Amid the ongoing investigation into Michigan’s alleged sign-stealing scandal, the Big Ten is reportedly ready to give its response to the Wolverines ahead of their matchup against Penn State.
According to ESPN’s Heather Dinich, the Big Ten is expected to give Michigan a response early in the afternoon on Friday, Nov, 10. Dinich gave the latest in an update on the Worldwide Leader’s morning programming on Friday, as a showdown between the University of Michigan football program and the Big Ten looms.
Sources indicate that the Big Ten will give Michigan a response early this afternoon,” Dinich said Friday on Get Up, via On3. “Michigan leaves at 1 p.m., they’ll fly mid-afternoon… Last night, Michigan sources indicated to me and my colleague that they had not had any communication with the Big Ten and there still has not been evidence presented to Michigan that Jim Harbaugh knew, orchestrated any of this, or lied.”
The Big Ten, we’ve learned, has considered the gamut of punishments,” she added. “Now, we’re hearing this morning, it could be a three-game suspension, which would be significant and it could start this weekend.”
Jim Harbaugh’s attorney, Tom Mars, told ESPN college football insider Pete Thamel that he fully expects Harbaugh to fly with the team to State College, PA.
“I’m confident he’s going to be on that plane one way or another,” Mars said.
That doesn’t mean he’s confident that the Big Ten won’t crack down on Harbaugh and his program, with Mars telling ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg, “We’re prepared for every scenario.”
It’s shaping up to be quite the afternoon in Ann Arbor — or on the flight path to Penn State — as Harbaugh could potentially be facing his second three-game suspension of the 2023 season.
[Pete Thamel, Adam Rittenberg on X]
