NCAA hits Jim Harbaugh with 4-year show cause

(Photo credit: Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK)The NCAA slapped former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh with a four-year show-cause order on Wednesday for impermissible contact with recruits and players during the COVID-19 dead period in 2021.

The order runs through Aug. 6, 2028. "Subsumed in the show-cause order is a one-season suspension for Harbaugh," the NCAA said.

Harbaugh, who led the Wolverines to t