If you ask most college football fans, the general consensus would be that Michigan got off easy from the NCAA on its punishment for its sign-stealing scandal.
The NCAA did ensure that Jim Harbaugh and Connor Stalions won’t return to college football any time soon, however, handing out a 10-year show cause to Harbaugh and an 8-year show cause for Stalions, who orchestrated the impermissible scouting scheme. The 10-year show-cause for Michigan’s former head coach is the second-longest show-cause on record from the NCAA to a football coach and the longest ever given to a leader of a program.