Disgraced former Michigan football staffer Connor Stalions says he had Ohio State’s signals, Ohio State had Michigan State’s signals

Connor Stalions can’t work in college football these days and is failing miserably trying to coach at the high school level for a Detroit-area program.

Alas, the disgraced former University of Michigan full-time football staffer – signed off by Jim Harbaugh, no less – now is spilling the tea.

The Wolverines have their national title. Harbaugh has his NCAA penalties and a nobody’s-got-it-better-than-me attitude coaching the NFL’s Chargers.

Loose lips, apparently, can’t sink ships the NCAA couldn’t keep in the dock. Icebergs be damned.

So now Stalions is selectively granting some interviews, and his latest is with former Michigan All-America offensive tackle Taylor Lewan.

On the latest Bussin’ With The Boys podcast, Stalions implied that Ohio State had Michigan State’s signals during the two Big Ten rivals’ 2021 meeting, and he also pompously revealed how he had Ohio State’s offensive signals in a Michigan-Ohio State clash.

“2021, we lose to Michigan State,” Stalions told hosts Lewan and Will Compton, a former Nebraska linebacker and Tennessee Titans teammate with Lewan. “Kenneth Walker (Michigan State running back who transferred from Wake Forest) had a great game; he was fantastic.

“And we needed some help. They had to lose twice, and we had to win out. Michigan State had to lose twice and then that would have resulted in having a three-way tie, no we would have beaten Ohio State and it would have just been us and Ohio State because Michigan State would not have been in that three-way tie.”

Stalions then chronicled the chain of events he said led to the Buckeyes having Michigan State’s signals for a contest that a clearly superior Ohio State squad won, 56-7.

“They lost to Purdue, and I think the next week they played Ohio State,” said Stalions, who’s been coaching at Detroit’s Mumford High School. “The week before we played Ohio State, so we needed Ohio State to win. So, I gave Michigan State’s signals to a buddy of mine, and I said, ‘Hey, I changed all the logos to make it look like it came from a different school, I don’t want to give Ohio State something from Michigan, right? They might not use it, who knows? We need Ohio State to win.

“And I know they (the Buckeyes) steal the crap out of defensive signals, so here we go. I gave it to a buddy, who may have given it to a buddy who then gave it to Ohio State. Who said, ‘Hey, I got this from so-and-so at Name-Your-School University.’ I’m sure they probably already had them, but it just confirmed everything. And then they won like 60-0.”

In a telling moment of hubris, Stalions then – to the amusement of his hosts – brazenly crowed about his ability to be superior in stealing signs compared to whomever he alleged Ohio State might have been using.

The Wolverines won the final three games in the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry, starting with that 42-27 win in 2021 that sent Michigan to the Big Ten Championship.

“You know, here’s the thing: Ohio State had like eight signalers all year, and everyone signals the formation. Mistake No. 1. Like, I don’t need to know who’s live to see what the formation is,” Stalions said. “Anyone can see that. Mistake No. 2, they never changed who their live signaler was the entire season.”

Lewan interjected with a question.

“So, I guess their Connor Stalions isn’t that good, then?”

Said Stalions, “Apparently not as good.”

Then he outlined how he relayed Ohio State’s offensive signals – specifically a tight end screen for former Buckeyes tight end Cade Stover – in that contest.

“Here’s the bottom line: How can you be so good in-game?,” Stalions asked. “I just realized that they signaled their signal for the ‘Slot Y Y’ formation and then the guy who was live the entire season signaled ‘Y, delay.’ Am I supposed to see that and be like, ‘Oh, I don’t know what this is?’ I said, ‘I think this has got to be a Y delay screen.’”

Stalions then also leveled his own alleged first-person account of knowing that Ohio State had stolen its opponents’ signals.

“All I’ll say is I have seen other Big Ten schools’ signals, I’m talking the original signal-film, like a G.A. doing the signals in the quarterback room,” Stalions said. “Like the players would have on Catapult to study. I’ve seen other teams’ signals of that, that the people who showed me that claimed they got it from Ohio State. I’ve seen that with my own eyes.

“Like Ohio State, for example, may have traded that to someone for a different team’s signals, or what not. May have. And that someone may have told me, ‘Dude, you better be careful. Look what they got.’”