The Big Ten is understood to have been prepared to change Jim Harbaugh’s suspension after issuing a three-game ban against the Michigan head coach.
Harbaugh, who has already served one game, will sit out this weekend’s game against Maryland, as well as the final regular-season game against Ohio State due to the suspension.
The Wolverines filed for a temporary restraining order but did not get a response in a timely enough fashion, which meant Harbaugh had to miss his team’s win over Penn State last weekend.
The program has since given up in their attempts to get Harbaugh back on the sidelines as they have accepted the Big Ten’s decision. However, a new report is claiming that they could have gotten the ban reduced to two games had they stayed the course as the conference was prepared to make it two games instead of three.
That would have permitted the HC to be involved in his team’s biggest game of the season, but that was before yet another twist emerged.
The Big Ten is said to have gotten new information pertaining to the sign-stealing investigation being undertaken by the NCAA which ultimately convinced the Wolverines to accept the suspension.
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The probe is believed to have uncovered evidence of a booster assisting the scouting operation and an assistant coach destroying the trail after news of the alleged sign stealing surfaced. Harbaugh was not directly implicated, yet it was enough to get Michigan to back down from its appeal.
