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Lawsuit update

Looks like the players dropped their suits against Phillips, Gragg, Schill and Shapiro.

Hmm... so the "NU will collude with the aggrieved players against Fitzgerald" theory gains a little momentum?

Step 1. Get these players to remove Schill and the Board as defendants from their lawsuits. Most Important! DONE
Step 2. Get these players to testify under oath in their case against Northwestern, but enable them to grossly exaggerate their claims against Fitzgerald specifically.
Step 3. Settle with the players.
Step 4. Use the players' sworn (misleading? false?) testimony against Fitzgerald in his lawsuit against Northwestern.

Step 5. Pretend to have taken the high road.
 
The dismissed lawsuits were likely settled quietly.

NU has been reaching out to former players for a while now for help in their case against Fitz. So, I will let you all think what you will. 😉

Either Fitz, Northwestern, or a 100 former players are lying. What do @GOUNUII and @No Chores and @thewildcat2011 think?

I wish our board lawyers would opine.
Lying about what? The original report said Fitz did not know about the “hazing.”
 
Fitz was lying. And he has been for years.

Matthew 7:7-

Quoting the Bible when discussing a legal matter? Ok guy. It’s not Fitz saying he didn’t know, it is the investigators who found no evidence he knew. He is going to get paid and hoolpefully result in Schill being let go
 
Quoting the Bible when discussing a legal matter? Ok guy. It’s not Fitz saying he didn’t know, it is the investigators who found no evidence he knew. He is going to get paid and hoolpefully result in Schill being let go
Did or do you still honestly believe that Northwestern’s investigators - whom they were paying - were going to find any wrongdoing on Northwestern University’s - or its most famous employee and alumni’s - behalf?

I got a beautiful bridge to sell you. It goes from Brooklyn to New Jersey - how much can you spare, my friend and fellow Northwestern alum chum?
 
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It’s very difficult to prove a negative. PF not knowing is a negative. It’s easy to disprove a negative - like if a player or many players claim PF was told, or spoke about, or was present …

But it’s quoting damning for the person responsible for the program to claim to not know about a systemic issue going back to his playing days that even the female equipment managers knew intimately about.

Sure, this is not same level of evil as PSU but it’s the same argument. And the same defenses are raised by the JoePa defenders about liars and greed and so forth.

So be consistent - if you defend PF then you must give deference to the JoePa defenders that make the same no knowledge, everyone is lying defense.
 
The dismissed lawsuits were likely settled quietly.

NU has been reaching out to former players for a while now for help in their case against Fitz. So, I will let you all think what you will. 😉

Either Fitz, Northwestern, or a 100 former players are lying. What do @GOUNUII and @No Chores and @thewildcat2011 think?

I wish our board lawyers would opine.
I think the Diaz case settled. I doubt the dismissal of certain defendants came from settlement. Was there any motion practice - I would expect it to come from there, and maybe following some deps.
 
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It’s very difficult to prove a negative. PF not knowing is a negative. It’s easy to disprove a negative - like if a player or many players claim PF was told, or spoke about, or was present …

But it’s quoting damning for the person responsible for the program to claim to not know about a systemic issue going back to his playing days that even the female equipment managers knew intimately about.

Sure, this is not same level of evil as PSU but it’s the same argument. And the same defenses are raised by the JoePa defenders about liars and greed and so forth.

So be consistent - if you defend PF then you must give deference to the JoePa defenders that make the same no knowledge, everyone is lying defense.
Is the NU hazing scandal as evil as PSU’s? Of course not.

But is it still disgusting and an arguably stupider scandal? Yes. Fitz got paid tens of millions of dollars, got hundreds of millions for his facilities, and did a TERRIBLE JOB.

He deserved to get fired and should win NOTHING.

Fire them all. Schill and Gragg and the entire BoT for all I care. They are all dogshit.
 
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Did or do you still honestly believe that Northwestern’s investigators - whom they were paying - were going to find any wrongdoing on Northwestern University’s - or its most famous employee and alumni’s - behalf?

I got a beautiful bridge to sell you. It goes from Brooklyn to New Jersey - how much can you spare, my friend and fellow Northwestern alum chum?
Dumb dumb, there is not a bridge that goes from Brooklyn to NJ. The Brooklyn bridge connects Brooklyn with Manhattan. The George Washington bridge connects Manhattan and NJ. How this helps.
 
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It’s very difficult to prove a negative. PF not knowing is a negative. It’s easy to disprove a negative - like if a player or many players claim PF was told, or spoke about, or was present …

But it’s quoting damning for the person responsible for the program to claim to not know about a systemic issue going back to his playing days that even the female equipment managers knew intimately about.

Sure, this is not same level of evil as PSU but it’s the same argument. And the same defenses are raised by the JoePa defenders about liars and greed and so forth.

So be consistent - if you defend PF then you must give deference to the JoePa defenders that make the same no knowledge, everyone is lying defense.
You people are insane. Paterno was told by his asst coach that another asst coach was raping a child. Instead of going to the police he went to school administrators. Multiple people went to jail, including the school president and VP.

When people start going to jail because of this hazing” scandal, then we can compare the 2.
 
Quoting the Bible when discussing a legal matter? Ok guy. It’s not Fitz saying he didn’t know, it is the investigators who found no evidence he knew. He is going to get paid and hoolpefully result in Schill being let go
FItz is going to walk away with a $100 million + settlement on this one and NU will 100% deserve it.
 
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I think the Diaz case settled. I doubt the dismissal of certain defendants came from settlement. Was there any motion practice - I would expect it to come from there, and maybe following some deps.
Rittenberg reported yesterday that the entire Diaz lawsuit was dismissed in its entirety
 
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Hmm... so the "NU will collude with the aggrieved players against Fitzgerald" theory gains a little momentum?

Step 1. Get these players to remove Schill and the Board as defendants from their lawsuits. Most Important! DONE
Step 2. Get these players to testify under oath in their case against Northwestern, but enable them to grossly exaggerate their claims against Fitzgerald specifically.
Step 3. Settle with the players.
Step 4. Use the players' sworn (misleading? false?) testimony against Fitzgerald in his lawsuit against Northwestern.

Step 5. Pretend to have taken the high road.
Sounds illegal.
 
You people are insane. Paterno was told by his asst coach that another asst coach was raping a child. Instead of going to the police he went to school administrators. Multiple people went to jail, including the school president and VP.

When people start going to jail because of this hazing” scandal, then we can compare the 2.
Says who? I think the JoPa people say that’s a lie. Kinda like what some people say around here about witnesses they don’t want to believe.

#hypocrite
 
Two things can be true at once.

1) The whole hazing lawsuits is bullshit. This happened everywhere, at every level and is part of sports. It is/was/will always be a complete non-factor except for beta males who never competed in anything.

2) Fitz sucked 3 out of the last 4 years he was HC and was never going to evolve. It is a blessing this “incident” forced his dismissal. Braun is going to be fine and if he’s not we’re rich and will hire a new coach before the Taj Mahal Pat Ryan opens in 2027 or 2028. Fitz’s history with the program made him almost unfireable… except for a situation like this.
 
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