The second shoe has yet to drop in the NCAA's investigation of Michigan football, but the first one has officially touched ground. And Jim Harbaugh was caught wearing the smelly cleat.

The NCAA's Notice of Allegations against the Wolverines recently went public, and while the basics of UM's football follies already had been reported, the devil in the details finally has emerged. And he wears khaki pants.

Before the NCAA reveals what it plans to do about the Michigan spying scandal involving former staffer Connor Stalions, the governing body had to deal with unrelated football violations, including impermissible contact during a COVID-19 recruiting dead period in 2021 and Harbaugh misleading NCAA investigators along the way.

The 11-page NOA was obtained Friday by multiple media outlets through an open-records request made shortly after the document was received by the university on Dec. 18, 2023. According to the response from Michigan’s Freedom of Information office, some information was redacted to prevent an unwarranted invasion of privacy.

What wasn't redacted? Harbaugh's name. No other individual coach or staffer was identified, but the NOA found that Harbaugh engaged in "unethical or dishonest conduct and failure to cooperate" in the 2021 recruiting cases. Clearly, the NCAA wanted it known that Harbaugh was complicit in any wrongdoing. He received a three-game suspension early last season as part of a negotiated settlement between the school and NCAA, then another three-game suspension from the Big Ten related to the impermissible in-person advanced scouting linked to Stalions.

Harbaugh left Michigan for the NFL's Los Angeles Chargers after the Wolverines won the 2023 national championship. That's called skipping town before the authorities close in. Expect him also to be named in the in-person scouting allegations.

Other details of the NOA:

· In the first allegation, involving three recruits and their fathers, a prospect and his father were given access to the football facilities and met with a coach in the weight room. Another recruit and his father received a discounted meal at a Ann Arbor restaurant and also allegedly had a free meal at another restaurant.

· The second allegation involves an unidentified coach who "failed to cooperate and provided misleading or false information," which is backed up by "factual information (that) establishes he met with the football prospective student-athletes and their fathers.”

· The third allegation targets Harbaugh, claiming he violated "NCAA principles of ethical conduct and failed to cooperate” during a 2022 interview with investigators regarding the impermissible in-person and off-campus recruiting contact.

Other allegations include a staffer who participated in on-field coaching activities and the NCAA's conclusion that Michigan failed to monitor itself and “compromised the integrity” of the collegiate model.

My takeaway? Those who insist the Stalions investigation ends with UM receiving little more than a slap on the wrist are failing to see that the 2021 recruiting violations absolutely will impact the punishment the NCAA doles out for Cheatgate. Later infractions compound based on prior acts of disobedience.

The NCAA no longer wields the hammer it once did, but it still has enough tools to torture a program. Bowl bans, scholarship losses and recruiting restrictions, especially relating to NIL, still pack a punitive punch. Michigan may not need to forfeit games and return its national title, but the future feels uncomfortably uncertain, and the Wolverines have Harbaugh to thank for that.

LPGA's Lydia Ko avoids bogey monster

Incredibly impressive golf statistics blow my mind because as someone who plays the game I know how hard it is to avoid the always-lurking hiccup and more-than-occasional throw up. But 27-year-old Lydia Ko somehow has avoided both of those better than anyone on the LPGA Tour. By a lot.

Ko, an almost certain future LPGA Hall of Famer − she needs one more qualifying win/point to join the other 35 inductees − has 131 bogey-free rounds since joining the tour in 2014. How good is that? Golf stats guru Justin Ray reports that over the past decade the next most bogey-free rounds belong to Lizette Salas with 84. Ko compiling 47 more bogey-free rounds than anyone else is hard to fathom.

Listening in

"Way up in the sky, now down, back up, over there, now over here ... " − Snoop Dogg, providing commentary on the Olympic badminton match between the United States and China.

Off-topic

Does anyone else have a mother who can't keep her finger from blocking the camera lens during a FaceTime call? Asking for a friend.

roller@dispatch.com

@rollerCD

Get more Ohio State football news by listening to our podcasts

This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Jim Harbaugh, Michigan football rules violations released by NCAA