With a punishment for Michigan football and Jim Harbaugh Seemingly looming amid sign-stealing allegations against the Wolverines, a hot topic in the college football world has now become a bipartisan political issue.
Two days after Michigan football reportedly received notice of penalty of the Big Ten, two members of the Michigan House of Representatives – Phil Skaggs, D-East Grand Rapids, and Graham Filler, R-Clinton County – wrote a letter to conference commissioner Tony Petitti, pleading for an investigation before sanction the university. .
“It is absolutely vital that members of the Big Ten Conference receive due process in any investigation, particularly those that may have been initiated by allegations from parties with obvious conflicts of interest,” Skaggs wrote. “We should not punish the dedicated players, coaches and staff of the University of Michigan football program based on incomplete evidence. »
