The University of Michigan Should Be Ashamed

Jim Harbaugh’s on very thin ice and so is the university.

Michigan Football has always pretended to be an elite program while refraining from doing anything implying they are. Jim Harbaugh’s contract was just extended in a small “mini deal.” After not performing for five years, Michigan gave him a smaller contract at half of his original salary, but still a fun $4 million per year.

This past month has not been kind to Michigan, for good reason.

In February, allegations surfaced about Michigan’s team doctor, Robert Anderson, who worked for the school from 1968–2003.

Tad Deluca, a wrestler who attended the school from 1972–1976, said Anderson was known as “Dr. Drop Your Drawers Anderson.” He said he went to Anderson for a dislocated elbow and he ended up receiving penis, hernia, and prostate checks.

Now, Jim Harbaugh is on record defending Bo Schembechler, who he claims didn’t know about the abuse. “There’s nothing that ever was swept under the rug or ignored,” he said. “He addressed everything in a timely fashion. That’s the Bo Schembechler that I knew.”

Harbaugh’s treading on thin ice. Not only is he now implying that all of Anderson’s abuse victims are lying about consoling in the team’s head coach, but…