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Michigan Football’s Off-Field Matters Can’t Be Ignored

Harbaugh shrugged.

Tuesday afternoon, video went viral of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh doing what he does—grandstanding while recruiting. He was in Bellevue, Wash., at the school of a four-star class of 2024 tight-end prospect who has committed to the Wolverines. This seemed like a fine opportunity to get in a quick farmer’s carry workout, complete with shoulder shrugs, while wearing slacks and a button-down shirt.

What surfaced later Tuesday was not the kind of thing that could be shrugged off. Harbaugh’s co-offensive coordinator, Matt Weiss, was placed on leave amid a university police investigation of “a report of computer access crimes that occurred at Schembechler Hall during Dec.