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The NCAA finally announced its punishment for Jim Harbaugh for “unethical conduct and recruiting violations” during his years as head coach of the Michigan Wolverines by slapping him with a four-year show-cause penalty through August of 2028.
Colin Cowherd has a take on the punishment and believes that the NCAA dropped the ball on this one.
In a recent episode of The Herd, Cowherd criticized the NCAA for the punishment, saying “It means nothing. Harbaugh is never going back to college football.”
“It means nothing. Harbaugh is never going back to college football.”
— @ColinCowherd on NCAA announcing four-year-show-cause order for Michigan’s former head coach pic.twitter.com/WapZ3LQIEm
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) August 7, 2024
According to the NCAA’s official site, the show-cause punishment means “Harbaugh would be barred from all athletically related activities, including team travel, practice, video study, recruiting and team meetings, at any NCAA school that employed him. Additionally, if hired during the show-cause order, Harbaugh would be suspended for 100 percent of the first season of employment. The results of those contests during Harbaugh’s suspension would not count toward his career coaching record.”
Cowherd noted how much more college coaches have to work due to recruiting and says that Harbaugh will never go back after finally winning a championship at his alma mater and landing another head coaching job in the NFL in sunny southern California.
Harbaugh has also declined to apologize because he said he didn’t participate in any wrongdoing.
It’s a fair take, but there’s not much the NCAA can do since Harbaugh left and likely isn’t coming back, so there is no basis to actively punish him unless the NCAA wanted to go the route of vacating wins or taking away Michigan’s championship.
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