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The Valenti Show

Michigan Football accused of illegal sign stealing

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Is this a big deal to Michigan fans?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome in. We are off and running at 2 o'clock and apparently, you know, this is sometimes what happens. You go in the submarine, record the pod, and it all hell breaks loose. So I'm going to let David and Rico kind of take lead here because they're ahead of me on

0:18.0

what the hell is going on with Michigan football and this the reports are everywhere. I don't know I want to listen I want to get

0:25.6

edgumacated I want to gain a better understanding of what the hell we're dealing with

0:30.4

here but I'll just tell you walking out Doug and Scott looked like they saw a

0:35.0

ghost and away we go. So gentlemen to the main stage please. What the hell is

0:41.0

going on here? I confer with David and we're just going to hold off a little bit and let it all play out.

0:50.9

That's not how this job works.

0:53.0

Talk to me.

0:54.0

Literally, I think Evan sent me something in the middle of me doing my pod and I kind of glanced at the phone and was like whoa it's an article for

1:05.6

Yahoo sports came out Ross dellinger and Dan Wessel

1:09.4

NCA is investigating Michigan football for alleged rule violation related to stealing signals.

1:17.0

Long story short, it sounds as if Michigan were sending

1:21.2

either staffers or people close to the program to games of their

1:26.1

future opponents along with potential college football playoff opponents

1:31.0

to gather their signals to learn as much as they can about them which is

1:35.9

illegal to do according to the NCAA. If you get something off of game tape and

1:40.8

footage like that that's fine but you cannot send somebody to

1:44.0

the actual game to gather the information. Two of Michigan opponents this year

1:49.2

told Yahoo Sports they became aware that Michigan knew their play signs.

1:53.0

Sign stealing does not violate the rules unless the team uses the in-game

1:58.0

electronic equipment to relay the information to players on the field or amongst coaches.

2:02.0

So we're still figuring this out, but it sounds like Michigan went,

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