Sign Stealing, Spying In College Football Are Certainly Nothing New

It is rather ironic that against the backdrop of current events it was a former Michigan coach who made some noise last August about his program being spied on in spring drills and again in preseason practice.

Before his first game as head coach at Jacksonville State, Rich Rodriguez, who spent three seasons (2008-10) in Ann Arbor, told members of the media that somebody from Stephen F. Austin, the Gamecocks’ Week 0 opponent, was up to no good when it came to checking out his team.