For Michigan and its football program, the wait is on for the NCAA to issue penalties after a two-day Committee on Infractions hearing.

The NCAA’s enforcement staff charged Michigan with 11 allegations, six of them Level I, the NCAA’s most severe, stemming from the alleged illegal scouting/sign-stealing scheme orchestrated by former player personnel analyst Connor Stalions.

Michigan went before the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions Friday and Saturday at the NCAA Headquarters in Indianapolis to argue its case. Michigan is not discussing the COI hearing.

“We are not planning to comment until there is a final resolution regarding our case,” associate athletic director Dave Ablauf, speaking on behalf of the football program, said in a statement Saturday.

There is no set deadline when the NCAA will issue its final response with penalties, but it is expected to fall within a broad window of eight to 12 weeks.

“They’ll get it out as soon as it’s ready,” one lawyer, who has been part of the COI process and asked not to be named, told The Detroit News. “It’s going to be a high-priority item for them. I would expect sooner than later, but there’s no set time frame. It’s whenever they can get it out.”

The NCAA opened the investigation in October 2023 in the midst of Michigan’s unbeaten season that culminated with a national championship. Then-head coach Jim Harbaugh has since moved on to the Los Angeles Chargers and could incur penalties from the NCAA, but Sherrone Moore, formerly the offensive coordinator/offensive line coach, is now head coach. Among the major issues is a suspension for Moore. Michigan floated a two-game self-imposed penalty. Michigan is considered a repeat offender because the football program also was involved in a 2021 investigation into impermissible recruiting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Detroit News has filed open records requests with the university for the NCAA’s Notice of Allegations and Michigan’s response, but those requests have not been fulfilled.

Clinton Speegle, an attorney at Lightfoot Law in Birmingham, Alabama, has represented programs and individuals in four COI hearings. After closing statements, he said all the parties shake hands to conclude the hearing.

“Then the waiting game starts,” Speegle said.

There is no communication, Speegle said, between the parties after the hearing concludes.

“We’re waiting just like the rest of the world is,” he said.

In the meantime, Speegle said they try to begin outlining a news release.

“So that when we do get word it’s coming out, we’re ready,” he said, “because it could be a surprise.”

There’s no specific date for when the NCAA will finally weigh in but with the possibility of a multi-game suspension for Moore, the NCAA would want this done before the start of the season. Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel has said he believes this will conclude by the end of the summer.

Speegle said the NCAA releases usually fall on a Tuesday or Wednesday around 1 p.m. The NCAA, in an email, says its statement will be out the next morning. The lawyers and involved parties get the release, he said, typically at 9 a.m. It’s publicly released an hour later, with a press conference an hour after that.

“That creates a mad scramble, and we try to get everybody lined up ready to go the next morning,” Speegle said. “I get (the email), read through it as fast as I can and try to get on a call with everybody from campus and brief them as to what the decision is.”

Then the university decides to accept or go to an appeals process, which is, he said, a totally different scenario. Until then, Speegle said everyone just waits. And waits.

“You walk out (of the COI hearing),” Speelge said, “and you go, ‘Hope I did my best for my client.’ But we’ll see when the papers come out.”