While it's hard to make light of a severe punishment from the NCAA, Harbaugh's attorney had a great take.
. On Wednesday, Jim Harbaugh was hit with a four-year show cause and a one-year suspension if he ever chose to return to the college football ranks as a coach. This all stems from the COVID-19 dead period in which Harbaugh "violated recruiting and inducement rules, engaged in unethical conduct, failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance and violated head coach responsibility obligations", according to the NCAA.
The show cause begins on Wednesday, August 7th, 2024, and will end four years from now. If Harbaugh would choose to come back to coach college, he would serve a season suspension and couldn't attend any athletic events, meetings, or any team activities. Harbaugh left Michigan after winning a national championship last season and is back in the NFL with the Los Angeles Chargers. It's unlikely Harbaugh ever coaches in the college ranks again, let alone within the next four years. Tom Mars, Harbaugh's long-time attorney, went to X and ripped the NCAA to shreds after the news was released. He compared Harbaugh's suspension to someone being in college and getting suspended by their former high school -- a place they no longer attend.
"The way I see it, from Coach Harbaugh's perspective, today's COI decision is like being in your college and getting a letter from your high school saying you've been suspended because you didn't sign the yearbook. If I were in Coach Harbaugh's shoes and had an $80 million contract as a head coach of the Chargers, I wouldn't pay any attention to the findings of a kangaroo court which claims to represent the principles of the nation's most flagrant, repeat violator of the federal antitrust laws.
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