The NCAA handed down one of the most severe penalties in recent memory to former Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh, issuing a 10-year show-cause order that begins in 2028 after the completion of a separate four-year show-cause from a previous case. The ruling stems from a lengthy investigation into an off-campus, in-person scouting scheme orchestrated by former staffer Connor Stalions, along with other violations involving impermissible recruiting inducements, communications and repeated failures to cooperate with NCAA investigators.

A show-cause penalty is one of the NCAA's harshest punishments. It requires any NCAA school that wants to hire the penalized coach to formally demonstrate that they can do so without violating NCAA rules. In practice, it effectively bars the coach fr

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