{"id":81998,"date":"2025-01-28T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/michigan-plans-to-fight-ncaa-over-sign-stealing-scandal-vigorously\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:05:30","slug":"michigan-plans-to-fight-ncaa-over-sign-stealing-scandal-vigorously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/michigan-plans-to-fight-ncaa-over-sign-stealing-scandal-vigorously\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan plans to fight NCAA over \u2018sign stealing scandal\u2019 \u2014 vigorously\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

As first reported months ago<\/a><\/strong>, Michigan plans to fight the NCAA in what they said was \u201cmassive overreach\u201d in response to the alleged impermissible scouting scheme led by former staffer Connor Stalions. The U-M response was \u201cvery long,\u201d our sources told us a few weeks back, and Yahoo Sports has now confirmed many of its concerns about the way it was handled. Many of them were laid out in the response to the NCAA\u2019s Notice of Allegations.<\/p>\n

<\/a>From Yahoo<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cIn the 137-page document \u2014 a portion of which Yahoo Sports obtained \u2014 Michigan makes clear that \u2018it will not enter into a negotiated resolution\u2019 with the NCAA over the alleged wrongdoing, vigorously defending its former head coach, current head coach, several staff members, and even Stalions, the low-level assistant who orchestrated\u00a0one of the most elaborate sign-stealing systems in college football history<\/a>\u00a0on the way to\u00a0the school winning the 2023 national championship<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe school purports that the sign-stealing system offered \u2018minimal relevance to competition,\u2019 was not credibly proven by NCAA investigators and should be treated as a minor violation.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>In addition, one of the allegations \u2014\u00a0current head coach Sherrone Moore<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s deleted texts with Stalions \u2014 is a case of more overreach, Michigan argues. It\u2019s the one that \u201cstands as the most serious and impactful for the current state of the program,\u201d Yahoo writes \u2014 \u201cMoore, then an assistant, deleted 52 text messages with Stalions on the very day (Oct. 19, 2023) that\u00a0Yahoo Sports broke the story of the NCAA\u2019s investigation into the school<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn its response, Michigan and Moore acknowledge the deleted messages. However, the school contends that the texts were \u201cinnocuous and not material to the investigation\u201d and that Moore cooperated fully with the investigation, even turning over his phone for imaging \u2014 a move that revealed the previously deleted messages \u2026 and U-M contends none of the texts were specifically about the in-person advanced scouting system.\u201d<\/p>\n

In short, U-M contends there is no evidence current or past coaches knew the details of the operation \u2014\u00a0and in addition, it appears the Michigan stance is that there really is no evidence of wrongdoing based on the evidence presented.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They also argue that \u201cmany of the in-person scouting allegations \u2018do not support the six elements of a completed indirect scouting violation,\u2019 including lack of witness statements or eyewitness evidence that videos were taken from the stands at many of the games in which Stalions purchased tickets.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch for more on this development in the hours to come \u2026<\/p>\n

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