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U-M's Harbaugh talks player pay, recruiting and more

Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh is concerned about the movement for college players to be paid.

This week's opponent, Northwestern, was in the middle of it for a year and a half, as a number of its players tried to unionize.

Though that eventually was rejected by the National Labor Relations Board, the topic is a constant discussion.

"The one thing they probably need to look at is, if they are paid something and they become employees, there would be a real chance that they would be taxed, that their scholarship would be taxed as a taxable benefit," Harbaugh said on the Big Ten conference call today.