Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

Why don't we start today with an update on that supposed non-story.

For a supposed non-story, there sure is a hell of a lot of story to this alleged Michigan

signal stealing scandal.

For a supposed non-fire, there sure is a hell of a giant plume

of smoke emanating from Ann Arbor right now.

And for a supposedly buttoned up purity program,

there is a lot of messy, sloppy, ugly drama with the Michigan Wolverines right now. And you know what? It's

getting messier and more dramatic by the hour. A bombshell Washington Post report dropped after I got off the air yesterday.

It continued to flush out the alleged scheme, allegedly spearheaded by some dude allegedly named Connor Stallions.

So among other things, here are the allegations.

Example, Michigan had their in-person scouting assignments for the season all scheduled and budgeted

out and their total spend on that operation was more than 15 grand and the money trail is

Definitely interesting, but it's not really the big bombshell from that Washington post report

The bombshell was the big review from that

quote, quote, the sign stealing investigation

threatening to disrupt Michigan's football season began after an outside

investigative firm approached the NCAA with documents and videos

that the firm said it had obtained from computer drives, maintained

and accessed by multiple Michigan coaches." End of quote. Can we get a, oh, oh, so the NCAA was actually tipped off by an outside

investigator firm for this.

And somehow that outside investigator firm

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