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Northwestern Athletics Scandals

WindyCityDeac said:
There is a large call in the media for Northwestern to shut down their athletics program. I'm torn on this one. Fall Sports are basically started, no kid will be able to find a roster spot at another school. Are you punishing too many people who had nothing to do with this by shutting it down? Outside of that it seems like they need to shut it down.

I don't like the idea of all the inevitable stories come September of how football is helping to heal the university etc.
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No. Get new leadership.
 
Not that shutting down the NW sports programs is/was ever going to happen, but what is the point in punishing the athletes that had nothing to do with these scandals?

That is the real impact of a shutdown, the athletes will be the ones that suffer, but no one seems to care about what they want. The four years of competing are so precious; to rob the athletes of one year would be so wrong (sure some athletes could transfer, but why force a kid who wants a NW degree and has earned the right to compete at the D1 level to make the choice to stay and not play or go to some other school?).

There are kids on the NW cross country team, field hockey team, soccer team among others that worked their asses off all Summer to get ready for the Fall season. Playing college sports is tough and taxing, but it's also the best time of their lives for so many athletes. The friendship, comraderie, competing and testing yourself. Those calling for shutting everything down won't care about NW athletics in two weeks; they will be onto some other cause, but the disruption and the loss to the athletes will never be recovered.

At this point, the primary concern should be the athletes. First protecting them and taking every imaginable step to prevent what has happened from happening again. For those that want to leave, by all means, they should get a free transfer even if we are now outside the portal window for fall and winter sports, but for those that want to stay and play (which is the vast majority), shutting everything down would only serve to punish the athletes and would accomplish nothing.
 
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Kinda naive of me to say, but pretty shocked about this coming from NWestern. Always thought of them as our Big10 analogue (and Vandy for the SEC). If an elite academic school has this kind of crap going on, is anyone pure?
 
Pilchard said:
Not that shutting down the NW sports programs is/was ever going to happen, but what is the point in punishing the athletes that had nothing to do with these scandals?

That is the real impact of a shutdown, the athletes will be the ones that suffer, but no one seems to care about what they want. The four years of competing are so precious; to rob the athletes of one year would be so wrong (sure some athletes could transfer, but why force a kid who wants a NW degree and has earned the right to compete at the D1 level to make the choice to stay and not play or go to some other school?).

There are kids on the NW cross country team, field hockey team, soccer team among others that worked their asses off all Summer to get ready for the Fall season. Playing college sports is tough and taxing, but it's also the best time of their lives for so many athletes. The friendship, comraderie, competing and testing yourself. Those calling for shutting everything down won't care about NW athletics in two weeks; they will be onto some other cause, but the disruption and the loss to the athletes will never be recovered.

At this point, the primary concern should be the athletes. First protecting them and taking every imaginable step to prevent what has happened from happening again. For those that want to leave, by all means, they should get a free transfer even if we are now outside the portal window for fall and winter sports, but for those that want to stay and play (which is the vast majority), shutting everything down would only serve to punish the athletes and would accomplish nothing.
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“Almost All of Us Will be Going Pro in Something Other Than Sports.”​

 
WindyCityDeac said:
that was the right call by them. Honestly, this should have been a decision the university made to not put these guys in that position.
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certainly. just constantly amazed by the poor choice of words by....everyone involved in this over the past few weeks
 
It’s wild that there aren’t good media consultants available in Chicago.
 
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