Reflecting on the last 72 hours or so, cacophony is the word that first comes to mind.
These last three days have been as loud as any in the history of Northwestern Athletics. The Daily Northwestern’s release of a report on Saturday — in which a former football player detailed sexually abusive hazing practices within the program — rang out. The emergence of a report read on 670 The Score on Monday afternoon, which detailed baseball head coach Jim Foster’s alleged institution of a toxic environment, pierced through the football discourse. And Pat Fitzgerald’s firing that night was the gale that blew the house down.