Wolverine TV podcast: Reacting to Jim Harbaugh's suspension w/ Doug Karsch
Michigan is once again the talk of the college football world after a self-imposed suspension of head coach Jim Harbaugh for the first three games of the season. It was another turn in the Harbaugh/NCAA saga that looked like it would be pushed into 2024.
The Wolverine’s John Borton and co-host Tom Crawford discussed the matter with Doug Karsch, play-by-play voice of Michigan football and radio host of 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit. Karsch is taking the wait-and-see approach with so many layers to the Harbaugh situation.
“There’s a lot at play here,” Karsch said on Tuesday night’s live show. “In covering these things for years. I’ve discovered that it is best to let the processes play out before I get too deep into guilt or innocence. I truly believe that if you have broken a rule, then accept the punishment and move on. If at the end of this, it’s three games or four games or six games or eight games or whatever you accept it, you vow to do better and you move on.
“I believe in due process, right? I remember years ago, there was a charge against Mark D’Antonio in East Lansing over an improper firing of an employee that ended up with a group coming in and investigating. And at the end of that, they found no wrongdoing. I’ve often preached patience. Everybody wants to rush to judgment on these things. I talked to Dan Wetzel today at Yahoo Sports, and he said he thinks this is probably the bulk of this story. By the time we get around to a hearing in January or February, it’s probably going to calm down. Cooler heads will prevail.
“It feels a little bit personal because the NCAA did something they’ve never done before, which is come out and speak directly to fans and message board posters as it pertains to that. It’s just a cheeseburger because nobody it’s not just a cheeseburger, right? To me to have that as an official statement, it sounds like it’s gotten personal to them. Nobody at Michigan said that Jim Harbaugh said it. So they’re responding to fans, which is a unique case circumstance for this thing. I’m not rushing to judgment.
“I think that it seems so incredibly unlikely that someone would lie over secondary violations. That’s a virtual slap on the wrist. Why would you mislead investigators over secondary violation accusations? It just doesn’t make sense to me. And I doubt it makes sense or would make sense to Jim Harbaugh. And he has been adamant about having nothing to be ashamed of and, and that someday he will say his piece. And I look forward to it.”
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