Perspective: Changing coaches is easy. Changing cultures is the hard work college sports officials need to start taking seriously.
were found guilty. It isn’t uncommon anywhere or even that infrequent. Just this year, New Mexico State basketball suffered its own hazing scandal and ended its season early., but it has clearer rules restricting overzealous end zone celebrations.
“Hazing is a matter for local law enforcement and/or university leadership to address,” an NCAA spokesperson emailed me Monday. “NCAA best practices encourage athletics administrators, coaches and student-athletes to work together to develop anti-hazing policies which promote healthy team activities and avoid practices that humiliate team members.”
But criminalizing hazing, as with criminalizing so many things, hasn’t scared everyone straight. And we don’t need to turn college students into criminals simply because they play games. It’s just that it hasn’t mattered that hazing is against the law in just about every state now, with charges rising to felonies if someone gets killed. The problem is that hazing is so baked into the team sports ethos.To be sure, even the athletes who suffer the brunt of being humiliated rarely speak up.
But not coaching or not playing is ultimately what will threaten their futures in sports. Those who participated in and abetted what happened at Northwestern should face a similar fate as their coach, who said he knew nothing. Suspension of games and the paychecks they garner may be what really is needed to rein in this culture, which always seems to careen into sexual abuse and some sort of racial persecution.
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