Like a lot of teams, Michigan has benefited from stolen signs, but will the NCAA find the program went beyond the accepted methods of decoding signs?Īs a proud Michigan alum, I have a lot of feelings about all of this. Sports Commentary: In Michigan sign-stealing saga, NCAA calling a play USC should recognize
He may be reinstated in time for the next two games at Maryland and against Ohio State. Michigan filed a request for injunctive relief, but its hearing was scheduled for this upcoming Friday, forcing Harbaugh to miss Saturday’s game against the Nittany Lions.
The Michigan Wolverines were thousands of feet in the air Friday afternoon on their way to play the biggest game of their season when the Big Ten announced a three-game suspension of coach Jim Harbaugh.īig Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, a Harvard-educated attorney with a TV background, received Michigan’s 10-page response to the conference’s evidence relating to now-former staffer Connor Stalions’ sign-stealing operation on Wednesday.īut Petitti waited until less than 24 hours before the third-ranked Wolverines - the best collection of Michigan football players since the 1997 national championship team and possibly ever - play a defining road game against 10th-ranked Penn State to levy a suspension he clearly has been mulling for weeks.