The primary goal and objective of this thesis is to provide insight into the problematic culture of hazing within college sports, specifically within football programs nationwide. This thesis focuses on two cases primarily, while also using examples of cases that have taken place outside of each of these. The two cases studied here are the Northwestern University hazing scandal and the University of San Diego hazing scandal, both of which took place within the university’s football program. By analyzing secondary cases, this will help create a better understanding as to why this may be a persisting problem amongst NCAA student-athletes. With there being multiple hazing scandals in the world of college football alone, this thesis drew attention to the issue and raised the question: why is this still recurring and so prevalent within collegiate sports? This thesis’s goal is to answer this question and to find out how and why this still remains to be an issue. In a time where college athletics has taken off, this is an issue holding back the product and shows that scandalous affairs still occur in the sport on a yearly basis. The outcome of this thesis is an explanation of how and why hazing occurs using organizational communication theory and to discuss why it is an overall improper practice. By using concepts such as organizational identification and dissent, this thesis explores why hazing in college sports does not provide helpful or worthwhile outcomes for the building of team cohesion.