Charles Woodson rips Jim Harbaugh suspension: ‘This is bullshit’

After the craziest week of news yet regarding the Michigan sign stealing saga, former Wolverine Charles Woodson is over the whole ordeal and had some choice words for the scandal altogether during his appearance on Saturday’s Big Noon Kickoff.

The latest development occurred Friday when the Big Ten announced a suspension of Jim Harbaugh, banning him from attending the team’s final three regular season games while allowing him to coach in the week of practices leading up. Woodson let it rip on how he really feels about the scandal as a whole:

“Am I mad? I’m only mad because I think the whole thing is bullshit.”

When looking into the details on the scandal, Woodson just can’t seem to wrap his head around why Harbaugh is facing such steep penalties when he doesn’t appear to be involved in the sign-stealing in any capacity.

“Well, I just listened to all of the implications, and it seemed like none of the implications implicated Harbaugh. It only tells you about Connor Stalions and what he did. And I don’t know if he as a rogue agent, if he was out there doing this all on his own.”

Woodson continued, admitting he’s not sure whether Stalions was a mastermind or not, but he certainly hasn’t seen any evidence to date that Jim Harbaugh is directly involved with the scandal.

“In my humble opinion, I do not believe that Harbaugh knew what this young man was doing. Now, was there someone on the staff who Stalions was talking to that knew and was maybe taking some of these signs? I don’t know that, and I can’t say it with certainty, and the NCAA didn’t say it with certainty, and Tony Petitti didn’t say it with certainty. So nobody can say that Harbaugh knew.”

To him, if the issue comes down to one staffer filming sidelines, that’s just not something worth derailing a season over.

“They can only say, okay, this guy was in the stands with people, doing video tapes with iPhones — there’s going to be 100,000 people in the stands today with iPhones, right. Anybody can video tape signs.”

Either way, Charles Woodson expects a thorough beatdown from Michigan on Penn State. He’s of the belief that these Wolverine players will come to hit extra hard and compete more intensely than ever for the sake of their head coach. It’s Nittany Lions vs. Wolverines coming up at noontime.