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Connor Stalions maintains serious goal to become head coach at Michigan

Paul Harvey

By Paul Harvey

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Connor Stalions has big dreams of becoming a college football head coach, even if his dreams took a hit after he was embroiled in a massive sign-stealing scandal at Michigan.

This past season, Stalions served as a high school assistant in the state of Michigan and even helped guide 5-star prospect and eventual Michigan signee Bryce Underwood. And while returning to the college ranks might seem like a long shot at this juncture, the former analyst under Jim Harbaugh was adamant in an interview with On3 Sports that coaching the Wolverines is the major goal of his career.

“Oh, of course, yeah,” said Stalions about the idea of coaching Michigan serving as his “North Star.”

“I’ll outwait anyone,” Stalions claimed. “Whenever. Whenever it’s time.”

What will it take to get there? Stalions said he would coach at rival Big Ten programs to wait his turn, with a few obvious stipulations.

“If it’s not Ohio State or Michigan State, yeah,” said Stalions about coaching at a different Big Ten program.

When pushed on the idea of potentially coaching at Ohio State, Stalions finally caved to the wild hypothetical but admitted it’s not ultimately about whether or not he would coach there:

“Well, they would be crazy to do that,” said Stalions about being approached to serve at Ohio State. “Because they know if I were actually at Ohio State, we’d go 11-0 and then take a knee when we’re down or something late in The Game…

“Obviously, Ohio State would never even consider that, so this hypothetical, I’m putting it back to them. I mean, I’ll answer the phone if they call.”

We still have not heard the final call from the NCAA on the original sign-stealing scandal involving Stalions, so we’ll have to wait and see what the potential punishment is. But if he ever gets the call from Ann Arbor, you can be sure Stalions will jump at the opportunity.

Paul Harvey

Paul is a lifelong fan and student of all things college football. He has been covering college football since 2017 and the B1G since 2018.