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Northwestern Week 6 press conference notes

Pat Fitzgerald

Anthem protest section (you’ve been told):

  • Fitzgerald opened his remarks by expressing his sympathy for what occurred in Las Vegas on Sunday night. Thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and the first responders, from Fitzgerald and all of us here at Inside NU.
  • On anthem protests and kneeling for the anthem: “If guys are going to execute their freedom of speech, that’s a choice that I’ll fully support. That’s a choice we all have been given. To me though, and I’ve already expressed this to our squad, when you look at the peaceful protests that guys have made, it’s not at the national anthem, it is not at our military, it is not at the freedoms that we’ve provided.