Urban Meyer had been hesitant to share his views on Michigan’s alleged sign-stealing scandal because of the NCAA’s ongoing investigation into the situation.
However, the former college football coach broke his silence during a recent episode of his Urban’s Take With Tim May podcast, saying that he is "skeptical" of current reporting on the matter.
“This is really the first time, because it’s you and a guy I respect—so I’m very cautious,” Meyer said on the show, per On3 Sports. “I’ve been asked over 100 times to comment on it and I just won’t. But I am going to, I’ll tell you my thoughts: First of all I’m very skeptical of reporters reporting. My experience is they’re wrong most of the time. And that’s not a shot at the media, that’s reality. People say things that they’re reporting that’s just not true. So I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt saying, first of all it’s hard for me to believe that is true.”
The accusations of the investigation center around Michigan staffer Connor Stalions, who allegedly scouted the program’s future opponents in person to discover the signals used by those coaches. Although the former Buckeyes coach was not seeking to criticize the program’s Big Ten rival nor head coach Jim Harbaugh, Meyer declared that some of the allegations involving Stalions are “egregious.”
“I also heard people say that ‘Well, everyone does that.’ And Tim, no one does that,” Meyer said. “I’ve never heard of that in 40 years of being around the game. …Everybody is entitled to their opinion. If they [coaches] know your signals, it is that important. You’re changing the game. That’s very egregious if that’s what happened. I’m not saying it did, because I’m still skeptical it did.”
The Wolverines (8-0) were ranked No. 3 in the first College Football Playoff rankings on Tuesday. Michigan will seek to remain undefeated when it faces Purdue on Saturday.
