{"id":14493,"date":"2023-08-23T18:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T23:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=14493"},"modified":"2023-08-23T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T23:37:34","slug":"joel-klatt-reveals-first-reaction-to-jim-harbaugh-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/joel-klatt-reveals-first-reaction-to-jim-harbaugh-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Klatt reveals first reaction to Jim Harbaugh suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan<\/a><\/strong> announced a three-game suspension for head coach Jim Harbaugh<\/a><\/strong> to start the 2023 football season, a self-imposed sanction as a result of an ongoing NCAA infractions case. It was a decision that sparked many thoughts for Fox Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mostly, though, Klatt found the decision bemusing. It\u2019s just the latest volley in the odd ongoing saga.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the first thing that I remember thinking to myself is like, \u2018Oh my gosh, who cares. What are we doing?\u2019 I don\u2019t know if you had that thought like I did. But that\u2019s immediately what I thought. And then it made me sit there and I think to myself, like, \u2018Well, who would care?’\u201d Klatt said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Klatt, amid an impassioned diatribe against NCAA ineptitude<\/a><\/strong>, explained that this whole Harbaugh-NCAA saga is a crystallization of what ails the governing body of college sports. <\/p>\n

As such, he doesn\u2019t think looking at it through the lens of Michigan and Harbaugh trying to juke a more severe punishment from the NCAA or the NCAA trying to come down hard is the right order of magnitude to consider the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m thinking about all this and I come to the conclusion that, if you\u2019re worried about this particular infraction, if you\u2019re worried about the fairness of the number of games or who imposes the suspension or whether the NCAA will take into account this suspension in the first place, I think that your eyes are in the wrong direction. I don\u2019t think \u2014 that\u2019s a diversion. It\u2019s a diversion,\u201d Klatt said. \u201cAnd you\u2019re probably a Michigan fan or an Ohio State<\/a><\/strong> fan. If you\u2019re sitting there like, \u2018No, Harbaugh, he should have more games, he lied!\u2019 Or you\u2019re a Michigan fan and you\u2019re like, \u2018It was a cheeseburger.\u2019 Somewhere in the middle. Somewhere in the middle.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s not what this is all about, for me. Let\u2019s talk about what this is all about. To me, this is a symptom of a completely broken institution, and that institution is obviously the NCAA. The NCAA is archaic. They are slow. They are inept. And they\u2019re inconsistent. Not good descriptors for an organization that\u2019s the so-called governing body of intercollegiate athletics.\u201d<\/p>\n

With infractions from 2020 getting adjudicated in 2023 over issues that Klatt didn\u2019t seem to think were particularly serious, he thinks this back-and-forth between Michigan and the NCAA is a microcosm of how the NCAA keeps making missteps.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you actually take a step back and you start to view this Harbaugh situation in that vein, then you start to kind of see the bigger picture,\u201d Klatt said.<\/p>\n

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