The Northwestern University hazing scandal that cost head football coach Pat Fitzgerald his job will turn out to be the biggest in the history of college sports in terms of the sheer number of athletes involved, an attorney who filed the only two lawsuits in the case said Thursday.

Attorneys Parker Stinar and Patrick Salvi said the Northwestern athletes they have heard from so far have described abuse that is far worse in women’s sports than it is in the football program formerly run by fired Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald.