Michigan football NCAA sign-stealing findings and penalties to be announced Friday
According to a report from Pete Thamel and Dan Wetzel of ESPN, the findings and any potential penalties (hint: there will be something) will be announced Friday. Further on that, The Detroit News' Angelique Chengelis reports the punishments will be released by noon, while NBC's Nicole Auerbach, reports that Michigan will receive the notice of penalties before the public earlier that morning.
It's hard to fathom that something won't come from this. The NCAA has charged the Michigan program with 11 NCAA violations, six of those being the most severe Level 1 infractions. That is in combination with recruiting violations and prior suspensions for former head coach Jim Harbaugh, so repeat offender and failure to monitor would figure to be a part of whatever penalties are handed down.
What is indeed a part of the penalty remains to be seen. The language used by the NCAA has at least been very severe, and some of the reporting of the initial draft of the Notice of Allegations has also pointed toward the NCAA looking to impose some pretty significant things. Michigan took things all the way to a hearing in front of the Committee on Infractions, so all of that points to something somewhat significant being talked about. But where things landed after the hearing remain to be seen.
What could be in play is at least a suspension and perhaps a show-cause penalty for Sherrone Moore because of his role on staff and the deletion of 52 text messages between he and Stalions when news of the alleged improprieties broke. Michigan has tried to get out in front of that by self-imposing a two-game suspension for Moore this upcoming season, but it is unclear what that will do to soften the blow from the NCAA.
You can likely also expect further show-cause penalties for former head coach Jim Harbaugh, who is already in the midst of a four-year one for the earlier findings of impermissible contact with recruits.
You can bet that the news cycle will be hot and heavy tomorrow morning and early afternoon, and we'll also be here to react to it.
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