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Podcast: Michigan fighting NCAA over Connor Stalions case, transfer portal update, previewing basketball vs. Rutgers

clayton-sayfieby:Clayton Sayfie•01/30/25•

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Michigan Wolverines football head coaches Jim Harbaugh and Sherrone Moore (Photos by USA TODAY Sports Images)

On this episode of The Wolverine Podcast, Clayton Sayfie and Anthony Broome discuss the U-M response to the NCAA’s Notice of Allegations levied against the Michigan Wolverines football program, head coach Sherrone Moore’s involvement and potential punishments. They continue by discussing offensive lineman transfer portal targets Pat Coogan (who will visit this weekend) and Rocco Spindler (who may visit this weekend and is set to make a final decision by Sunday at the latest) and then previewing Michigan basketball vs. Rutgers.

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Michigan and the NCAA appear bound for a Committee On Infractions hearing to determine the fate of the investigation into the program for alleged off-campus, in-person scouting. Sayfie and Broome weighed in.

“That seems to be where this is trending: University of Michigan taking an aggressive approach here,” Sayfie said.

“Time will tell if it’s the right approach,” Broome noted. “I don’t know … I mean, it’s impossible to know what a negotiated settlement would look like. I’ve speculated in the past, and again, it’s just my opinion that ultimately this probably ended with a negotiated resolution where you pay a giant fine and you’re on probation, maybe you lose some scholarships. I don’t know so much about that anymore.

“And that’s not to say my confidence or — I don’t know if ‘confidence’ is the word — if I’m as sure as I was before about what the outcome might be. It’s probably shaken a little bit.

“But I have no issues with the way that they’re approaching it. I’ve said from the start: It’s clear that you’re not in a case like this if there’s straight up no wrongdoing at all. To a certain extent, you got your hand caught in the cookie jar, and there’s a price to pay for that. What that price winds up being, whatever the investigation shows, whatever you choose to fight, whatever you don’t choose to fight … to me, I think they’re taking probably the type of legal approach that they probably should’ve taken from the start with it.”

Watch or listen for the full episode, with plenty of Michigan / NCAA talk and much more.

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