EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern University and former football coach Pat Fitzgerald have settled a $130 million lawsuit that Fitzgerald's representatives have filed against the university.

The backstory:

Fitzgerald and his legal representatives sued Northwestern in October 2023, months after he was fired from the university as its head football coach following a national hazing scandal that continues to hover over the university.

The terms of the settlement were not made public. However, in a statement, Fitzgerald was pleased with the settlement.

"For the past two years, I have engaged in a process of extensive fact and expert discovery, which showed what I have known and said all along—that I had no knowledge of hazing ever occurring in the Northwestern football program, and that I

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