Connor Stallions aspired to become the head coach at the University of Michigan. He came so close to potentially taking down the program’s head coach, unintentionally.
of wall street journal look carefully He blamed the former Wolverines staffer who worked for Jim Harbaugh and resigned last week as part of the ongoing sign-stealing investigation. According to multiple reports, he is believed to be the mastermind behind a scheme aimed at understanding opponent hand signals by attending games and recording sideline signals in violation of NCAA rules. ing.
According to the article, Stallions considered two paths to becoming a college football coach. (1) Play college football and become a graduate assistant. (2) Join the military. Lacking the skills to play, he quit his high school team during his third year and began coaching a middle school team with his father.
The Stallions landed at the Naval Academy, where they worked on the football program. He reportedly began cracking the code for play signals while in Annapolis.
He will be officially hired in May 2022, according to Michigan State. The school claims that everything he did before 2022 was done on a volunteer basis.
According to the article, Stallions purchased a home near campus in March 2022 for $485,000. He was sued by a homeowners association for leaving “dozens of old vacuum cleaners” on his front porch. The association alleged that he was running a home appliance repair business out of his home in violation of its bylaws.
Stallion was representing himself. In response to the formal summons, he claimed: Or he’s 2. a Michigan State fan and knows I’m the Michigan football coach and wants to distract me. (He specifically mentioned “a guy named Jeff” who lives down the street and has a son at Michigan State University.)
Mr. Stallions admitted that he sold the refurbished products on Amazon. He claimed to have stored the inventory in a warehouse. The judge ordered him to cease any business ventures out of his home.
Now that he’s out of a job doing whatever he was doing to give Michigan an edge, the Stallions may have to get out of the Dustbuster repair business.