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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.
Jim Harbaugh has responded to the NCAA punishment of Michigan football, which includes fines that could reach $30 million, but no postseason ban.
With no response.
“Like I said to you last year, not engaging, ” Harbaugh told reporters Saturday, Aug. 16, about the 74-page ruling made public Friday, Aug. 15. “I’m done engaging.”Harbaugh, the second-year coach of the Los Angeles Chargers, spoke in a postgame news conference after a last-minute preseason loss to the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
Michigan announced Friday it will appeal the NCAA ruling. Penalties levied include a 10-year show-cause order for Harbaugh, restricting him from all athletically related activities in college during the show-cause period, which will begin Aug. 7, 2028, at the conclusion of his four-year show-cause order from a previous case on recruiting violations. It will run through Aug. 6, 2038, when Harbaugh would be 74 years old.
Harbaugh, 61, was coach at his alma mater Michigan from 2015-23, and in 2022 officially hired Connor Stalions, ringleader of the illegal sign-stealing scheme from 2021-23, as a recruiting analyst, after Stalions began as a volunteer assistant for the program starting in 2017, according to the NCAA investigation.
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Publish date : 2025-08-17 02:52:00
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