A former Michigan football recruiting director told the NCAA that Jim Harbaugh cultivated a culture of indifference during the COVID-19 dead period, imploring Wolverine staffers to "go up to the line and cross it."
The former director made that statement to the NCAA in multiple interviews with enforcement staff and investigators conducted in 2022. The NCAA revealed the director's statement in a 48-page report issued Wednesday, soon after the organization handed Harbaugh a four-year show-cause penalty for violations he committed during the pandemic-related dead period.
According to the NCAA Division 1 Committee on Infractions, Harbaugh "violated recruiting and inducement rules, engaged in unethical conduct, failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance and violated head coach responsibility obligations.