Michigan board did not discuss AD Warde Manuel's future at meeting - ESPN

The University of Michigan's board of regents did not discuss the future of athletic director Warde Manuel nor any aspect of an internal investigation into the school's athletic department during a meeting Thursday in Traverse City, Michigan.

The athletic department was the subject of much reporting and speculation this week on whether Manuel would be leaving a job he has held for over a decade.

A source told ESPN there is currently no timetable on determining Manuel's future nor releasing any, if any at all, part of a nearly $12 million investigation into the athletic department's «culture» from the Chicago law firm Jenner & Block.

Regent Paul Brown told Mlive.com that he expected at least some of the report will be released because «the finding and the steps that should be taken should be made public.»

Brown also noted to the outlet that the report contained «no major smoking gun» and instead any failures were the result of «death by a thousand cuts. A lot of little things that may not have been done as thoroughly or as best followed practices as could have.

»In some ways, it would have been easier if it was one glaring thing, but it wasn't," Brown said.

What that means for Manuel's future is unknown. The former Wolverines defensive lineman has run a department that has won multiple national championships — including men's basketball (2026) and football (2023) — but also found itself in numerous legal and NCAA scandals.

That includes NCAA violations involving former head coach Jim Harbaugh that led to a three-game suspension at the start of the 2023 season and the so-called «sign stealing» scandal involving former staffer Connor Stalions that led the Big Ten to suspend Harbaugh for three additional games in 2023 and