An individual, anyone, does not just appear on a college football sideline.
Not in general, and certainly not within the specific framework of the team box area on a sideline -- which spans approximately between the 20-yard lines.
Now, FootballScoop has the document required and utilized by the Big Ten for all 25 individuals who may wear a headset on gamedays and for the 50 non-players who can be granted a sideline-area field pass.
In this latest FootballScoop podcast, Scott Roussel and John Brice examine the two most recent developments: Video and still images that appear to show Stalions on the Central Michigan sideline to open this college football season, when CMU played at Big Ten program Michigan State Sept. 1 -- the Friday night before the Wolverines opened their season.
CMU head coach Jim McElwain after his team's midweek game did not deny that Stalions might have been on the Chippewas sideline; instead, McElwain said that CMU officials had begun to investigate the situation.
Michigan, remember, did not have head coach Jim Harbaugh for its first three games this season as Harbaugh and Michigan had the coach serve a self-imposed three-game ban as it pertained to the NCAA's ongoing probe into alleged recruiting violations by Harbaugh during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, FootballScoop has obtained the standard documents utilized by the Big Ten -- and essentially boilerplate for all conferences and teams -- of which 25 individuals can wear the official team-issued headsets on gamedays and the 50 individuals who can receive a pass to move freely within the team box area on the sideline.
Of note: the forms require authorized signatures from a program's head coach and either an athletics director or the athletics director's designee.
Also, sources have told FootballScoop that investigators have been present this week on the Michigan campus as the process moves forward, with efforts per sources centered on seeking to find any potential financial records.
Stalions not only had scouted at least a dozen other Big Ten programs, per myriad reports, but also had worked to scout both two-time defending champion Georgia and Tennessee, multiple sources confirmed to FootballScoop.
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