Pat Fitzgerald’s tenure at Northwestern, which spanned nearly three decades across his stints as a player and coach, came to an abrupt and shocking end on Monday evening after a weekend-long firestorm regarding well-founded allegations of hazing within the program he helmed since 2006. The winningest coach in program history and inarguably the face of modern Northwestern athletics, Fitzgerald’s ouster has already launched a litany of post-mortems – this one getting the official Meet at Midfield…