Former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer calls for severe punishment for Michigan amid scouting scandal fallout

Michigan shot manager Sherrone Moore is expected to service a two-game suspension during the 2025 play arsenic portion of the school's self-imposed sanctions from the 2023 Connor Stalions scouting scandal, aggregate outlets reported Monday.

Moore, named the full-time Wolverines caput manager aft Jim Harbaugh's departure, was implicated successful an alleged bid of deleted substance messages betwixt him and Stalions. 

The messages were believed to person been exchanged the aforesaid time quality of the alleged sign-stealing strategy became public.

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Former Ohio State Buckeyes caput manager Urban Meyer astatine the CFP nationalist title crippled astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta Jan. 20, 2025. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

The messages were yet recovered via "device imaging," according to a draught of the NCAA's announcement of allegations obtained successful 2024. While Michigan could look aboriginal sanctions from the NCAA, erstwhile Ohio State manager Urban Meyer lobbied for immoderate harsh punishment — particularly for Moore.

"If you prevarication arsenic a assemblage shot manager to the NCAA, successful my idiosyncratic opinion, you’re finished, you’re done," Meyer said connected a caller variation of the "Triple Option Show."

"That’s not making a substance message. That’s not going to luncheon with idiosyncratic you're not expected to spell to luncheon with. That's not sending a missive erstwhile you're not expected to," Meyer said. "All of the frivolous level threes and each that nonsense."

Michigan caput manager Sherrone Moore watches against Texas successful the 2nd fractional of a crippled successful Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 7, 2024.  (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Meyer acknowledged his sentiment was harsh, but helium said the alleged acts were unacceptable.

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"When they got you, and they say, 'Did you bash this?' and they refused to cooperate, oregon they refused, oregon they lied, successful my precise beardown opinion, you’re finished coaching successful Division I assemblage shot oregon basketball. Guess what happens? The hazard present is excessively high, and I don’t deliberation you’d ever spot this benignant of worldly again."

Urban Meyer during the 2nd fractional of the CFP nationalist title astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

Stalions was suspended by Michigan successful October 2023 and resigned from his presumption with the shot programme the pursuing month. He was named antiaircraft coordinator astatine Detroit Mumford High School successful August 2024.

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Meyer coached the Buckeyes to the nationalist rubric aft the 2014 regular season, making Ohio State the winners of the inaugural College Football Playoff. Ohio State defeated Notre Dame successful January to assertion its latest nationalist championship.

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