Michigan suspended the employee on suspicion of being a sign-stealer who was not on the pass list.
Mount Pleasant: Coach Jim McElwain of Central Michigan University’s football team said that, during a September season opener, sideline access to watch Michigan State was not on his team’s pass list for Connor Stalions, the now-suspended Michigan football staffer.
There are pictures going around the internet that appear to show Stalions was at the Chippewas’ sidelines on September 1. Last month, Michigan State was defeated 49-0 by the Wolverines.
According to McElwain’s statement on Tuesday, Central Michigan is aware of the picture involving “the sign-stealer guy” and is looking into it.
“I certainly don’t condone it in any way, shape or form,” said McElwain, a former Florida coach who was on Jim Harbaugh’s staff at Michigan in 2018. “I do know that his name was on none of the passes that were let out. We keep tracing it back to try to figure it out. It’s in good hands with our people.
“There’s no place in football for that.”
Stalions was suspended on Oct. 20 by Michigan after an investigation reportedly turned up videos of and documented plans and budgets for the scouting of the Wolverines’ opponents.
