Paul Finebaum blasts NCAA as piling on to Jim Harbaugh

You know the situation has grown incredibly one-sided when Paul Finebaum is coming to Jim Harbaugh’s defense.

The ESPN college football analyst with SEC ties has long been a Harbaugh detractor to the point where he and Harbaugh got into it on Twitter some years back. But with the NCAA leaking through Yahoo and ESPN its newest investigation into Michigan football, Finebaum sees it for what it is: a witch hunt.

Appearing on “Get Up!” on Friday morning, Finebaum says the NCAA is piling on, noting that what appears to be happening in Ann Arbor happens at every school.

“On the surface it is a bad look for Jim Harbaugh, but Greeny, in understanding the NCAA and its enforcement division right now, it’s hard for me to imagine that they’ll be able to make a solid case,” Finebaum said. “It does look bad. There have been allegations out there in the past, but it does seem like it would be a close call by the NCAA, and I sense that there’s some piling on here to Jim Harbaugh. He turned his nose to them a couple of months ago, which, as you remember, during this investigation, and it seems to me like selective prosecution. That doesn’t mean that some of this didn’t happen. I frankly think that’s happened almost everywhere, not to the degree that the story is laid out here. But it’s a very gray area, and I think if this had been someone else, this investigation probably would not have gotten to this point.”

Story originally appeared on Wolverines Wire