FBI working with university police in investigation of former Michigan OC Matt Weiss, per reports

The University of Michigan police division has been working for a number of months now with the FBI to analyze the alleged laptop get entry to crimes dedicated by means of former Michigan co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss, The Detroit Free Press reported Thursday. U-M police instructed the Free Press that the investigation, whilst “extensive, ongoing, and is of the utmost priority,” isn’t associated with the NCAA’s investigation into alleged stealing of combatants’ play-call indicators by means of the Wolverines.  

Weiss used to be suspended and therefore fired by means of Michigan in January after the investigation used to be introduced by means of U-M police. The alleged laptop get entry to crimes dedicated by means of Weiss passed off from Dec. 21-23 in the workforce’s soccer amenities, days ahead of the Wolverines departed for his or her College Football Playoff matchup in opposition to TCU. A Jan. 5 file in the university’s Daily Crime & Fire Log, presumed to be bearing on Weiss, described “fraudulent activity involving someone accessing university emails accounts without authorization.”

Weiss has no longer been arrested. He launched a remark after his firing pronouncing he expected “putting this matter behind me and returning my focus to the game I love.” 

Weiss, 40, had simply finished his 2d season on Jim Harbaugh’s workforce and primary as co-offensive coordinator on the time of his firing. He arrived to the Wolverines as quarterbacks trainer in 2021 after spending greater than a decade with the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens in a wide range of assistant roles. Weiss used to be a member of the Vanderbilt soccer workforce from 2001-03 as a walk-on punter, however by no means noticed enjoying time in his collegiate occupation. 

As for Michigan’s unrelated sing-stealing scandal, the NCAA introduced an investigation into the subject closing week ahead of reportedly sending enforcement staffers to Michigan’s campus in Ann Arbor this week. The Wolverines are accused of a scheme — allegedly spearheaded by means of suspended analyst Connor Stalions — in which tickets had been bought to a swath of Michigan’s Big Ten and possible CFP combatants over a two-season span with the aim of filming and deciphering play-call alerts. Harbaugh has denied any wrongdoing by means of Michigan’s workforce and vowed cooperation with the NCAA throughout the investigation.