The dealing with of the Michigan sign-stealing scandal has been a debacle from the beginning, and it culminated Friday with the Massive Ten suspending coach Jim Harbaugh for the ultimate three video games. U-M filed a brief restraining order in opposition to its personal convention that it hopes could be expedited earlier than kickoff at midday EST. Two of these contests Harbaugh is slated to overlook are the Wolverines’ solely in opposition to high 10 groups within the common season so it’s no shock that one last-second heave was met with one other.

You realize an investigation was botched when it makes Roger Goodell appear like a seasoned choose. The bulletin board materials, for a group that began the season with out its head coach for 4 video games, was readily acknowledged with members of the Wolverines tweeting “Guess” after the ruling was handed out.

So far as infractions are involved, I’ve by no means seen one meted out midseason. Massive Ten commissioner Tony Petitti’s determination to go forward with a punishment that was so clearly going to be challenged felt like one thing Donald Trump would do exactly to flex his authority/be a dick.

The top of this school soccer season now revolves round Ann Arbor, or wherever the Wolverines are taking part in, which in the present day is Glad Valley. Prayers up for James Franklin and the Nittany Lion offense.

The one factor that may’t be ignored is the unintentional comedy the Harbaugh ban has sparked. Nobody is louder than a slighted faculty soccer fan base, together with Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson. The place you stand on the difficulty’s morality relies on how you are feeling about Michigan (or the NCAA).

Alternative, or everlasting embarrassment, awaits Franklin and Ryan Day. Think about the backlash in the event that they misplaced to a Harbaugh-less Michigan group? Really, don’t think about that; it’s unhealthy karma if that’s the result you’re rooting for.

That is additional proof that of all of the establishments with out management, the NCAA is 1A. Petitti confirmed as much as the crime scene and large boyed the game’s “governing physique” like brokers Johnson and Johnson did Paul Gleason exterior Nakatomi Tower. There’s a motive B1G colleges went to their commissioner, and never the NCAA.

What I’ve discovered from residing in “Massive Ten nation” the previous two years is Michigan hates Ohio State, Ohio State hates Michigan, and the remainder of the convention hates them each. Wait, wait, wait … did Petitti galaxy mind this whole scenario?

It’s higher to ingratiate your self to the opposite 35 Massive Ten groups, together with one of many energy brokers. So Petitti, understanding that his ruling could be thrown out nearly instantly, levied it anyway in hopes that Michigan followers would forgive him, or no less than deem him a innocent buffoon, and transfer on.

Yeah, I don’t imagine it both, however studying my stream of consciousness in actual time is enjoyable, proper? The one correct assertion within the final paragraph was Petitti is a innocent buffoon.

We’ll see how Michigan responds — on the sphere. I’m not sensible sufficient to know the place this goes within the courts.

Cease me in case you’ve heard this earlier than (or proceed in case you wish to chortle at James Harden)

The Los Angeles Clippers have three Los Angeles natives, and a man from Palmdale. Between them, they’ve two MVPs, two finals MVPs, and two NBA titles. Granted one participant is chargeable for two-thirds of these accolades, it doesn’t make the Clippers much less tragic.

After a 22-point loss in opposition to the Dallas Mavericks in a much-ballyhooed in-season match recreation, the Clips are actually 0-3 when new addition James Harden performs, and 3-5 general. It’s early, but when we are able to’t chortle on the Clippers, what’s the purpose of the Clippers?

Quite a lot of, if not all of, the marquee gamers really feel redundant. The identical goes for the B-squad guards. Not one of the bigs house the ground aside from 38-year-old P.J. Tucker. The upside is that they have 74 extra video games to reprogram every part about the way in which they method the sport.