The college football establishment took a swing at Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh last week. He didn’t wait long to throw a counterpunch.
Less than 72 hours after the NCAA’s five autonomous conferences voted to outlaw future spring practice trips like the one Michigan took to Florida a year ago, Wolverine players were told to prepare their passports. The team is headed to Rome.
Harbaugh tussled with commissioners and head coaches from other conferences during his first two offseasons in Ann Arbor while seeking ways to sniff out new competitive edges and put pressure on opponents to do the same.