Replacing Pat Fitzgerald at Northwestern: Bruce Feldman’s candidates, from Duke to the NFL
1 year, 5 months ago

Replacing Pat Fitzgerald at Northwestern: Bruce Feldman’s candidates, from Duke to the NFL

New York Times  

Pat Fitzgerald was Northwestern football for the past 30 years, but on Monday the school fired him in the wake of a hazing scandal. It’s never been an easy place to win, and that won’t get any easier with the Big Ten going away from divisions, meaning the Wildcats will no longer reside in the West Division — the one that doesn’t have to face Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State every year. Northwestern has been terrible on offense for awhile; Kafka seems like he could fix that pretty quickly, but he’s not far from becoming an NFL head coach at this point. Duke obviously is still a basketball school and the ACC doesn’t have the money the Big Ten has, so Elko is one to keep an eye on. A former defensive back at Pittsburg State in Kansas, he’s had double-digit win seasons at every level of college football, going 97-47 at Central Missouri, 40-15 at Sam Houston State, 17-7 at Georgia Southern and leading Tulane to a Sugar Bowl win over USC at a place with high academic standards.

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