New details emerge in Michigan football sign stealing scandal

This evening, while I and other media members were at Schembechler Hall talking to a few of the Wolverines’ top stars, a new detail emerged in the Michigan football sign-stealing scandal. According to reports from Tigers Illistraded — which covers Clemson Athletics — Connor Stalions reportedly bought a ticket to a 2022 Clemson home game. The ticket was for a late-October game against Syracuse, right around the time that the Tigers were near Michigan in the rankings with an 8-0 overall record.

New details emerge in Michigan football sign-stealing scandal

New reports just surfaced, which state that suspended Michigan football staffer Connor Stalions bought tickets at a number of non-Big Ten games – all of which were teams that were in CFP contention alongside the Wolverines. On top of a Clemson ticket in 2022, it is also believed that Stalions bought tickets to games at other non-Big Ten schools, such as SEC title games and potentially more.

Michigan football assistant Connor Stalions is currently suspended, and right now, it appears that he was a rogue actor in the Wolverines’ infamous sign-stealing scandal, which has headlined the college football news cycle for about a week now.

This evening, it was reported that the Michigan football assistant, who is at the center of this investigation, also bought non-Big Ten tickets — the insinuation is that they were also to be used in his alleged spying scheme, though there is no proof of this. In fact, for the time being, these are just allegations and reports with no teeth just yet. Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, and 12 of 14 current Big Ten schools are all believed to have sold Stalions tickets at some point over the past few years, per these new reports.

What does this change for Michigan football? Well, nothing yet — it just shows that Stalions’ alleged rule-bending goes beyond Big Ten play, though again, the NCAA investigation is still yet to gain any real momentum outside of media backlash.

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