COMMENTARY

Point is, if anyone could convince NU boosters to kick in a little scratch for the new stadium/entertainment palace, it was the coach widely known as Fitz. You might say there was a lot of money riding on keeping him as coach. Now back to Hickey’s report.

It dropped on a Friday afternoon, which pretty much guaranteed it would not get much attention. NU didn’t even release the actual report—still hasn’t, as I write this. Nor apparently do they have to, as NU is a private institution not governed by public records law.

Instead, they released an “executive summary,” unsigned by any human. Not even NU president Michael Schill. So for all we know it was written by an AI robot, programmed to sound like a human (if humans sounded like corporate lawyers). Here’s how they broke it down . . .