Burgergate: More info from Chris Balas on the level 1 sins of Jim Harbaugh

found the real culprit:

Death penalty.  And not in the program-killing sense.  I mean someone needs to go to the chair for this.  

Can we really believe anything Balas says?

This is satire come to life. 

Harbaugh told the NCAA he put both ketchup and mustard on his burger.  The NCAA, who has been secretly capturing sewage from his office, was unhappy to find no ketchup residue in his shit.

Michigan self-reported the violations, and now Harbaugh wasn't "truthful" about a hamburger.  This is a joke, right?

The burgers were within the NCAA rules but the added cheese was a violation.

First thing's first - collapse the tunnel so this sort of thing never happens again!

I hope this is a joke because if this is actually the reason then Warde better tell the NCAA to piss off and then Jim needs to challenge Mark Emmert to a milk chugging contest to assert dominance.

This can't be serious.... should have gone to Culver's.

Get ready for Harbaugh's 2023 Halloween costume 

Remember Sean Miller lying to the NCAA about negotiating 6 figure payments to players pre-NIL, and then getting caught via FBI wire taps.  The NCAA did not punish him AT ALL, and barely any punishment for Arizona.  Over 6 figure payments in a full on scheme.   We are talking cheeseburgers during a no-contact period here.  

https://arizonasports.com/story/3429330/sean-miller-unscathed-arizona-dinged-ncaa-investigation-ends/#:~:text=The%20Arizona%20Wildcats%20men's%20basketball,(IARP)%20committee%20announced%20Wednesday.

So self impose a 1 scholarship reduction and few official visits for next year and tell the NCAA to fuck off.  

If this is really as innocent as Balas is reporting, I would not blame Harbaugh at all for leaving the college game.  

Why follow the NCAA rules as long as what you are doing is morally sound? It was illegal to help people escape slavery but it was still the right thing to do regardless of what rules the authority at the time had in place. I am not comparing the two but this idea that rules have to be followed because they are rules is ridiculous, particularly when every school cheats period. As long as you are not doing immoral things like faking giving kids their education (UNC) or paying for prostitution (Louisville) who cares. In my opinion within the ncaa framework there is nothing wrong with buying kids food or compensating them in another manner.

Sign the extension Jim! Go Blue! 

Sounds like a nothingburger. I’ll show myself out.

As much as I agree with the general sentiment to burn down the NCAA, it's probably more prudent to let the lawyers work behind the scenes to make this go away with a trip to Dean Wormer's office and a stern talking to.

In this day and age of NIL, we are talking burgers? Mother fucking burgers?

Hold the pickle please.

If Michigan gets any punishment for this it's outrageous. LSU publicly total the NCAA to eff off. For the NCAA to threaten anything to Michigan for hamburgers would be absurd.

I hope the AD doesn't cooperate with this. The only folks who seem to get punished by the NCAA anymore are the ones who cooperate

That's what they got?  For real?

The only crime here was not taking the recruits to Ray's Red Hots around the corner instead - I don't even like hot dogs, but always made an exception for that place.

Absolutely reprehensible behavior.  I’m embarrassed to have a child who’s an alum.

Won’t someone please think of the children 

Should have gone to Blimpy Burger and paid cash.  The NCAA is a joke. 

Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger!

FFS, every team is using NIL to pay players to come there, and the NCAA is coming after us over this, literal, nothingburger?

Fucking great.

edit: Oh, people already made this joke, well the indignation stands.

Honestly, I can't blame Harbaugh for wanting to hightail it out of the NCAA and back to the pros. It got to Beilein after a while. And after all the bullshit Harbaugh has put up with from college football - specifically with regards to the camps and trips rules and the pathetically poor officiating - this almost seems like a ridiculous effort to give him one more push out the door. 

I hope he stays and goes scorched earth on everybody and runs it up on everyone and doesn't lose a game for the next three seasons. That'll be his punishment to the NCAA.

God created the NCAA so that even FIFA would have somebody to laugh at.

OH NO THE HORROR! DEATH PENALTY IT IS THEN.

Who the fuck is they? Is the NCAA following around the southern schools or just people and teams they dont care for?

All this over a few hamburgers. Good grief. 
 

Can we get the NCAA back in front of the Supreme Court again? They seem like they’re ready to dynamite the NCAA.

I was promised a blue wall

(Stealing this from Scott Bell)

This offense is so egregious that the NCAA should wipe the entire 2020 season from the books.

in the morning..... that's the part that got him in trouble.

if it was lunch, sure get a Jug burger... but in the morning, they should have had Hippie Hash at the Fleetwood.