COLUMN: Narcissism Doesn’t Look Good On Pat Fitzgerald
Pat Fitzgerald’s written response to his termination eliminated 17 seasons worth of goodwill ambassadorship.
By Matt Stevens - IlliniGuys Football Writer/Analyst
July 11, 2023
(Cover photo courtesy Jeffrey Becker/USA Today Sports)
You might find this hard to believe but Northwestern University does actually provide an undergraduate course specifically in public relations communication.
Yes, Comm Studies 261 - Introduction to Strategic Communication, is a one-unit course described to “explore the nature of the modern organization and the role of communication in it”.
My suggestion is everybody involved in this ongoing hazing scandal surrounding Northwestern University, its athletics department and the football program might want to audit that class before they provide the public with any more mind-numbing proclamations.
There’s no doubt Northwestern president Michael Schill has bungled this ordeal from the moment of trying to do a 1960s style Friday evening news dump and a midnight statement admitting to his previous errors in judgment.
Northwestern athletics director Derrick Gragg, who has apparently been overseas during this whole ordeal, might as well be a permanent mute. The next time we hear from him will be the first.
And then there’s Wildcats head football coach Patrick William Fitzgerald Jr., who up to Friday, July 7, 2023 was a clean posterboy for leadership in the always ever-muddied world of Power Five Conference football.
