Members of the Northwestern football team are pushing back against the latest raunchy claims of abuse-filled hazing in their program as the school could levy an even heavier plenty on their coach.
Members of the Northwestern football team are pushing back against the latest raunchy claims of abuse-filled hazing in their program as the school could levy an even heavier penalty on their coach.
“The recent allegations brought forth are exaggerated and twisted,” the players claimed in a joint letter from the “ENTIRE” team late Saturday via ESPN.
“It is disheartening to see that the allegations brought forth against our team have been exaggerated and twisted into lies. These fabrications have been made with the intention of harming our program and tarnish the reputation of our dedicated players and coaching staff. We firmly deny the validity of these accusations and stand united in our assertion that they do not reflect the true character of our team.”
The allegations were brought forth by anonymous players to the university’s student newspaper “The Daily Northwestern” in an article Saturday detailing a series of hazing rituals including one called “running” and claims of coerced sexual acts.
The report says that the freshman would be “getting ran” by eight to 10 upperclassmen while wearing masks, who are holding the freshman down and dry-humping them.
Another alleged ritual the players claimed in the article was called the “car wash” where in which some players would stand naked at the shower entrances to the showers and spin, forcing anyone entering to rub up against them.
“It’s just a really abrasive and barbaric culture that has permeated throughout that program for years on end now,” an anonymous player explained of the hazing in the article.
