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Michigan football's Sherrone Moore has no plans to watch Connor Stalions documentary

The Netflix documentary diving into former Michigan football recruiting staffer Connor Stalions, who for the first time is telling his side of the story to his alleged sign stealing operation, is now publicly available.

The 87-minute-long special dropped on the streaming platform on Tuesday morning, however when new U-M head coach and a handful of players spoke Monday afternoon, their first official "game week" press conference, none expressed that they had any intentions of watching it.

“I’ll be watching film," Moore joked. "I want to watch film first."

Michigan offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore arrives for the national championship game at NRG Stadium in Houston on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024.
Michigan offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore arrives for the national championship game at NRG Stadium in Houston on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024.

As a part of Netflix's 'Untold' series, Stalions is breaking his near year-long silence on the matter, just a few weeks after the news went public that he has joined the high school football staff at Detroit Mumford. According to the Netflix trailer, the entire scandal "turned him into a viral villain" as his plot took the college football world by storm.

It was last October, just days before U-M went to rival Michigan State in East Lansing, that the sport's governing body began its investigation of the Wolverines program and Stalions in-specific. According to the allegations, for a three-year period, Stalions would arrange to send accomplaces to games of future Michigan opponents and those in attendance would reportedly record the other team's signs.

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Scouting in-game and stealing signs is legal, however going to games of future opponents and scouting from the sidelines is strictly prohibited by NCAA bylaws since 1994. There were some players, like nickel Zeke Berry, who seemed almost entirely unaware that the documentary was due to come out.

“Netflix documentary?” Berry responded, when asked if he would be watching. “Oh, I haven’t heard much about it. I just heard that he was coming out with it.”

It's been a main story in and around Ann Arbor for 10 months now and just this past weekend, Michigan officially received a notice of allegations from the NCAA − its second in the past year, the program is already on probation for violations related to impermissible recruiting trips − after it had been given a draft a few weeks prior.

Per a draft of the investigation which leaked earlier in the month, U-M's head man is accused of deleting a threat of 52 text messages with Stalions shortly after he became the center of an NCAA investigation and Michigan was found to have a "culture of noncompliance". Earlier this offseason Moore said he looks forward to when those come out publicly − they were already recovered by the NCAA through device imaging before Moore as well gave them up himself − however the man facing another Level II violation could still be put in the "repeat violator" category.

Moore, who was also suspended one game as part of a negotiated resolution in the aforementioned investigation, said he's not focused on anything except football. His senior offensive lineman, Gio El-Hadi, echoed the sentiment.

“No, not really,” El-Hadi said if he's thinking about watching the documentary. “I’m just focused on the game. I don’t really care about anything else that’s going on.”

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Connor Stalions documentary: U-M's Sherrone Moore won't watch