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Former Michigan alum Desmond Howard is going hard to defend his alma mater.
On Friday, Howard appeared on ESPN’s ‘Get Up’ and went off on the Big Ten for considering punishing Michigan over their sign-steaking scandal.
A fired-up Howard believes the Big Ten is being “emotional” due to the backlash from the media.
“What Michigan is asking for seems to be fair when they ask for due process,” Howard said. “What has happened in this whole scenario, this whole narrative, Greeny, is that because the coverage has been so intense, it’s created this groundswell of emotion. And because of this groundswell of emotion, that’s what it seems (Tony) Petitti is responding to.
“Due process is in place so you don’t act emotionally. You let the facts come out and you let the process work through everything it’s supposed to in gathering facts and information. That’s all Michigan is asking for. It seems like the groundswell of emotion wants the Big Ten to circumvent what’s going on with the NCAA.”
Howard insists that the SEC wouldn’t punish Alabama if other schools in their conference complained about them.
“And I tell you what, Greeny, and Paul (Finebaum) knows this too; this would never happen in the SEC,” “The SEC Commissioner would never, ever let Vanderbilt and Kentucky and all these other universities say, ‘Hey, you need to punish Nick Saban and Alabama right now. We know they’re on a quest to win the national championship but to hell with that. You need to punish them right now.’ He would kick them out of his office. That would never happen. It’s just a lot of money at stake too, Greeny, you got to understand that. It’s like $6 million per team.”
Desmond Howard, unsurprisingly, is upset about potential discipline coming soon for Jim Harbaugh and Michigan from the Big Ten.
"You know Greg this would never happen in the SEC. Are you telling me they would do this to Nick Saban and Alabama? Hell no!" pic.twitter.com/FfKMbDMLVL
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) November 10, 2023
As of now it, reports claim that Michigan is bracing for the Big Ten to suspend Jim Harbaugh but the conference has yet to make a decision before the team’s game against Penn State on Satrday.