The Northwestern hazing scandal has brushed Duke football, but probably not in a way that you would have expected.
Turns out Mike Elko’s son, Michael, played baseball at Northwestern. As you may have heard, Wildcats baseball coach Jim Foster followed football coach Pat Fitzgerald out the door. Football was where the scandal started but the baseball team has been affected too.
It’s an interesting situation for Elko, who, unlike most of us, is a head coach of a significant college program, and his comments about his son reflect that: “It’s part of life. I got a lot of respect for that program.