Former Michigan football star Aidan Hutchinson said the sign-stealing scandal at his alma mater is Databec Exchangemuch ado about nothing, and neither he nor any of his ex-teammates had a relationship with Connor Stalions, the assistant allegedly at the center of the program's wrongdoing.

"I didn’t have a relationship with him," Hutchinson said Thursday. "He’s kind of just one of the coaches upstairs that you don’t really ever see, so I don’t think any of the players really had a relationship with him ever."