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How NCAA punished Michigan football for sign-stealing scheme
NCAA released punishment for Michigan football on Aug. 15, 2025, after its investigation into sign-stealing scandal orchestrated by Connor Stalions.
By the end of his nine-year run as Michigan’s football coach, Jim Harbaugh had transformed his alma mater into one of the top programs nationally, fulfilling the high expectations that greeted him when he was hired in December 2014.
In each of Harbaugh’s final three seasons, the Wolverines won the Big Ten and made the College Football Playoff. They ended an agonizingly long losing streak to rival Ohio State, beating the Buckeyes in each of Harbaugh’s final three years in Ann Arbor. In what would be his final act as Michigan’s coach, Harbaugh helped lead the Wolverines to the College Football Playoff national championship at the end of the 2023 season, giving Michigan its first national title since 1997.
At a certain point, though, Harbaugh’s Wolverines found themselves in the headlines just as much for their off-field transgressions as their on-field triumphs.
The final stretch of Harbaugh’s Michigan tenure was mired in controversy, with the football program he had built into a behemoth at the center of multiple NCAA scandals.
First, there was an NCAA investigation centered around impermissible contact Harbaugh had with recruits and players while access to them was limited during the COVID-19 pandemic. The NCAA found that Harbaugh “engaged in unethical conduct, failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance and violated head coach responsibility obligations” and it handed him a four-year show cause.
What followed was even more seismic. In October 2023, news first broke that the Wolverines were being investigated for…
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Publish date : 2025-08-15 21:48:00
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