Welcome back to the latest edition of The Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Bruce

Feldman, joined this week by a couple of my colleagues from the athletic. We're going

to start. We'll have Ari Wasserman, our recruiting guru, join us a little later, but the

biggest story that happened in stew is on vacation still and I was on vacation last week. There

was a Friday news dump out of Northwestern. Pat Fitzgerald is getting a two week suspension

and it goes to their investigation into hazing allegations inside the program and we're going

to have on Scott Doctorman. Scott is the athletics, you know, fantastic Iowa beat writer, but he's

really a great resource on all things big 10 especially. And so Scott, you a couple of years

ago, covered the scandal at Iowa involving Chris Doyle, the former strength coach and obviously

Kurt Ferrance, but I think what was interesting about that story was it felt like it was playing

out in real time with former and current players weighing in on social media and kind of

airing a lot of stuff and it kind of blew up. I think this story is interesting because it

really, I don't know if if people kind of in Iowa say people, people who cover college

football and the media were kind of, oh, you know, Pat Fitzgerald is a good guy. We end up kind

of looking at it in that light and dismissing it or just didn't know what's going on maybe also

because it's a private school that it was kind of floating behind the underneath the radar. What

was your reaction when this thing first got released Friday? Well, first thanks for having

on and I guess, you know, like everyone, I read the executive summary and I was a little confused

by it because there was an admission that there was that hazing and taking place that they were

going to shut down Camp Kenosha, which was, you know, a tradition for 30 years and Pat Fitzgerald

is going to receive a two week unpaid suspension, which we know this time of year is like going on

vacation, just not getting paid for it, but, but it does, you know, it is a PR, you know, hit to

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