Ohio State fans have been highly anticipating the NCAA’s ruling on the Michigan sign-stealing scandal. Perhaps it’s coming within a few months.
Per 247Sports, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel hopes to have a resolution by “the end of the summer” and maintains the school’s process with the NCAA is “ongoing.”
Manuel told 247Sports that he hasn’t had any conversations with NCAA officials about any potential punishments for the Wolverines, but he maintains that his school won the 2023 national title “fair and square.”
“I have not had any conversation about postseason bans or penalties that are coming,” Manuel told 247Sports. “What I can point to is that (NCAA president) Charlie Baker, when we won the championship, said they won it fair and square. That’s something I can say that gives me some sense that they understand that this was a team who won that championship fair and square. I look at that, and as we move forward, we’ll see how it goes.”
The NCAA has delivered the official Notice of Allegations to Michigan and the university has since responded. The next step in the process is a panel review with the Committee of Infractions.
In late January, Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger obtained a portion of Michigan’s 137-page response to the Notice of Allegations, which implored the NCAA to treat the case as a “Level II standard case.” Currently, the document charges the Wolverines with 11 allegations, six of them Level I, and considers Michigan “repeat offenders.”
Manuel declined to go into many specifics on the case because of its ongoing nature.
“As I’ve done before, because of where we are with the case, I can’t talk about the case itself,” Manuel said. “I just wanna make sure people understand, it’s not because I think something bad is gonna happen, or it’s really bad, or it’s really good. I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I don’t know the decision that’s going to be made.
“We’re going to make the best argument that we have with the facts that we know that are laid out to us. And we put that argument in the response, and then we’ll go through the process, and then we’ll see where it goes from there. And then once the process is finalized, then I can talk about it. But right now, to give the investigation and the process the due respect, I don’t need to comment about it at all.”
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