By Dan Zealley
A full season has come and gone since the Michigan Wolverines won the national championship amid
suspensions and turmoil surrounding the sign-stealing scandal that included Sherrone Moore deleting
texts from Connor Stalions. Ross Dellinger posts that Yahoo Sports has obtained the 137-page response from
Michigan to the NCAA.
In a 137-page response to the NCAA obtained by @YahooSports, Michigan intends to fight allegations of the Stalions scheme, accuses NCAA of overreaching, defends Sherrone Moore’s deleted texts & reveals that the original NCAA tip came from its own campushttps://t.co/RsDlAnBdKz
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) January 28, 2025
Michigan is facing 11 allegations, with six of them being Level 1. The NCAA is likely in for a long fight in
this case. Yahoo Sports states “…the university refutes many of the alleged rules violations and accuses
the NCAA of “grossly overreaching” and “wildly overcharging” the program without credible evidence
that other staff members knew of Stalions’ illegal in-person scouting system.”
Many talking heads in the media had suggested that the tipster in this case was someone from Ohio
State, which turns out to be not true. “According to the document, the tipster derived from Michigan’s
own campus. The unnamed source, which the NCAA has not disclosed, appears to have worked at the
school, at least at one point. Michigan believes the confidential leaker was used by the NCAA to produce
at least some of the charges in the notice of allegations, something in which it expresses “concern.”
It is no surprise that Michigan is fighting these allegations. The recent history of the NCAA in
courtrooms bodes well for the Wolverines to receive nothing more than a slap on the wrist. It is a little
surprising that the “rat” came from within.
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