I said it before and I'll say it again: Northwestern football had (I hope its past tense) a weird sexual cult thing going on.
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They always said they recruited a different kind of athlete. Now we see whyI said it before and I'll say it again: Northwestern football had (I hope its past tense) a weird sexual cult thing going on.
It’s not very bizarre, I would say? And there is a canyon of distance to cover between “a Score producer screened my call” and “multiple media outlets covered up this incident”.Here's why. On the day in 2015 that Tim Beckman was fired as Illini HC, Bernstein went on a rant about Illini athletics and how bad our school was about handling player abuse. So I called into his show, with the intent to ask him about his decade-and-a-half long silence on Rashidi Wheeler's death (at that point in time he LOVED Fitzie, and had NEVER mentioned Wheeler's death). But first I had to get thru WSCR's screener (believe it was the show's producer). The screener refused to let me the show on to ask Berstein a question about Wheeler. Said it was "old news that had already been litigated". I explained that it was particularly important in light of the show's topic that day on player abuse in college football, and that it had never been discussed by Bernstein on WSCR. He kept repeating that it was old news and wasn't relevant to the show that day. How bizarre is that?
WSCR was paid a lot of money from Northwestern Athletics in advertising so the Kitties were handled with kid gloves for a long time.I'm curious as to how you're lumping Bernstein in on all this as him and Boers were pretty critical when all the stuff went on at Penn State and Bernstein has been pretty clear of his position on the Northwestern stuff today. He can't really get lumped in with the mid-90s stuff as I'm pretty sure he was still just a reporter and not a radio personality at that point.
The Wheeler trial was covered by the Tribune - but not in the sports section. And it was buried well behind the front page, unlike most Illini v. NCAA sports stories.It’s not very bizarre, I would say? And there is a canyon of distance to cover between “a Score producer screened my call” and “multiple media outlets covered up this incident”.
As a general rule “journalists didn’t bodyslam the people I wished they would, in the way I would prefer” does not constitute sweeping a story under the rug. You (and many of the rest of us) knowing about it is evidence that the story was not covered up.
Interesting that Bernstein finally came clean last summer about his relationship with NU. He admitted he was basically groomed (his own words) by Phillips and Fitz. Talked about being given courtside basketball seats for himself and his son by the AD with t-shirts hand-delivered by Fitz. Moment of clarity by Bernstein AFTER the scandal news became public. Think he was the only one?WSCR was paid a lot of money from Northwestern Athletics in advertising so the Kitties were handled with kid gloves for a long time.
Ok - that's a point for my argument, not yours. Something getting covered by the news section as opposed to sports means it is being given more credence by the publication, not less.The Wheeler trial was covered by the Tribune - but not in the sports section. And it was buried well behind the front page, unlike most Illini v. NCAA sports stories.
I mean, can't we look back in the fullness of time and understand that blowing that situation out of proportion was a BENEFIT to Illini athletics and was in fact the way the DIA itself purposefully treated the situation?Here's why. On the day in 2015 that Tim Beckman was fired as Illini HC, Bernstein went on a rant about Illini athletics and how bad our school was about handling player abuse.