Connor Stalions, the former Michigan football staffer at the center of the school’s sign-stealing scandal, will reportedly return to the sidelines this season.

Stalions has been hired as defensive coordinator at Mumford High School in Detroit, according to a report by the Detroit News. Stalions resigned from his job as a Wolverines offensive analyst in November after news of the scandal broke and was named prominently in a draft of an NCAA Letter of Inquiry that recently went public.

“I got the most hated man in college football right now, Connor Stalions,” Mumford head coach William McMichael told the Detroit News. “He’s my defensive coordinator.”

Stalions has not been officially sanctioned by the NCAA, but is likely to face some sort of punishment after being accused of failure to cooperate in the investigation. Last year, former Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt took a coaching job at Plainview High School (his alma mater) after being hit with a six-year show cause order and a one-year suspension for numerous NCAA violations.

Mumford has gone 1-8 each of the last two seasons and hasn’t posted a winning record since going 6-4 in 2019. The Mustangs open the 2024 season vs. Thurston on Aug. 30.