Paul Finebaum blasts Jim Harbaugh, Michigan for horrible week on and off the field

It’s been a difficult week for Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh. After losing the Fiesta Bowl, which was a College Football Playoff semifinal, to TCU, rumors started to swirl that he was leaving for the NFL. Now, the NCAA has leveled a notice of allegations against him and the Michigan program.

ESPN college football analyst Paul Finebaum appeared on Get Up, where he blasted Harbaugh for the week he’s had.

“Has anyone had a worse week than Jim Harbaugh, other than perhaps Kevin McCarthy?” Paul Finebaum joked.

“I don’t know where to begin here with everything that’s happened since last Saturday afternoon when they lost the semifinal game. I think the one thing you have to keep in mind here if you’re looking at this through a very narrow lens is the NCAA has very little power anymore. So, the odds of something significant happening to Jim Harbaugh are nil. This isn’t 15 years ago when Jim Tressel got fired over the Terrelle Pryor situation. I don’t think that’s gonna happen. I don’t think anything’s gonna happen, frankly, other than a minor sanction.”

As Finebaum pointed out, the issue isn’t necessarily what the NCAA might do. The issue is that nobody knows for sure what Harbaugh’s next move is, as he continues to seemingly flirt with the NFL.

“The real issue isn’t whether Jim Harbaugh gets sanctioned. It’s whether he leaves. He issued a statement yesterday that I’m still trying to understand, Greeny, saying that he expects, expects, to be at Michigan in 2023. Now, what does that mean? It doesn’t really mean anything. He didn’t have to issue a statement at all. Basically, he’s just calling more attention to himself that Denver and Carolina and maybe others, including Indianapolis, are going to look at him as an NFL head coach.”

Paul Finebaum took a shot at the Big Ten for bowl season

Paul Finebaum was also highly critical of Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, who reportedly interviewed for a job with the Chicago Bears, for the conference’s performance in bowl season.

“Only Penn State saved the day. I concur, and to me, it’s not the Rose Bowl if you don’t see the sun set over the San Gabriel Mountains. I mean that was not your grandfather’s Rose Bowl yesterday, that was a slogfest,” Finebaum said.

“And it doesn’t matter, because your two best teams lost, and I don’t care how they lost they still lost, and the fact that your commissioner, Greg, is interviewing at the Chicago Bears is all you need to know about the Big Ten.”