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Michael Rosenberg

The Big Ten Should Resist Mob Pressure on Michigan

Big Ten coaches have been pushing commissioner Tony Petitti to come down hard on Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh for his program’s alleged sign-stealing operation—as one coach told ESPN: “What are we waiting on? We know what happened.” This raises the question: If the NCAA enforcement staff is still gathering information, how do other coaches know what happened?

Coaches have good reasons to be concerned and suspicious. But a conference commissioner should not suspend somebody before an investigation is finished because other coaches are mad. Anybody with a basic sense of fairness should understand that.

Harbaugh and the Wolverines are scheduled to face Penn State in State College on Saturday.

Junfu Han/USA TODAY NETWORK

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