58. "The question for me is the timing of the punishment. " In response to In response to 57
When you bring up loss of institutional control - that is an NCAA punishment handed out after a full NCAA investigation has taken place. There has been no notice of an NCAA allegations handed to Michigan yet. Typically there is first a full investigation, leading to a notice of allegations. If they do serve that notice, Michigan has 90 days to respond.
The Big Ten has the ability to give punishment separate from the NCAA, and without the 90 response period based on sportsmanship policy, not not based on LOIC. But it's a can of worms if the Big Ten does this for "sportsmanship" with no investigation if there's not a proven connection to Harbaugh being directly involved or knowing about Stallions sending people to record games.
I think it's 50/50 that the Big Ten still does suspend Harbaugh this week, and if so I'd expect Michigan to respond with a temporary restraining order, and I'd expect it to get even more messy from there with Michigan bringing up dirt on other schools. I think that's usually a VERY weak defense ("they are doing it tooooooooooo!!!"), but actually appropriate in this case since it would be the Big Ten handing out penalties without an investigation based on "sportsmanship" is there really isn't a degree of "sportsmanship" across the conference with other schools sharing and using advance scouting reports on Michigan's signs, among other dirt Michigan may bring forward.