ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A new era for Michigan Football under head coach Sherrone Moore will be stained even before the 2024 season starts. In a leaked document to ESPN, Pete Thamel reported that Moore is one of the seven members who violated NCAA rules. This will be his second offense within a year and could lead to a show-cause penalty.

The leak is an NOA draft and not official, but it mentions Moore working with Conner Stalions. If the draft is true, Moore would be hit with a level-2 violation, which is just below the level-1 violations that former head coach Jim Harbaugh was supposedly going to get. The day that Stalions was accused of the sign-stealing scandal, Moore deleted 52 text messages off of his phone that were later recovered through “device imaging.”

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Moore would be considered a repeat violator after negotiating a resolution to claims that he contacted recruits during a COVID-19 recruiting dead period. In addition, Michigan faces level 1 violation charges due to the “pattern of noncompliance within the football program” and the program’s efforts to hinder or thwart the NCAA’s investigation.

If Moore is handed a show-clause situation for his violations, Michigan will have to either defend him, suspend him, or, in the worst scenario, terminate him. A show-clause penalty can be described as rendering a coach unemployable at NCAA member schools. The coach’s employing school would have to convince the NCAA it has sufficiently punished the coach, i.e., suspension or termination.

Michigan may find out this week their fate from the NCAA.