Jim Harbaugh bristles at the suggestion the three-game suspension he’ll serve at the beginning of this season amounts to a slap on the wrist.
Being barred from the sidelines when Michigan football faces East Carolina, UNLV and Bowling Green in the coming weeks is “more like a baseball bat to the kneecaps or to the shoulder,” he said Monday.
It was a revealing comment that conveyed how Harbaugh felt about a penalty imposed on him by his beloved alma mater as the school grapples with an NCAA probe into impermissible activities by his program and a major Level I violation concerning his alleged lack of cooperation with investigators.