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There's a Det Free Press article on this topic too by gordonbombay

Dennis Norfleet, who was kicked off the UM football team prior to his senior year, discovered when trying to figure out where to transfer that despite being in school 3 years and accruing a good GPA, that he hadn't come remotely close to being in the neighborhood of actually getting a degree because the school just dumped him into whatever classes they felt like.

This was Hoke's thing, not Harbaugh's, but still, UM has absolutely no ethical ground to stand on when they parade themselves as an elite academic school for athletes.