The NCAA slapped former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh with a four-year show-cause order on Wednesday for impermissible contact with recruits and players during the COVID-19 dead period in 2021.The order runs through Aug. 6, 2028. “Subsumed in the show-cause order is a one-season suspension for Harbaugh,” the NCAA said.Harbaugh, who led the Wolverines to the national championship last season, left Michigan in January to become the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. He signed a five-year contract.In its 48-page report, the NCAA said Harbaugh “engaged in unethical conduct, failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance and violated head coach responsibility obligations.”The school had already agreed to a three-year probation in April and was fined by the NCAA.The NCAA charged Harbaugh with a Level I violation of “misleading investigators.””During the investigation in this case, Harbaugh denied meeting with the two prospects,” the report reads. “Initially, he told Michigan and the enforcement staff that he had no recollection of meeting either prospect or their fathers.”In a subsequent interview he went further, unequivocally disputing that either meeting happened. Despite his denials, the weight of the factual information — including statements from the prospects, their fathers, and other football staff members, as well as documentation such as receipts and expense reports — demonstrates that Harbaugh was physically present and engaged in these meetings.”