picking Mike wouldn’t have disrupted the chemistry of the team and Clyde wasn’t even established as a NBA superstar.

Pretty much everyone on the planet would have taking Hakeem number 1. He was clearly on a path to super stardom. However, Sam was seriously injured throughout his time at Kentucky. Major injuries. There was significant risk to this pick! It made no sense to take Sam with the second pick, if you believed there was a redundancy take Barkley or Perkins at 2. I did cartwheels in my yard when Portland took Sam.

We won’t agree on this, so I will stop here, but IMO the Portand pick made no sense and any kind of back pedaling to justify why they missed on the greatest player of all time makes them look even more foolish.

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With the injury history in college that you mention(I knew he had injury issues later but was unaware of problems in college) it might might make sense to not use it to pick Bowie. Just because Clyde did not start as rookie does not mean they did not know what they had in him, If nothing else was avail that warranted the number two and you did not see an need for an MJ on your team then trade down and get value for the pick might have been a better approach for them. That said, they did have a plan and at that time teams tended to focus on having the dominant big man and that was what Bowie looked to be

To be fair, I was in central IL at the time and was not really following college bb and pretty hard to follow the draft all that much. They might have made a right decision but with poor execution. Happened to Bulls and Jerry Krause after the dynasty in his attempts to rebuild, He did pretty well in creating the situation where he had 2nds and 3rd draft pick but screwed up in taking two HS players in Chandler and Curry. Made sense to take Brand and then to move him when getting to the point he could be entering free agency. Point is that there is often not just one way to do things to be successful

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Are there any other student assistant coaches?

lou v said:

Here's @mshelton33's column...

More than a year later, 'shirtgate' won’t go away

Student assistant Jack Fitzgerald wore the controversial "Cats Against the World 51" t-shirt at practice last week.

northwestern.rivals.com

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Really? The horror of it all. A son supporting his father ( and a bunch of players still on the team) after the University fired him without any due process outlined in his contract.

Are the current players put off by Jack wearing this shirt? How about the staff? I pretty confident I know what they would tell you if it was off the record.

This is only an issue because it is being brought up in the media. No one else cares and I can guarantee you there are several players that would be in the corner of their former Coaches versus good ole Northwestern University. If it is so egregious, the powers to be above Braun should fire Jack. Of course, we have no idea who exactly those powers are, as the direction of this team has been a ruderless ship only saved by the Godsend called David Braun. Make Jack a Martyr, because Braun is not going to force the removal of the shirt and I believe that would be an unpopular thing to do with his team and so far Braun doesn’t make Mis-steps like that.

Ignore it!

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hdhntr1 said:

You might not like it but it is true. Egos involved are huge and things can be torn apart pretty quickly. So one is either willing to take on secondary role or it falls apart quickly, Drexsler was established so do you see MJ doing that? If he had would he have developed into the MJ we know or been more like Pippen? And if he hadn't taken such a roll, I can see the team (whatever team they were on) ripping itself apart.

When guys like that are put on an olympic dream team it is only for a few weeks to months and it can work for a while but on a team that is together for years....

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The fact is both Mike and Clyde said they would have said for years that they worked it out. I tend to believe them. Mike would have established himself as tha Aplha after a few years, my definition of established is clearly different than yours. Clyde was the 14th pick of the 1983 draft and didn’t even start his rookie season. Picking Mike wouldn’t have disrupted the chemistry of the team and Clyde wasn’t even established as a NBA superstar.

Pretty much everyone on the planet would have taking Hakeem number 1. He was clearly on a path to super stardom. However, Sam was seriously injured throughout his time at Kentucky. Major injuries. There was significant risk to this pick! It made no sense to take Sam with the second pick, if you believed there was a redundancy take Barkley or Perkins at 2. I did cartwheels in my yard when Portland took Sam.

We won’t agree on this, so I will stop here, but IMO the Portand pick made no sense and any kind of back pedaling to justify why they missed on the greatest player of all time makes them look even more foolish.

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