Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh has been added as a defendant in a lawsuit involving one among his former assistants at Michigan, Matt Weiss. The go well with claims Harbaugh and different college officers appeared the opposite approach after studying that Weiss had been noticed hacking delicate info forward of the Wolverines’ Faculty Soccer Playoff look in December 2022, in line with the paperwork obtained by the Detroit Free Press.
The amended class-action criticism, from 11 ladies, additionally names Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel and former college president Santa Ono, amongst almost 50 others. The plaintiffs declare the college allowed Weiss to teach within the CFP semifinal on the Fiesta Bowl in opposition to TCU on New Yr’s Eve regardless of already figuring out in regards to the criminality. Harbaugh beforehand claimed he did not know in regards to the allegations till after Fiesta Bowl.
“The college put the pursuits of the [Michigan] soccer crew forward of these of the victimized feminine college students, additional discriminating in opposition to the plaintiffs and sophistication members,” the court docket submitting claims.
The college suspended and later fired Weiss in January 2023 after campus police opened an investigation into unauthorized entry of electronic mail accounts. Weiss was indicted in March on 14 counts of unauthorized entry to computer systems and 10 counts of aggravated identification theft. He’s accused of illegally accessing third-party databases tied to greater than 100 schools and universities, the place he allegedly obtained personally identifiable info on over 150,000 student-athletes to interrupt into the social media, electronic mail and cloud storage accounts of greater than 2,000 athletes.
The lawsuit additionally claims he prolonged his hacking to non-athlete college students and alumni, with a give attention to feminine school athletes.
Weiss joined Michigan’s workers underneath Harbaugh in 2021 as quarterbacks coach and was elevated to co-offensive coordinator the next 12 months. Earlier than making the transfer to school soccer, he spent over a decade with the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, working underneath Harbaugh’s older brother, John Harbaugh.
