One sentence stuck out during Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore’s last spring press conference on Monday:
For the majority of the Wolverines’ players and coaches, if not all of them, this offseason has brought waves of uncertainty and upheaval; Moore, probably more than any other, has experienced this.
Moore has coached Michigan through a coaching staff upheaval, complete with various legal difficulties, and a significant roster turnover in his short three months as head coach. He doesn’t have a certain starting quarterback. During spring practice, one of his top returners and leaders sustained a serious injury. Not a single job on his coaching staff has been the same since the previous season, and he lost his entire starting offensive line.
Moore’s program is currently on probation as well, having paid fines to the NCAA for prior infractions. There are therefore a lot of unanswered questions about everything from coaches to players to the program as a whole, which leads to a lot of “we’ll see” responses.
It could also be easy to overlook the fact that Moore is still getting used to a very significant change in his own life as a head coach, given the apparently unending uncertainty surrounding the defending national champions.
Moore remarked on Monday, “It’s just different in that there isn’t as much football.” “I used to spend a lot of time watching football on two large screens in a room, but with days I spend more time managing an organization on a daily basis and
Yes, Moore served as interim head coach for a few key games during the previous campaign. It wasn’t nearly the same as taking on the role full-time, even though he may have had a taste of what was to come.
