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Paul Finebaum takes shot at Urban Meyer amid Jim Harbaugh, Michigan controversy

Earlier this week, Urban Meyer called for the NFL to somehow honor the NCAA’s punishment of Jim Harbaugh. With that, Paul Finebaum couldn’t believed how much that he finally agreed with the former head coach.

Finebaum reacted to Meyer’s take on a punishment for Harbaugh in an appearance on ‘First Take’ on Friday. He admitted that, to his own surprise, he was in agreement with Meyer for the first time in his life.

“That is the first time in my entire life I’ve ever agreed with anything Urban Meyer has said. He is 100% correct,” said Finebaum. “I mean, I’m in shock that I actually like something that Urban is thinking about, but he’s right.”

This comes after this week’s episode of ‘The Triple Option’ where Meyer wondered why the NFL couldn’t levy a punishment against Harbaugh following the ruling of the sign-stealing scandal last week by the NCAA. He noted the 2011 suspension of Jim Tressel, by the Indianapolis Colts when he was in the NFL at that time as an analyst, following his own violations at the end of his tenure in Columbus in 2010. So, with that in mind, Meyer questioned why the National Football League couldn’t do the same thing now with Harbaugh, the head coach of the Chargers who, as of that outcome last week, is technically on a fourteen-year show-cause in college football after receiving a ten-year show-cause back on Friday.

“There’s an elephant in the room here, boys, though, that no one’s talking about,” Meyer said. “When Jim Tressel was fired by Ohio State and he was given a suspension, Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football League, came out and said that we’re going to honor that violation, that we’re going to honor that suspension. And, you remember. (Tressel) went to the Indianapolis Colts to work in the replay room or something. The Colts, because of the respect they had for the NCAA and the suspension, you realize, suspended Jim Tressel. So he was unable to perform his duties for the first six games of the year for the Indianapolis Colts.”

“I think we all know the answer. Any chance Roger Goodell and the NFL (do the same thing)? Of course not, and I don’t know why,” Meyer said.

The result of the sign-stealing saga last week was mostly several million dollars’ worth of significant fines against the football program at Michigan. Sherrone Moore, the Wolverines’ current head coach who took Harbaugh’s place, was then suspended an additional game for this season on top of the self-imposed two he’ll serve this season. Harbaugh (10 years), Connor Stalions (8 years), and Denard Robinson (3 years) also received show-causes, but with the opinion being that only matters so much to someone Harbaugh as he’s back for a second stint in the NFL and unlikely to ever return to the NCAA anyways.