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Coming off a bye week — and still nursing the wounds of a 27-17 loss at Washington on Oct. 5 — Michigan football will aim to get its 2024 season back on track Saturday with a game at No. 21 Illinois.
Even as an NCAA investigation into it remains open, the sign-stealing scandal that followed the Wolverines throughout their run to a national championship last season is largely behind the program. The persistent, week-after-week questions about it have largely disappeared. Connor Stalions, the staffer at the center of it, resigned from his role as an analyst with Michigan and is now a volunteer coach at Mumford High School in Detroit.
When the Wolverines line up against the Fighting Illini on Saturday, though, there will be at least one reminder of the scandal standing on the opposing sideline of Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois.
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Among the sea of voices that sounded off against Michigan last season, few were quite as pointed as Illinois coach Bret Bielema, who slammed the Wolverines’ alleged misdeeds in the kind of plain, biting language that few other active coaches did.
In the first game between the programs since Bielema’s comments, here’s a look back at what the Illini coach said:
What did Bret Bielema say about Michigan sign-stealing?
In the weeks that followed the revelation last October that the NCAA was investigating Michigan for alleged in-person scouting and sign-stealing, figures from across the college football world dished out their opinions on the brewing scandal and what it meant for the sport.
Big Ten football coaches were among those offering their input. Purdue coach Ryan Walters, for example, said the claims against Michigan weren’t allegations, but that “it happened,” citing video…
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Author : Detroit Free Press
Publish date : 2024-10-19 01:05:48
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