At yesterday’s press conference for the Northwestern football team, Pat Fitzgerald was asked which factors went into publicly announcing Hunter Johnson as the starting QB weeks before the season opener.
“I was just talking to my boys one night at dinner and they asked me who the starting QB was and I said ‘Hunter,’ so the next day I announced it,” Fitzgerald announced to the media this Wednesday. “I figured I couldn’t trust two high schoolers and a seventh grader.”
He continued, saying, “In the past we’ve announced it earlier, [and] sometimes we’ve announced it coming out of spring ball.