Michigan had their meeting with the NCAA today. What's your prediction on the outcome?

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Pat Forde

Here is yet another plot twist to the Michigan case: It appears Connor Stalions himself is in attendance this morning. (Sorry to all interested parties, including myself, but the hearing is closed to the public and the media.)

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What follows will be up to two days of high-stakes, high-profile college sports jurisprudence, as the Michigan Wolverines and NCAA Enforcement staff meet for a hearing before the Division I Committee on Infractions at NCAA headquarters. This is the penultimate act in the Connor Stalions affair, a bizarre impermissible scouting scandal that broke new ground in the well-plowed landscape of college football cheating. The final act will be the ruling that comes out of this hearing, probably toward the end of the summer (although, this being the NCAA, delays are always possible).

And then we’ll see if this case is the NCAA’s last stand as the sovereign judge and jury of college sports misbehavior. This Michigan vs. NCAA hearing feels like one of the final compelling showdowns in the form we’ve come to know. Massive changes are coming in every facet of the industry, including the eternally controversial rules that govern fair play and who enforces them.

“I’m not sure what will be left in the rules manual,” says Josephine Potuto, a Nebraska law professor emerita and former chair of the Committee on Infractions. “There will not be as many rules, including many that were often broken.”

To be clear, the rules broken by Michigan football staffer Stalions and his cohort of spies who recorded future opponents’ play signals will still be on the books, and still be subject to NCAA oversight going forward. But in a post-House v. NCAA settlement world—which may or may not come any day—a new investigative and adjudicative entity will handle NIL-related infractions for all conferences that opted into the settlement. That’s expected to be a large chunk of what the NCAA used to do.

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