Former Northwestern football player describes alleged racist, abusive…

As fallout continued from hazing allegations within the Northwestern University football program, a former player opened up about alleged racist and abusive behavior by both coaches and players.

Ramon Diaz, who played on the university’s football team from 2005 to 2009, said in the end, he felt alienated by the program.

“I didn’t even walk in my graduation, because I wanted to leave Evanston as quickly as I could,” he said.

Diaz told NBC Chicago’s Natalie Martinez that he was the first natural born citizen in his family and that locker room jabs were common on Fitzgerald’s watch.

“Living on dirt floors and living here now, I should know better, I don’t have to keep a dirty floor underneath me…That to this day I’m still talking to my therapist about,” he said, detailing the claims.

Diaz said for years, he fought to get those memories out of his head.

“My dad grew up only with dirt floors,” he explained. “So the idea to insult that to make it a…