{"id":464990,"date":"2023-10-06T11:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=464990"},"modified":"2023-10-06T11:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:39:13","slug":"fitzgerald-suing-northwestern-for-130-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fitzgerald-suing-northwestern-for-130-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzgerald suing Northwestern for 130 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Northwestern manager Pat Fitzgerald filed a wrongful termination lawsuit today vs. the university and the chief Michael Schill. Pat seeks 130 million dollars for lost income and reputational and punitive damages.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald alleges NU unlawfully dismissed him for cause during the summer, 3 days after announcing a 2-week suspension as part of corrective measures from a university-commissioned hazing probe into his knowledge. The university investigation found insufficient evidence to be certain that Fitzgerald and other managers knew the information shared by an ex-player.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pat Fitzgerald is suing Northwestern for $130 million.<br \/>\n\u2022 $68 million in owed salary<br \/>\n\u2022 $62 million in future lost income<\/p>\n<p>The former head football coach says he was wrongfully fired in the wake of a hazing and abuse scandal.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7ik07uOHeB\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/7ik07uOHeB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Front Office Sports (@FOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOS\/status\/1710155198977433912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His attorney shared that Pat and the university reached an &#8220;oral agreement&#8221; before the 14-day suspension that the manager would face no further discipline from Northwestern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact my client&#8217;s contract was terminated based on no rational reasons or facts, the fact that they&#8217;ve gone out and ruined his reputation as 1 of the best football managers in the USA, based on no legitimate reason or evidence, can\u2019t be tolerated,&#8221; his lawyer announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Northwestern manager Pat Fitzgerald filed a wrongful termination lawsuit today vs. the university and the chief Michael Schill. Pat seeks 130 million dollars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":464991,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20387,20388],"news_category":[16705],"gn_keywords":[19386,21675,21676],"acf":{"announce":"He claims that he was fired wrongfully.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464994,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464990\/revisions\/464994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464990"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=464990"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=464990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}