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Newsstand: Former Michigan low-level staffer Connor Stalions attends NCAA hearing

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The Committee On Infractions hearing for Michigan’s alleged illegal scouting case started Friday and will continue into the weekend. Former low-level staffer Connor Stalions, the centerpiece of the investigation, made his appearance in Indianapolis, as captured on a phone camera by Sports Illustrated writer Pat Forde. The actual hearing is not open for the media or public.

In an article leading into the hearing, Forde discussed what exactly is at stake. Here’s an excerpt:

What follows will be up to two days of high-stakes, high-profile college sports jurisprudence, as the Michigan Wolverines and NCAA Enforcement staff meet for a hearing before the Division I Committee on Infractions at NCAA headquarters. This is the penultimate act in the Connor Stalions affair, a bizarre impermissible scouting scandal that broke new ground in the well-plowed landscape of college football cheating. The final act will be the ruling that comes out of this hearing, probably toward the end of the summer (although, this being the NCAA, delays are always possible).

And then we’ll see if this case is the NCAA’s last stand as the sovereign judge and jury of college sports misbehavior. This Michigan vs. NCAA hearing feels like one of the final compelling showdowns in the form we’ve come to know. Massive changes are coming in every facet of the industry, including the eternally controversial rules that govern fair play and who enforces them.

Former Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, not a centerpiece of the investigation, with their being no proof he had knowledge of any potential broken bylaws, did not attend. He’s currently the head coach for the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers, having led them to the playoffs last season.

Tickets are now on sale for Michigan’s Nov. 11 game against Wake Forest at Little Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit.

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