{"id":147454,"date":"2025-08-15T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147454\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:30:10","slug":"pete-thamel-reveals-expected-punishments-for-michigan-sherrone-moore-in-sign-stealing-infractions-case-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147454\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Thamel reveals expected punishments for Michigan, Sherrone Moore in sign-stealing infractions case ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, the NCAA Infractions Committee<\/strong> is expected to publicly announce its findings, including any additional punishments, from its two-year investigation into Michigan<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s much-publicized 2023 sign-stealing scandal involving former staffer Connor Stalions<\/strong>. The Wolverines have already self-imposed a two-game suspension for second-year head coach Sherrone Moore<\/a><\/strong>, who was Michigan\u2019s offensive coordinator during its national championship-winning 2023 campaign.<\/p>\n

During a Thursday appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, ESPN insider Pete Thamel<\/strong> shed some insight into what the Wolverines could expect when the NCAA drops the proverbial hammer, and even hinted that any additional discipline would hit more like a feather. Back in May, Michigan announced it was suspending Moore for the third and fourth games of the 2025 season against Central Michigan<\/a><\/strong> and at Nebraska<\/a><\/strong> as part of self-imposed penalties for his involvement in the scandal. Moore allegedly deleted more than 50 text messages from Stalions the same day the sign-stealing scandal broke in October 2023, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will likely be, but not certainly, the final chapter of the litigation of this case through the NCAA process. We\u2019re going to find out tomorrow any potential punishment for Michigan, \u2026 which is likely to be a hefty fine,\u201d Thamel said Thursday afternoon. \u201cAnd there\u2019s not an expectation there\u2019s going to be any postseason ban, and there\u2019s not an expectation that any of their accomplishments are going to be taken away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe real news that\u2019s going to come out of tomorrow is going to be regarding the suspension of Sherrone Moore. Michigan, back in May, I believe, self-imposed two games for Sherrone \u2013 Game 3 and Game 4 of this season. And what we\u2019re going to find out from the NCAA tomorrow is that accepted or if they\u2019re going to add any additional suspensions. Remember, he obviously deleted a thread of 52 text messages (from Stalions) in this.\u201d<\/p>\n

NCAA to release ruling on Michigan infractions case on Friday<\/p>\n

Based on previous NCAA rulings that also involve self-imposed penalties, Thamel suggested the NCAA might add a game or two to Moore\u2019s team-imposed suspension, but any additional punishments aren\u2019t expected to go overboard. And given all the speculation Michigan has endured over the past few years with the Stalions sign-stealing scandal hanging over its head, another game or two might just be considered a win in Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n

\u201cTypically, as these things go, when you self-impose, it\u2019s like buying a used car; you don\u2019t go above the bluebook value when you make your first offer, you go below the bluebook value. So, there\u2019s an expectation that there could be a slight addition to it potentially,\u201d Thamel continued. \u201cJust if you look at the history of these cases, when people do self-impose, sometimes it\u2019s accepted, sometimes there\u2019s an added (suspension), but it won\u2019t be radically different than the two (games) that are there.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow there\u2019s potential for appeals, too, so I\u2019m not going to say this is over forever. But this is certainly a large piece of this weird, wild scandal that is coming to a conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then-Michigan head coach\u00a0Jim Harbaugh<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0already served a three-game suspension at the end of the 2023 regular season. He remains on the hook for an NCAA-levied one-year suspension and a four-year show-cause order stemming from a prior case involving impermissible recruiting during the COVID-19 dead period in 2021.<\/p>\n

Back in June, the NCAA Committee of Infractions had a hearing regarding the case. The focus of that was in-person advanced scouting of opponents, which violates NCAA rules. Now, it appears as if they\u2019re nearing an announcement on that investigation.<\/p>\n

For his part in the sign-stealing saga, Stalions<\/strong> \u2014 who was accused of orchestrating friends and colleagues to attend opponents\u2019 games, scout them in-person, and potentially even try and steal signs \u2014 was forced to resign from Michigan and is now in the high school coaching ranks. Former Wolverines assistant coach\u00a0Chris Partridge<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was later fired as well.<\/p>\n

It was in August of 2024 when Michigan received its\u00a0initial Notice of Allegations<\/a>\u00a0regarding the scandal. In the initial reports about the NOA, the NCAA was accusing Michigan and Stalions of impermissibly scouting at least 13 future opponents on at least 58 occasions between 2021 and 2023.<\/p>\n

\u2014 On3\u2019s Dan Morrison contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the NCAA Infractions Committee is expected to publicly announce its findings, including any additional punishments, from…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8807,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-147454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sherrone-moore","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115032085249234315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}