A thread on a missing link to the Robert Anderson-Michigan football story, as more comes out and we’re left with more questions than answers. I wish we had a former FBI director who worked for administrations on both sides to handle this like Penn State did. And I also agree with something @byAustinMeek recently wrote, we should be prioritizing making the victims whole first. In the meantime, the story is currently hovering over what did Bo know and when did he know it?

Say you never visited a Michigan message board, and didn’t what they were. All you know about Harbaugh/Michigan is the following: Only power five coach headed into lame duck year on his contract.

His AD has publicly refused to state Harbaugh will be the coach next year.

So let’s do some deductive reasoning in this thread, shall we?

Neither Jim Harbaugh or Warde Manuel are nimrods.

Both played big-time college football, and together at Michigan.

One has recruited big-time athletes, the other was once a big-time recruit. So both know what a Signing Day is.

Michigan’s highest-rated defensive recruit is now apparently not signing early with the school after all, after Warde and Jim punted on clarifying the head coach’s status at Tuesday’s presser.

Defense is clearly a recruiting priority.

Thread on some Harbaugh tropes/bromides I've seen and heard this week as a means of rationalizing what's currently going on. Let's start with that 4-8 year Brian Kelly had at ND in 2016, his 7th season there. Why can't Harbaugh just completely overhaul the staff as Kelly did, and now look how good he's been there since?

Thread on if you're the Michigan AD. Y

You cannot possibly extend Harbaugh minus an unforeseeable turnaround. But you cannot go into next year with a lame duck coach, either. Then there's affording buyouts somewhere else for a new coach as well?

What do you do? Well, there are two Hall of Fame coaches sitting out there with no buyouts -- Bob Stoops and Chris Petersen. Their college resumes are clearly superior to Harbaugh's. They are clear resume upgrades. But at their age will they grind? Do they even want to coach again?

If #CollegeFootball doesn't happen this fall, then I believe you won't see it again until the fall of 2021 -- and that is after a good percentage of FBS athletic departments go under. Let me explain why: Unless SARS 2 burns itself out magically and disappears as the first SARS did, there's no way on our current epidemiological curve it will be gone by February or so when this spring football season is supposed to start.

Thread on moving season to the spring.

If no #CollegeFootball this fall, there's going to be mass layoffs without all that revenue. Without that revenue, you can't bring back all the infrastructure it takes to house, train, feed, and educate all those players in the spring. Many programs, even at the power 5 level, live paycheck to paycheck from a cash flow/outlay situation. Meaning they spend what they take in. They're not sitting on massive revenue reserves.

My now annual thread on some noteworthy #CollegeFootball trends heading into a new season, 55 days from today. After losing 4 games in a season only once between 1969 and 2001, Nebraska has lost at least 4 games for 16 straight seasons.