ESPN.com · Aug 15, 2025
What we learned, and didn't learn, from the Michigan report
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Former Michigan staffer Connor Stalions referred to his advanced sign-stealing operation as both "counterintelligence" and "the KGB," called the video it elicited "dirty film" and ultimately threw his phone in a pond rather than turn it over to NCAA investigators.
The NCAA decision in the University of Michigan advanced scouting case divulges many details from Stalions' scheme, which captivated the country as it unspooled during Michigan's 2023 national championship run.
The punishments for that operation, nearly two years after it was revealed, arrived on Friday.
