The 74-page NCAA report detailed the rift between Jim Harbaugh's football program and the Michigan compliance department.

Michigan was spared a postseason ban and vacating wins, including from the 2023 national title season when the inquiry was launched that October.

It took the NCAA almost two years to punish the Michigan football team, and Joel Klatt has an issue with that.

Ann Arbor ― Michigan’s current players certainly had a vested interest in learning the NCAA’s punishment of the program for an investigation into an illegal scouting scheme, particularly whether that would yield a postseason ban that would affect them.

On the latest episode of “Wolverine Confidential” podcast, MLive’s Ryan Zuke and Aaron McMann analyzed the penalties the NCAA levied on Michigan and several staff members over the sign-stealing scandal that has cast a dark cloud over the program for the past two years.

After Connor Stalions received an eight-year show-cause from the NCAA for his involvement in Michigan's sign-stealing saga, his lawyers issued a statement.

The NCAA put the hammer to Michigan over an alleged sign-stealing scandal, fining the program heavily going forward. It did not, however, touch the program’s 2023 national title. Michigan is allowed to publicly claim the title it won on the field,