Column: Interim coach David Braun — and not Northwestern administrators — needs to lead the football program’s reform
[Don't miss] Northwestern AD Derrick Gragg, under scrutiny for hazing scandal, offers questionable advice about women — ‘man’s greatest distraction’ — in bookSay this for Braun: At least he sat on the podium and took the heat for 45 minutes — and it’s not even his mess.
That roadmap, however, was pockmarked with statements that seemed misguided at best, tone-deaf at worst. He later walked back that lofty standard, acknowledging: “To think that you’re going to have full control over 100 adolescent young men, or for that matter an entire program and all the pieces that go into that, isn’t realistic. You’ve got to lean into making sure that you feel like you’re populating your organization with the right people.”
“I can’t speak to what happened prior to my arrival; I can only speak to my experiences,” he said. “And everything I’ve experienced gives me great conviction that I’m rolling with a group that will take this thing head on and come together to do something really special.”
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