Harbaugh no longer Michigan’s honorary captain

• Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Elder WriterAug 13, 2024, 02:35 PM ET

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Harbaugh will no longer function as honorary captain for the Wolverines’season opener, as he continues to get ready for his first season as Los Angeles Chargers coach.Wolverines coach Sherrone Moore said Tuesday that Harbaugh called

Monday to state he won’t be participating in Michigan’s Aug. 31 game against Fresno State, when the team will celebrate its championship game at Michigan Arena. According to Moore, Harbaugh stated he wished to stay concentrated on his very first Chargers group and not remove from the 2024 Wolverines squad.The Chargers open the season Sept. 8 against Las Vegas.Harbaugh’s moms and dads, Jack and Jackie Harbaugh, will stand in for him at the Aug. 31 opener. Jack Harbaugh was a Michigan assistant

under Bo Schembechler from 1973 to 1979 and later functioned as head coach at Western Michigan and Western Kentucky.Last week, the NCAA revealed a four-year show-cause order for Harbaugh, due to impermissible recruiting infractions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly after the NCAA’s judgment, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel told the”1 Star Recruits” podcast that Harbaugh had accepted an invitation to act as honorary captain for the opener.Moore likewise addressed his own participation in a different NCAA examination into the sign-stealing operation apparently orchestrated by previous Michigan staff member Connor Stalions. According to a draft of the

NCAA’s notification of allegations to Michigan, gotten by ESPN, Moore might deal with a suspension and other charges for presumably erasing a thread of 52 text messages with Stalions in October 2023. According to the draft, Moore’s texts later were recovered and he turned them over to NCAA enforcement personnel. Moore said Tuesday that Michigan is completely complying with the NCAA infractions process and included of the text thread:”I anticipate them being launched. “Although Moore is accused of dedicating a Level II offense, according to the draft– Level I infractions are considered the most major– he might be identified a repeat violator by the NCAA after reaching a negotiated resolutions for offenses in the different recruiting infractions case that resulted in Harbaugh’s show-cause order. Moore was suspended for the 2023 season opener as part of the university’s worked out resolution.