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Northwestern athletic director Derrick Gragg blasted assistant football coaches and staff members for wearing shirts supporting fired coach Pat Fitzgerald at practice Wednesday, calling them “inappropriate, offensive and tone deaf” given the hazing and abuse scandal engulfing the football program and other teams

Several Wildcats players and coaches were spotted wearing shirts bearing the message “Cats against the World” and the number 51. Fired coach Pat Fitzgerald wore No. 51 as an NU player in the 1990s.

The senior athlete from Hersey committed to Northwestern on Monday, a milestone in interim coach David Braun’s efforts to bring some stability to the troubled program.

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Braun was thrown in front of reporters at Wednesday’s Big Ten media days as the school’s first figure to answer questions for a scandal that long predates his tenure.

It would have been nice if he had acknowledged that some former players might have been hurt by the hazing scandal.