David Braun had been hired by Northwestern as their defensive coordinator in January of this year. Pat Fitzgerald, the team’s head coach, had made this statement at the time. Now that Northwestern has parted ways with Fitzgerald, Braun will run the show while the search for an interim replacement is underway.
Northwestern University is expected to name defensive coordinator David Braun as its interim head coach following the firing of Pat Fitzgerald on Monday.
David Braun had been hired by Northwestern as their defensive coordinator in January of this year. Pat Fitzgerald, the team’s head coach, had made this statement at the time. However, now that Northwestern has parted ways with head coach Pat Fitzgerald, according to multiple reports, Braun will lead the team while an interim replacement is sought.
Who is David Brown?
David Braun is an American football coach and former player. At the moment, he is Northwestern’s defensive coordinator. In 2008, Braun began working as a Graduate Assistant at His Soul University. He was hired by Culver-Stockton in 2010 as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.
David returned to Winona State in 2011 and remained there through the end of the 2014 competition as the linebackers coach and co-defensive coordinator. He started working as the defensive line coach at UC Davis in 2015 and held that position until the end of 2016.
Braun was hired by Northern Iowa in 2017 as their defensive line coach and run game coordinator. He was promoted to special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach in 2018. At North Dakota State University, he was named defensive coordinator and safety coach in 2019. There, he won two Subdivision Football Championship championships. .
Northwestern hired ArentFox Schiff on January 11 to launch an investigation into allegations of harassment made by a former athlete. After nearly six months, on Friday, July 7, ArentFox Schiff and the university released the conclusion of the report, which found that hazing occurred on the Northwestern show. The investigation did not uncover any evidence that Fitzgerald was aware of the hazing, but noted that “there had been significant opportunities to discover and report hazing conduct.”
Consequently, Fitzgerald received an initial two-week unpaid suspension on Friday. According to recent reports, Fitzgerald will not be taking over as the Wildcats’ head coach after 17 seasons.