Former Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh has received a lot of negative press for his role in the sign-stealing scandal with the Wolverines, but that didn’t stop him from adding fuel to the fire directed at the NCAA.
In a recent interview with ESPN’s Kris Rhim, Harbaugh made his stance on the organization known for their constant mismanagement of college athletics.
“They’ve been keeping money away from players for decades,” Harbaugh said. “They just got hit with a $2.7 billion lawsuit. They have no credibility. That’s the truth.”
When addressing rumors surrounding the Michigan sign-stealing scandal and Connor Stalions at a Chargers press conference, Harbaugh said, “Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal. I was raised with that lesson. I have raised my family on that lesson. I have preached that lesson to the teams that I have coached. No one is perfect. If you stumble, you apologize, and you make it right. Today, I do not apologize. I did not participate, and I was not aware of or complicit in those allegations. So, it’s back to work and attacking with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.”
While Harbaugh gets set to take on a new challenge back in the NFL, those at Michigan still have some stuff to worry about. In a recent NOA draft, Michigan’s new head coach, Sherrone Moore, was one of seven names accused of violating NCAA rules.
According to the NCAA’s notice of allegation draft obtained by ESPN, “Moore could face a show-cause penalty and possibly a suspension for allegedly deleting a thread of 52 text messages with former Michigan staffer Connor Stalions in October 2023 on the same day that media reports revealed Stalions was leading an effort to capture the playcalling signals of future opponents. The draft states that the texts were later recovered via ‘device imaging,’ and Moore ‘subsequently produced them to the enforcement staff.’ Moore is accused of committing a Level 2 violation.”
“We’re going to fight when we need to fight, but also where we have made mistakes, we’re going to admit them and deal with it,” Michigan AD Warde Manuel said in an interview with The Michigan Insider. “And so, I don’t want people to think because we don’t talk about it publicly, and I can’t, that we’re not going to fight for what we think is right for the University of Michigan and for the people that are here. We are.”
