People may be wondering what infamous former Michigan football staffer Connor Stalions is doing these days.
Well, he had been the defensive coordinator at Detroit Mumford High School, and now, due scary circumstances, he’s now the acting head coach.
Per Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports, the man at the forefront of Michigan’s sign-stealing scandal that dominated headlines for a portion of last year’s college football season is now Detroit Mumford’s acting head coach after regular boss William McMichael suffered what he told CBS was “a mild stroke.” McMichael told CBS he had entered the hospital Friday, Aug. 30, the day after the team’s season opener, and stayed for three days.
Connor Stalions is now the acting head coach at Detroit Mumford High School after its head coach suffered a mild stroke, reports @dennisdoddcbs https://t.co/BEbyOk5w3h
— Brandon Marcello (@bmarcello) September 6, 2024
“Connor is leading the team now,” McMichael texted CBS.
Stalions, an ex-captain in the marines, is the alleged ringleader of the Michigan sign-stealing scandal that’s still being investigated by the NCAA. News of the NCAA’s investigation broke Oct. 19, and Stalions was revealed as a person of interest.
He had been suspended with pay by Michigan for exactly two weeks before he resigned eight days prior to Michigan’s win at Penn State.
Among Stalions’s alleged offenseswas buying tickets for people to illegally film games from teams both in and outside the Big Ten. These include Penn State games. Sources told ESPN days after Penn State played at Ohio State Oct. 21 that Satlions bought tickets on both sides of Ohio Stadium. Later in the week, a source went on the record with ESPN and said that Stalions paid him to scout Penn State’s 63-0 win over UMass Oct. 14, and left at halftime due to the weather.
In total, Connor Stalions had been implicated in 30 tickets being purchased for games at 11 of the other 13 Big Ten schools.
Stalions has been a volunteer DC at Mumford since around Memorial Day, per CBS. He’s also the subject of a Netflix documentary called “Sign Stealer,” which premiered late last month.
