Jim Harbaugh to file complaints after 'egregious' hit on Wilton Speight

— -- ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh says it was an "egregious" hit that injured Wilton Speight and that the facilities at Purdue weren't sufficient to handle the Wolverines quarterback's injury.

"If I had a stronger word to use, I would use it," Harbaugh said Monday afternoon. "With all the emphasis on protecting defenseless players, it appeared that the player knew what he was doing. He targeted the head. [Speight] was on the ground, and he accelerated."

Speight left Saturday's win over the Boilermakers after he was sacked in the first quarter. After Speight took a hit from Boilermakers sophomore linebacker Markus Bailey, junior defensive tackle Eddie Wilson hit Speight in the head and neck area as he fell to the ground.

Harbaugh said he was surprised that the play wasn't flagged as a targeting personal foul. The coach said he planned to contact the Big Ten offices to lodge a complaint about the lack of a penalty.

He also said he wants Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and other head coaches to establish a better standard for visiting team facilities inside stadiums around the conference to make sure that player safety was put above "gamesmanship."

Speight was taken to a nearby health center after the injury for X-rays because the coach said Ross-Ade Stadium's medical facilities weren't sufficient to address the issue on site.

"I wish I would've taken a picture of the actual table that is given to the visitors to put players on when they're injured," Harbaugh said. "It looked like it was from the '20s. It's ripped. It's just not good. I think that's a pattern in the Big Ten."

After three seasons of visiting other Big Ten stadiums, Harbaugh said he felt that some teams made conscious efforts to provide lousy accommodations to give the home team an advantage on the field. He said the Big Ten has been worse in this regard than his experience in the Pac-12 and defensive coordinator Don Brown's experience in the ACC. He called Purdue's locker room unsanitary and "unsportsmanlike."

"It's 2017," Harbaugh said. "There have been advancements, and our stadiums need to reflect that. Visiting locker rooms need to reflect that. Gamesmanship should cease at the line of health and safety for the players."

Michigan gave its players an option to sit on the team bus prior to kickoff at Purdue on an unseasonably warm Saturday because the bus, unlike their locker room, had air conditioning.

"It was such a tight, cramped environment," Harbaugh said. "You have to do open the doors to get some kind of ventilation going in a very small area. People are walking by and watching you dress. The number of urinals or bathrooms for the players and staff, I think there were two. There's not even a private door around [the bathroom area]."

Harbaugh said he hopes his program can help spearhead an initiative to make sure that Big Ten teams are doing a better job of taking care of their guests.?Harbaugh and Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel discussed what upgrades their stadium needed this weekend to try to make sure Michigan could "lead the way" in those efforts.

"What can we do to make sure that ours is as good as well and come up with a whole protocol of what the standard should look like and hope all the teams follow it, request that they do," Harbaugh said. "Together we should be able to do this.

"I urge my fellow coaches to weigh in as well and get their thoughts. I think it's something we can all agree on."

Harbaugh said he hoped that Delany would address the issue immediately.

Speight would be out if the Wolverines had a game this weekend, Harbaugh said. No. 7 Michigan has a bye, but it's not clear when Speight will be healthy enough to return.

"If we were playing a game this week, he wouldn't be able to play," Harbaugh said. "We'll assess it as we go."

Harbaugh said after the game that Speight had a "soft tissue injury" and declined to go into further detail Monday.

Fifth-year senior John O'Korn replaced Speight and led Michigan to a 28-10 victory. He completed 18 of 26 pass attempts for 270 yards and one touchdown.