Yes, it's extremely fishy. The travel was being hidden - the question is, by whom?
They're trying to spin it as: This proves it wasn't official travel. University officials, like the headcoach, knew nothing about it. How could they know? Stallions never even filed an expense report. University $$ were not being spent. He had no official backing. He was off on his own.
Someone needs to scrutinize all football expenditures during this period. Make sure nobody used a university credit card to "buy something" from Stalions Amazon storefront, or from any unusual vendor. And make sure the football program really has every employee they say they have. Fake paychecks or purchases are common and highly illegal ways of diverting $$ to fund your questionable expenditures, with no need for an expense report. Hookers or cocaine are much more common "questionable expenditures" in cases like that, than spy glasses, but who knows.
It is going to be harder to officially tie it back to Harbaugh if Stalions didn't use University $$. But with all that video of Stallions on their sidelines and in their ears, and the fact that Harbaugh is still responsible for what goes on, I'm not sure they need those Expense Reports from Stalions, asking for mileage reimbursement from Ann Arbor to CMU, etc , with Jimmy's big "X" of approval.
