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How NCAA punished Michigan football for sign-stealing scheme
NCAA released punishment for Michigan football on Aug. 15, 2025, after its investigation into sign-stealing scandal orchestrated by Connor Stalions.
Former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh was hit with essentially an NCAA ban through 2038, but is now with the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers.Urban Meyer, citing precedent with Jim Tressel, wonders why the NFL, Chargers and commissioner Roger Goodell seemingly won’t discipline Harbaugh.Meyer speaks from experience: His first Ohio State team in 2012 had a postseason ban from a previous violation under Jim Tressel, keeping the 12-0 Buckeyes out of the BCS Championship.
Jim Harbaugh won’t really receive any punishment for his lack of oversight of Michigan football while he was head coach.
What’s a 10-year show-cause order — restricting him from all athletically related activities in college football beginning Aug. 7, 2028, at the conclusion of his four-year show-cause order from a previous case on recruiting violations — matter to Harbaugh?
He’s the coach of the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers.
But there is precedent for the NFL to legislate punishment for a coach fleeing college football’s wrath.
Harbaugh’s old enemy, Urban Meyer, pointed that out this week and recalled his own situation at Ohio State with a postseason ban.
In Meyer’s first year at OSU in 2012, his team was in its second year of a postseason ban from a previous violation, keeping the 12-0 Buckeyes out of the Big Ten championship game and BCS Championship.
“There’s an elephant in the room here that no one’s talking about,” Meyer said on “The Triple Option” podcast with Mark Ingram II and Rob Stone, released Wednesday, Aug. 20. “When Jim Tressel was fired by Ohio State and he was given a suspension. Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football…
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