NCAA poised to throw the book at U-Michigan Football for multiple violations

[Melensdad]

Rumors are they could vacate their last Championship win and face post season suspension for several upcoming seasons!

There were multiple infractions, including infractions that got coach Jim Harbaugh suspended separately from the team. But the team is now facing recruiting violations and violations of lesser offenses like the stealing of a rival sign. The recruiting violations could put the program in serious jeopardy. Both the university and, separately, several of its coaches, are considered 'habitual' offenders of scouting and recruiting violations.

NCAA to release findings from Michigan football sign-stealing investigation Friday

Michigan finally will learn its punishment from an NCAA investigation into an alleged illegal scouting/sign stealing scheme.

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NCAA to release findings from Michigan football sign-stealing investigation Friday​

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Michigan will finally learn its punishment from a NCAA investigation into an alleged illegal scouting/sign-stealing scheme.​

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The NCAA formally notified all of the involved parties on Thursday morning that the findings will be publicly released on Friday, according to an NCAA email obtained by The Detroit News. The findings will be released by noon.​

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This will be the culmination of an investigation launched Oct. 19, 2023 by the NCAA and that focused on the alleged scheme orchestrated by former player personnel analyst Connor Stalions. Michigan was in the midst of its undefeated season when notified of the investigation. The Big Ten suspended then-head coach Jim Harbaugh three games at the end of the regular season for a violation of the Sportsmanship Policy because of information the NCAA gave the conference.​

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Michigan ultimately won the national championship in Harbaugh’s ninth season as head coach. Harbaugh then left to become the Los Angeles Chargers head coach.​

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In early June, Michigan went before the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions for two days in to present its defense. The program faced 11 allegations, six of them Level I, the NCAA’s most severe, including one involving current Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore. Sign stealing is not against NCAA rules, but The NCAA does have rules prohibiting in-person advanced scouting of opponents. Using electronic equipment to record another team’s signals is not permitted.​

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Moore, then the offensive coordinator/offensive line coach, deleted a string of 52 text messages with Stalions the day news of the investigation broke in October 2023. Moore turned over his phone to the NCAA and has publicly acknowledged deleting the texts saying last August he “looks forward” to the release of the texts. Moore already had faced NCAA punishment after he negotiated a one-game suspension in 2023 for his involvement in the 2021 NCAA investigation into Michigan’s illegal recruiting during the COVID-19 pandemic.​

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While six of the allegations were related to Stalions and the illegal scouting, the others involved recruiting. Yahoo obtained the Michigan response in late January, and reported the NCAA believes Michigan “failed to monitor” its football program considering the several years Stalions is alleged to have illegally scouted opponents. . . . STORY CONTINUES​

 

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Michigan is full of crooks

 

[Melensdad]

Michigan is full of crooks

There have been years worth of allegations of cheating in sports at U Michigan. It will be interesting to see if the NCAA really does throw the rule book at U-Mich and set an example of them.

Same university, but on the academic side of campus, is alleged to have ties with Chinese Communist research, to have hidden DEI programs, etc. So apparent rot in sports and rot in academic systems?

Seems like the university, which once was held in very high regard, may have a lot of very deep issues.

 

[Melensdad]

$30 MILLION FINE for U-Mich.

They plan to appeal.

Given they were not slapped with Post-Season bans I think they got lucky.

Maybe under appeal the 'bowl games' will be taken away from them too.

U-M gets major fine, add to Moore ban; will appeal

Michigan received a significant fine, including the loss of two years of postseason football revenue, but avoided punitive penalties such as a postseason ban from the NCAA Committee on Infractions.

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U-M gets major fine, add to Moore ban for sign stealing; will appeal​

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Michigan received a series of fines that could eclipse $30 million but avoided punitive penalties such as a postseason ban or the vacating of victories, including during the 2023 national championship season, as the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions ruled on the Wolverines' advance-scouting case Friday.​

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The NCAA also imposed an additional game suspension for coach Sherrone Moore, which will be served for the first game of the 2026 season. Moore is expected to serve a two-game suspension in the upcoming season, which ESPN reported in May that the university proposed to self-impose. He also received a two-year show-cause penalty.​

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The 2025 games he will miss will be the Wolverines' third and fourth of the season, a home contest against Central Michigan and a road matchup at Nebraska. The 2026 opener is expected to be against Western Michigan in Frankfurt, Germany.​

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The NCAA committee also levied an eight-year show-cause penalty for former Michigan staffer Connor Stalions and a 10-year show-cause for former coach Jim Harbaugh, who is now in the NFL with the Los Angeles Chargers. Those essentially act as barriers to schools hiring them in the future. Harbaugh's new show-cause penalty will not begin until after he serves a current four-year show-cause that runs through 2028 from a previous NCAA case. . . .​