PAT FITZGERALD RUMORS
Fitzgerald Reflects on Practice
This Purple Wildcats Insider update breaks down Pat Fitzgerald's answers to the media on Saturday morning.
Via northwestern.scout.com
April 07, 2013
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PWTV: Pat Fitzgerald
Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald meets with the media, following the Wildcats' first spring practice. PurpleWildcats offers video of the interview.
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February 27, 2013
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New Year's bowl games: Quick Hits
Northwestern 34, Mississippi State 20
Pat Fitzgerald has done a tremendous job with the Northwestern program, and it paid off with the Wildcats' first 10-win season since 1995.
But even more impressive is the fact that this is the first bowl win for Northwestern since the 1940s the last bowl win came at the 1949 Rose Bowl. Bowl futility is no longer defined by Northwestern...
Via Fox Sports South
January 01, 2013
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Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald institutes mandatory nap on gamedays
While most major college football programs spend their time leading up to gameday going over scouting reports, running over plays, or even stuffing their faces with a big meal, the Northwestern Wildcats are employing a different approach this year -- napping. "We'll wake up, have our pregame meal, do our mental things and then have a mandatory nap," Northwestern quarterback...
Navy SEALs Unit Trains Northwestern Wildcats Football Team (Video)
If head coach Pat Fitzgerald's Northwestern Wildcats appear to be playing with a little more cohesiveness this season, you'll know exactly why. Fitzgerald welcomed three members of the Navy SEALs unit to speak to the team about mental toughness, thriving under pressure and sacrificing for the greater good. After that meeting session, the team was instructed to board team...
Northwestern aims to end winless bowl drought
CHICAGO A plush monkey toy rests comfortably inside the office of Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald. But this is not some cutesy, fuzzy friend Fitzgerald gazes at with delight during his down time between film study and practice preparation.
Instead, he would prefer the monkey cease to exist its big, cheerful, plastic eyes masking the symbolism of a program's failure...
Via Fox Sports Wisconsin
July 30, 2012
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Pat Fitzgerald talks about Northwestern’s new Under Armour uniforms
Pat Fitzgerald had a great quote on dais at Big Ten Media Day: “some people have called me the youngest old-school person in the country, and I’m okay with that”
He’s definitely earned it, as Northwestern has been to four straight bowl games, a first in school history. Their academic rating, APR is so high that it makes them one of the best ranked schools in the nation....
Northwestern’s New Under Armor Uniforms
This year Northwestern is switching uniform providers from Adidas to Under Armour. This could be good or it could be disastrous. Either way the is the most recent evidence that Northwestern is actively trying to improve their athletic department. As the B1G’s only private university Northwestern is at a competitive disadvantage. Years of apathy have left the Wildcats trailing...
Winning season up for grabs in Texas Bowl
Pat Fitzgerald and Tim DeRuyter sat next to each other in a little room on the service level at Reliant Stadium Thursday as two very different men in the exact same position.
It was a press conference for the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas, and while both expressed all the due excitement about the opportunity to play in a bowl game, neither could help but mention the disappointing...
Via Fox Sports Houston
December 08, 2011
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Northwestern’s Five Biggest Wins of the Pat Fitzgerald Era
With the 28-25 upset of the ninth-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers this past Saturday, Northwestern Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald gained sole possession of second place on NU’s all-time coaching wins list. Fitzgerald stands at 38 wins, one more than his predecessor Randy Walker and 11 behind Lynn Waldorf’s school-record of 49.
Fitz is inked to be at the school till 2020, so it’s safe...
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