(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Northwestern's interim head football coach, David Braun, says the past weeks have been a difficult time for the "team, staff and current and former players impacted" by the hazing scandal, but he says "this football team will be ready to go."
Northwestern named Braun to replaced fired coach Pat Fitzgerald less than two weeks ago, and Braun told reporters at Big Ten Media Days that he "never could have imagined" and did not desire to be named head coach under these circumstances.
“A lot of people have been impacted by decisions made over the course of the last couple of weeks,” he said Wednesday.
"And our guys right now in that facility are going through a lot. And we have an opportunity to either run from that, or an opportunity to truly stare that adversity in the face -- stare it down. And go attack this opportunity to make this fall an incredible story that truly embodies what this team's all about."
Braun says the team has responded to that challenge.
Northwestern's athletic director Derrick Gragg has told ESPN that the university's "athletic teams will begin participating in mandatory, in-person anti-hazing seminars conducted by outside groups, beginning with the football team."
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