As news of the Las Vegas Raiders' firing spree settled Wednesday afternoon, with the franchise cutting loose head coach Josh McDaniels, general manager Dave Ziegler and offensive coordinator Mick Lombardi, a slow simmer of what happens next began to spread into various corners of the league and throughout agent circles.
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, front left, watches against Rutgers as analytics assistant Connor Stalions, right, looks on during an NCAA college football game in Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 23, 2023. Stalions was suspended by the university last week and is at the center of a sign-stealing scheme that is being investigated by the NCAA. began to spread into various corners of the league and throughout agent circles.
If this feels like an echo from 2014 and 2022, that’s because in may ways it is. The Raiders and Davis were rumored to be interested in Harbaugh in late 2014, when it was clear a messy divorce with the San Francisco 49ers was in the NFL’s pipeline. The pursuit was rumored again in 2022, when Harbaugh had finally turned a corner with the Michigan program and was in line for a reworked contract.
In a show of solidarity for the NCAA’s determination and while also weighing the fact that former and current Buckeyes players were being forced to serve out their penalties in the NCAA and NFL, the Colts and Tressel moved to effectively suspended his employment by the team until the seventh game of the season.
More than 12 years later and with Harbaugh and the Wolverines under NCAA investigation, it raises the question of whether Goodell or an NFL team could revisit the Tressel decision and again hold a coach responsible for sanctions at the NFL level. At this time, nobody across the NFL seems to know the answer to that.
Nothing has happened yet that would suggest there’s a certainty of Harbaugh facing sanctions. The NCAA’s investigation is still ongoing. Any determinations by investigators are subject to a long and drawn out appeals process that could take months, if not years. Even the initial thrust of NCAA determinations are long and drawn out. For example, per NCAA bylaws, if a notice of infractions was delivered by the NCAA to Michigan, the school would have 90 days to respond.
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