Netflix fans in frenzy after new documentary about Michigan football ‘sign stealer’ Connor Stalions

Opinionated sports fans flooded X with comments following the debut of Untold: Sign Stealer, which featured fallen football analyst Connor Stalions.

Stalions told his side of the story regarding the University of Michigan sign-stealing scandal in the documentary that Netflix released on Friday.

Since its release, X users have been split in their opinion about Stalion’s antics, with one person even calling him an ‘arrogant liar’ in their tweet.

However, many college football fans have come to his defense by praising his love of football, and suggesting he coach at more colleges.

Besides Stalions, his friends, parents, and multiple sports journalists gave their opinions on the sports scandal.

Former University of Michigan football analyst Connor Stalions told his side of the story in a new Netflix documentary about the infamous sign-stealing scandal

Stalions dreamed of becoming the head football coach at the University of Michigan.

Michigan hired Stalions as an off-field analyst after he left the marines in 2022.

Stalions was lucky enough to become a member of the coaching staff during the 2023 season, when an undefeated Michigan went on to win the National Championship.

However, the sign-stealing scandal, which began in October 2023, led to the NCAA opening an investigation into the school’s football program.

The organization later confirmed that Stalions was the focus of the investigation, and was accused of stealing opposing teams’ signals at their games, some of which he attend incognito.

He allegedly filmed the opposing teams’ sidelines and later decoded its coaching staff’s play-calling signs.

Central Michigan University opened their own investigation a month later after photos of what appeared to be Stalions at various games emerged online.

All of his actions were Level I NCAA violations, and after the school suspended Stalions with pay, he resigned in November 2023.

In the documentary, Stalions claims to NCAA officials that he never performed any in-person scouting.

‘I did not obtain signals through in-person scouting,’ he said before adding he didn’t recall ‘directing someone to go to a game’ on his behalf.

However, he also admitted that ‘there are some people who attended games using tickets that I purchased and recorded parts of those games.’

In another moment, Stalions is confronted with a picture of him attending another team’s game on the sidlelines.

Holding up the photo, Stalions says, ‘I mean, I don’t even thing this guy looks at me.’ 

The University of Michigan hired Stalions as an off-field analyst in 2022. The sign-stealing scandal began just months after the Wolverines won the 2023 National Championship

Following the investigation, the school also fired its football team’s linebacker coach Chris Partridge, and then-head coach Jim Harbaugh was penalized by the NCAA.

Stalions continues to be a Wolverine fan, and is Detroit Mumford High School football team’s defensive coordinator. 

Despite violating NCAA rules, many believe that Stalions was simply doing his best to help the team in whatever way possible. 

Stalions’ social media supporters have requested he go back to coaching, and that he is a ‘hero’ despite his actions.

‘Connor Stalions cost @Vol_Football a national championship… But that man loved football more than I thought you could; so can’t hate it,’ an X user tweeted.

Another X user wrote: ‘Cowboys need to hire Connor Stalions to put on a 49ers polo and just walk around the team facility loudly spreading gossip and rumors to further the emotional downfall of San Fran.’

‘I just finished the Connor Stalions documentary. I have bad news if you think that made Michigan look bad. It absolutely did not,’ one X user tweeted. 

‘He was just smarter than everyone and Ohio State fans look like cry babies. Penn State fans too but that’s just a constant thing tbh.’

Various X users have either supported or trashed the former football analyst for his actions

Some football fans who criticized the former analyst in the wake of the documentary also spoke ill of Jim Harbaugh – former Michigan and current Los Angeles Chargers coach.

‘Connor Stalions obviously graduated from the Jim Harbaugh school of lying,’ an X user tweeted.

They’ve also called Stalions a ‘liar’ and one X user referred to him as the ‘master of persuasion.’ 

Football fans have also trashed the University of Michigan’s team in general, and praised the Buckeyes for being a ‘better team.’

‘Ohio State couldn’t stop the run in 2021, changed their signs before the 2022 game and Connor Stalions was unemployed for the 2023 game,’ wrote a tweeter. 

‘But keep making excuses to distract from the fact that Michigan has simply been the better football team. Whatever helps you sleep at night.’