Connor Stalions still hopes to be Michigan head coach one day: ‘I’ll outwait anyone’

The famed Connor Stalions joined On3’s J.D. PicKell to discuss the future of Michigan, his relationship with star recruit quarterback Bryce Underwood and everything in between. It’s evident the former Wolverines assistant turned Netflix star still has big dreams involving his favorite team.

Since his involvement in the Michigan sign-stealing scandal and subsequent time coaching high school football, Stalions has become a person of interest in Ann Arbor and throughout the college football world as a whole. What does he yearn for though? Being the head coach of the Wolverines one day, of course.

“Of course,” Stalions told PicKell, responding to whether the Michigan job is the North Star for him in his coaching career. “I’ll out-wait anyone. Whenever it’s time.”

Now that would be a wild turn of events that even Netflix couldn’t script. Stalions would do just about anything to become the head coach of the Wolverines in the future — except one key thing. PicKell asked Stalions whether he would take a job as an assistant at another Big Ten school for a bit, if it meant the path led back to Michigan.

“If it’s not Ohio State [or] Michigan State,” Stalions clarified. Even if it meant achieving his No. 1 goal, Stalions would refuse to join the Buckeyes. “They’d be crazy to do that. I think they’d know that if I were actually at Ohio State, we would, you know, I don’t know — go 11-0, and then, you know, take a knee when we’re down or something late in the game.”

True hatred runs deep. That’s the case for Stalions when it comes to Ohio State, and especially Ryan Day. That checks out though. He did call Day his No. 1 enemy during an appearance on Bussin’ With the Boys during last year’s football season. That made for a tough College Football Playoff though.

All told, Stalions vitriol isn’t limited to the Buckeyes though. Outside of anybody associated with Ohio State, Stalions named the in-state rival Michigan State Spartans as his next biggest enemy. Not anything to do with their head coach, but just the program in general.

“I’m not a fan of Michigan State,” Stalions stated. “I got nothing against Jonathan Smith. He’s their new head coach. I mean, it was Mel Tucker, before that Mark Dantonio… I respect him (Dantonio), not a fan.”

Alas, time will tell if Connor Stalions is the leader of Michigan one day. Stranger things have certainly happened in college football, and who knows where the sport will be in the future. Don’t count him out. You can check out his full interview with On3’s J.D. PicKell HERE, as the duo touched on a myriad of Michigan and college football related topics.