The Michigan signature scandal was from the NCAA's own school, not from Ohio State | report

Further details were created on Tuesday via the fiasco in Michigan, whereby the Wolverines wanted to fight the NCAA against the severity of the violations of the documents of Yahoo Sports.

However, earlier reports had swung that the state of Ohio might have played a role at the NCAA drinking point in the Wolverines-signal stick scandal. According to Michigan's letter to the NCAA, it was actually an unnamed source from the Wolverines's own campus, which typed the organization.

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Online rumors had previously pointed out that private investigators who were connected to the coach of the state of Ohio, Ryan Day, in Michigan. After the program of the program to the NCAA, these rumors proved to be a false narrative.

The NCAA has not yet disclosed the tipper's identity, but according to documents, the source “apparently has worked at school”. Michigan believes that the source has been used to create some of the violations of the Wolverines, according to the document, and even argues that the accusations are not implementable without the NCAA unveiling the identity of its source.

Per Yahoo Sport:

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“While the school respects confidential sources, the document states that the NCAA can only provide evidence and violations for information that can be based on people who are willing to be identified.”

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Michigan also hopes to hold a “curtain conference” with the NCAA in order to discuss the origin of the source in Michigan and its role in the charges against the university, according to the Yahoo report. The hearing will be expected in the coming weeks, with Yahoo Sports a potentially long struggle.

Michigan was originally examined for violating the NCAA rules for off-campus, illegal signal theft methods, which resigned towards the employees Connor Stalion, the center of the scandal, towards the end of the 2023 season. Over the years, Stalions bought tickets in his own name as Wolverine's assistant in more than 30 games in 11 different Big Ten programs.

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The former coach of Michigan, Jim Harbaugh, was not connected by the NCAA to the scandal, although he was still suspended because of Michigan's last three games of the 2023 season. Harbaugh left the following season to be head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers of the NFL.

This article originally appeared on the Columbus Dispatch: NCAA was by Ohio State | not to Michigan Sign theft report report