The NCAA announced on Wednesday that they’re handing down a four-year show cause for former Michigan head coach and now Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh for “impermissible contact” recruits during a recruiting dead period during the COVID-19 pandemic. The punishment essentially will keep Harbaugh out of college football until 2028.
You go, NCAA! You really showed him!
This is essentially as if you graduated fr🀅om High School, t🔯hen your former principal called you and tried to give you a month of detention.
“Um, ok, cool, I guess? I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing.”
What’s Next For Jim Harbaugh
Well, he’ll probably just continue going about his business coaching the Chargers and not think about this.
However, it’s important to note this punishment has zero relationship to the current sign-stealing investigation. This is entirely connected to recruiting violations, refusal to cooperate with investigators, and not agreeing to the NCAA’s punishment for the school, which was three years of probation. So that means Michigan will still be on probation for three years, but the head coach of the Chargers can’t coach college football for at least four years. Yeah, I think he’ll live.
Here’s what the over the next four years:
It requires a school wanting to hire Harbaugh to suspend him for the first full season. A♛fter that, Harbaugh would still be barred from athletics-related activities, including team travel, practice, video study, recruiting and team meetings until the order expires.
So, as I saidꦫ, unless the Chargers thing goes DISASTROUSLY wrong, this punishment ♛will have zero effect on Jim Harbaugh for the next four years.
The sign-stealing scandal case is still open, and while potential resolutions have been leaked, nothing is official yet. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, Moore is facing allegations that he deleted text messages with Connor Stallions around the time the NCAA opened the investigation. The accusations, however, are considered Level 2 allegations, which aren’t as serious as the Level 1 violations committed by Harbaugh.
