Michigan timeline -- Sign stealing, coaching turnover, Jim Harbaugh suspension - ESPN

It's been an eventful year at Michigan.

Long before the sign-stealing allegations and long before the football team steamrolled opponents to a 9-0 record while seeking its third consecutive College Football Playoff berth, the Wolverines have been surrounded by controversy.

It started days into the new year, when, on one day, Michigan received an NCAA notice of allegations regarding recruiting violations and put out a statement that Jim Harbaugh, despite his NFL overtures, would be staying in Ann Arbor for 2023.

From there, things only got stranger. There was the assistant fired for «computer access crimes» and another staffer, who happened to be the son of legendary coach Bo Schembechler, resigning three days after being hired because of his social media activity.

Michigan has continued to thrive on the field in spite of all the chaos. Harbaugh will serve a second suspension of the year after the Big Ten banned him from the final three games of the regular season for violating the league's sportsmanship policy. (He missed the first three games as the school self-imposed a penalty related to the recruiting violations.)

If you've had trouble keeping up, here's a full rundown of the past 10 months of drama in Ann Arbor.

Jan. 5: Michigan receives a draft of an NCAA notice of allegations, which alleges violations of impermissible contact with recruits during NCAA-mandated dead periods, as well as an off-field analyst being involved in on-field coaching activities, a violation of NCAA rules. It is reported that Harbaugh allegedly met recruits and bought them hamburgers at a restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

On the same day, Harbaugh issued a statement on university president Santa Ono's Twitter account, one in which he