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Brett McMurphy has just started his new job at On3 and felt like he had a bit of a juicy story, even if it’s one that’s already been told.
All the way back in October 2023, a TCU contingent told ESPN that the Horned Frogs were aware of Michigan football’s Connor Stalions and his sign-stealing ways, and that they had devised a clever plan which made the Wolverines’ machinations backfire on them. Now, years removed, TCU head coach Sonny Dykes is adding gasoline to the flames by telling McMurphy and On3 at Big 12 media days about the countermeasures that the Horned Frogs took against the Wolverines in that 2022 Fiesta Bowl.
“We had some intel that (the sign stealing) was going on,” Dykes told On3 from Big 12 media days. “Look everybody does it to an extent, but we had some intel that it was kind of next level there.”Dykes’ solution?
“We changed some signs, we left some the same,” Dykes said. “We found out early enough (before the game) where we could change a lot of our signals and then we had some dummy signals and some things where we checked a dummy signal to a signal that we knew they knew.
“We got some favorable matchups because of that and, yeah, there was some big plays in the game.
No one who was a part of that Michigan football team had been able to fight back on the allegations publicly. But now, as he waits for the NCAA to levy its punishment for the advanced scouting scandal, Stalions isn’t letting this one go by idly.
Stalions took to X (formerly Twitter) to rebut McMurphy’s story on Dykes, responding to the article post in great, great detail about why this account from the Horned Frogs coach is erroneous.
To be “tipped off” that your next opponent is good at stealing signals is like saying you were tipped off that you had an upcoming game.
To save everybody’s time so we can move on…
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Publish date : 2025-07-12 21:43:00
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