It wasn’t your usual Friday in the middle of training camp.
While Michigan prepared for its second scrimmage of the preseason, the NCAA issued a blistering 74-page report on its two-year probe of the Wolverines’ football program and extraordinary advance scouting operation.
Several of the major players (Connor Stalions, Jim Harbaugh) are no longer in Ann Arbor, but that didn’t stop the NCAA from issuing a hefty monetary fine, a suspension of head coach Jim Harbaugh and other restrictions.
Here’s what we learned from the report.
1. A hammer? Not quite
But it hit hard enough. Michigan was portrayed as a rogue, rule-breaking football program eligible to receive a multi-year postseason ban. Instead, the Wolverines got hit in other ways : Four years of additional probation, fines estimat