ESPN: Sources: Michigan under NCAA investigation; Jim Harbaugh expects to stay

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Per ESPN:

As Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh reiterated his intention Thursday to remain with the Wolverines in 2023, the NCAA is investigating the program for alleged violations during the COVID-19 recruiting dead period, sources told ESPN.

The violations include alleged impermissible contact with recruits during the NCAA-mandated dead periods, as well as the use of a defensive analyst for on-field coaching activities, a rules violation. Sources told ESPN that Harbaugh's cooperation with NCAA enforcement staff during the investigation is also being examined. Harbaugh could face penalties that include a multigame suspension, sources said.

Michigan has not received a notice of allegations from the NCAA but could in the coming days or weeks, according to sources.

NCAA bylaws require head coaches to monitor their staff and maintain an atmosphere of compliance within their program. Coaches who fail to do so are subject to penalties.

Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel, when reached Thursday by ESPN, declined comment. The Athletic and journalist John Bacon first reported that Michigan is under investigation by the NCAA.

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Sources: NCAA investigating Michigan, Harbaugh

Michigan is under investigation for alleged violations during the COVID-19 recruiting dead period, sources said. Jim Harbaugh's cooperation during the investigation is also being examined.
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Go Gophers!!
 

The violations seem pretty similar to frosts plus a lie to the people asking questions
 


It seems the cover-up is always worse than the crime.
Harbaugh has a bit of a messianic complex and thinks mere mortals have no right to question him.
 

Plato said:
It seems the cover-up is always worse than the crime.
Harbaugh has a bit of a messianic complex and thinks mere mortals have no right to question him.
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His omnipotence can sense your insolence, infidel!
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Wasserman: Jim Harbaugh, Jim Tressel and NCAA nonsense​


What recruiting violation did Harbaugh break that was so unbelievably important? Why would anyone care about this? How deep did this go?

It seems not very deep. We’ve seen some deep scandals in college football in the last decade. This type of stuff isn’t that.

This isn’t 2011 anymore. The NCAA’s day is done. This is a new era of the sport in which everyone is for sale and it’s admirable to be on the take. Ten years ago, this is a groundbreaking issue that calls into question whether the head coach would be able to keep his job. Ten years ago, Harbaugh is an evil cheater who does things the wrong way.

Today? Harbaugh is a winning coach with back-to-back victories over Ohio State and consecutive Big Ten titles and College Football Playoff berths. He also could be the head coach of an NFL team in the next few weeks.

The biggest con in the history of sports was the amateurism model. But more than that, it was how we were brainwashed to react to these types of infractions. We were conditioned to think that anyone who broke an NCAA rule — regardless of the reason or how ridiculous the rule was — was a terrible person. The NCAA criminalized activities that are second nature in a country programmed to pursue wealth.

Regardless of what we were all led to believe about the “Tattoo-gate” scandal that is now more than a decade old, here’s the abridged version of what happened. There was a group of Ohio State football players — one was Pryor, a high-profile quarterback — who were selling their personal possessions for cash and/or services such as free tattoos. When the NCAA caught wind of this, it interviewed Tressel, and he was less than honest about his understanding of the situation and what his players were doing. It may have been misguided, but it was Tressel’s nature to shield his team from the irrational scope of the NCAA, even if it meant lying.

But that was it for Tressel. He was eventually forced to resign amid scandal, and the reputation he built over the previous decade at Ohio State was forever altered.

As for those players? They were suspended for the first five games of the following season but were inexplicably permitted to play in the Sugar Bowl against Arkansas. God forbid there was a revenue hit for that bowl game. Pryor never played in an Ohio State game again after that sham of a Sugar Bowl.

For what? Because they sold their personal possessions?

Time and perspective has healed plenty of the wounds Tressel’s resignation created. But on a day like today — when the mighty Michigan Wolverines, the program that does things the right way at all turns, are in the NCAA’s crosshairs — can we all just agree to let this stuff go? Can we come together to recognize how utterly ridiculous all of this is?

Everyone should remember Tressel for the man he was at Ohio State. Yes, his dominant record against Michigan and national title speak to his on-the-field accomplishments. But you also won’t find anyone who played for Tressel who wouldn’t stand by his side in battle. He was a wonderful man in the community. He made a difference to every single player on his team, and he’s as beloved of a figure as you’ll ever find in the Ohio State football record books.
 

Plato said:
It seems the cover-up is always worse than the crime.
Harbaugh has a bit of a messianic complex and thinks mere mortals have no right to question him.
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This is literally true in the rules.
Covering up a level 2 violation is a level 1 violation
 

Some guy said:
This is literally true in the rules.
Covering up a level 2 violation is a level 1 violation
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Indeed, that is what did in the Sweater Vest coach at tOSU over free tattoos for some of his players and the BB coach Pearl over an illegal contact of a recruit.
 



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