\n The wait is almost over. <\/p>\n
\n\tAccording to ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel and Dan Wetzel, the NCAA has informed parties involved in Michigan\u2019s infractions case that it will announce punishments for the Wolverines\u2019 sign-stealing scandal on Friday. The Detroit News\u2019 Angelique Chengelis<\/a> reports the punishments will be released by noon.\n<\/p>\n \n\t\tThe NCAA has formally notified parties tied to the Michigan NCAA infractions case that an announcement on the findings and punishments will be publicly released on Friday, sources tell me and @DanWetzel<\/a>.\n\t<\/p>\n \t\u2014 Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) August 14, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n\tThe NCAA has charged Michigan with 11 total violations, including six\u00a0Level I allegations, stemming from both Connor Stalions\u2019\u00a0sign-stealing scheme\u00a0and a separate recruiting investigation.\n<\/p>\n \n\tWhile exact details from the NCAA’s Notice of Allegations\u00a0and hearings remain unknown, Thamel and ESPN’s Dan Murphy<\/a> reported in August 2024\u00a0that Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore could face a show-cause penalty and suspension for deleting a thread of 52 text messages with Stalions in October 2023. Thamel and Wetzel reported in May\u00a0that Michigan has\u00a0proposed a two-game suspension<\/a>\u00a0for Moore.\n<\/p>\n \n\tThamel and Murphy also reported in August 2024 that former Michigan staff members Jim Harbaugh, Chris Partridge, Denard Robinson and Stalions were accused of committing Level I\u00a0violations. The same went for Michigan’s athletic department, which the NCAA stated had allowed\u00a0“a pattern of noncompliance with the football program” and attempted to hinder or thwart its investigation into the Wolverines.\n<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to a draft of the NCAA’s NOA obtained by Thamel and Murphy, Harbaugh did not cooperate with the NCAA’s investigation\u00a0because he denied the enforcement staff’s requests to view relevant messages and phone records from his cellphone. As a result, Harbaugh could face a show-cause restriction if he ever opts to return to college sports.\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe draft did\u00a0not provide evidence that Harbaugh was involved in Stalions’ operations or that he knew about the scheme. However, it stated\u00a0that Harbaugh failed to look for or evaluate “red flags” associated with Stalions, as the NCAA alleges\u00a0that multiple team interns and at least one full-time employee knew about the scheme and participated in it. Stalions led those interns and the employee to believe that what they were doing was not against NCAA rules, the enforcement staff\u00a0said.\n<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to the draft, Stalions\u00a0removed hard drives from Michigan’s football offices and also gave a football player a sheet containing play-call\u00a0signals of a future opponent. The draft added that\u00a0Stalions asked the player to bring the sheet to a team intern’s house until he could retrieve it later. Stalions later\u00a0refused\u00a0to cooperate with enforcement staff during the NCAA’s investigation and would not\u00a0let the school review his phone.\n<\/p>\n \n\tWhen the NCAA announces Michigan’s punishments on Friday, it will bring to a close an almost two-year saga for the Wolverines’ sign-stealing saga, with the earliest reports about Stalions’ advanced scouting scheme<\/a> coming to light in October 2023.\n<\/p>\n\n