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Michigan is fighting against some of the allegations levied against it in the NCAA’s investigation into the Wolverines’ sign-stealing scandal.
The university has accused the NCAA of “grossly overreaching” and “wildly overcharging” the Michigan football program, which was hit with 11 violations in a notice of allegations, many of which stemmed from the NCAA’s probe into an alleged sign-stealing operation led by former Wolverines staffer Connor Stalions.
Michigan’s response came in a 137-page document, a portion of which Yahoo Sports obtained and reported the details of on Tuesday.
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Included in Michigan’s response are defenses of former coach Jim Harbaugh, current Wolverines coach Sherrone Moore and, interestingly, Stalions, the former recruiting assistant who resigned in 2023.
Michigan believes the NCAA’s notice of allegations, which it received last August, has “numerous factually unsupported infractions, exaggerates aggravating factors and ignores mitigating facts” and that the alleged sign-stealing operation offered the program “minimal relevance to competition.”
The university later requested that the NCAA apply “common sense and commitment to fairness” to the case, an approach that would require college sports’ governing body to treat it as a “Level II standard case.” Of the 11 alleged violations by the Wolverines, six are Level I infractions, the most serious charge the NCAA can assess to a member institution.
Michigan asserts that NCAA investigators have not proven “any coaches were aware of, much less participated in” Stallions’ sign-stealing scheme.
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Author : USA TODAY Sports
Publish date : 2025-01-29 01:15:00
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