Sometimes, one problem leads to another until it’s a total mess—just ask Sherrone Moore. Jim Harbaugh may have landed the Chargers job, but he didn’t walk away clean. After a self-imposed three-game suspension in 2023, the NCAA dropped a four-year show-cause on him, sidelining him from college until 2028. Now, Moore’s fate looks bleak. As NevadaBuck put it best, saying, “I think Sherrone Moore is done… there’s no way they’ll allow him to stay on as Michigan’s head coach.”
The NCAA hasn’t ruled yet—but the clock’s ticking. A decision is expected before kickoff, and if it echoes Jim Harbaugh’s punishment, Sherrone Moore could be in real trouble. This feels less like discipline and more like a soft launch to his exit. Well, Michigan suspends him for two games, calls it accountability, and braces for the real fallout. Right now, Ann Arbor is under a cloud. Once seen as Harbaugh’s heir and the face of Michigan’s future, Moore is now right in the NCAA’s line of fire.
Josh Pate didn’t hold back from shedding light on the situation. He hinted that Michigan might be bracing for a bigger storm. The two-game suspension for Sherrone Moore? Just the tip of the iceberg, if you ask Pate. “It’s just a guess. I haven’t called our friends at the NCAA and asked them, but my best guess on this is Michigan understands something harsher than a two-game suspension for Sherrone Moore is coming. That’s their best guess,” he said. Sounds like the Wolverines are trying to get ahead of the hit, but the real punishment may still be on the way.
Here, Josh Pate painted the scene like a fly on the wall in Ann Arbor. Michigan’s brass, huddled up, trying to play chess with the NCAA. However, the vibe? Damage control. “Guys, they’re going to hit us. We should probably self-impose,” one might have said. Then came the realist: “Okay, but let’s be real, we don’t really know what they’re going to come at us with. So don’t go impose harsher sanctions than they’re going to come at us with. For all we know, they’re not going to come at us with much.” Finally, the compromise: “Okay, how about this? Let’s give Sherrone a two-game suspension.” So, according to Pate, Michigan isn’t just reacting—they’re bracing for impact. And hoping a small sacrifice might save them from a bigger blow.
However, Josh Pate kept the scene rolling—and it only got messier. Look, Sherrone Moore wasn’t about to miss the Oklahoma game. “I’m not voluntarily missing the Oklahoma game. That’s my alma mater, so you can take that somewhere else,” he reportedly said. But that didn’t stop the backroom scramble.
“We just got back from Sherrone’s office. He doesn’t want to miss the Oklahoma game,” someone chimed in. Another voice followed: “Oh, he’s probably going to have to miss it anyway.” Then came the final pivot: “Yeah, but until he actually is told that he can’t coach that game, we’re not going to be the one to tell him. So let’s suspend him for the third and fourth games.” To be honest, Pate couldn’t help but point out the oversight: nobody mentioned that one of those games is a tough conference road trip.
Now, Pate broke it down with a dose of dry humor. So what did Michigan settle on? A two-game suspension—weeks three and four. Why? Because they’re bracing for the NCAA to drop the hammer. But just maybe—on the off chance the NCAA goes light—they can say, “Hey, we already handled it.” It’s a gamble. A long shot. But it’s the move they made. As Pate summed it up, this might be Michigan’s version of damage control… or just wishful thinking in motion.
While a dark cloud already looms over Moore, the head coach’s future at Michigan looks all but sealed.
Sherrone Moore’s future with the Wolverines
The Connor Stalions scandal still haunts Michigan, and Sherrone Moore’s future may be caught in the crossfire. To dodge the NCAA’s wrath, the Wolverines handed Moore a self-imposed two-game suspension—conveniently timed to keep him on the sideline for the blockbuster Week 2 showdown against his alma mater, Oklahoma. But what happens after that? That’s what has folks nervous.
NevadaBuck didn’t hold back on Buckeye Scoop with Kirk Barton. “Even the stupidest Michigan fan has to look at this and think, ‘This can’t all be a coincidence,’” he said. Adding, “This can’t all just be some amazing bad luck that our president resigned or suspended Sherrone Moore or recruiting’s gone to heck. And we’ve got this looming case with the NCAA which nobody can really explain why.”
According to NevadaBuck, the heat on Sherrone Moore is real—and it’s getting hotter. There’s growing buzz that the NCAA could slap him with a show-cause penalty, a move that could crush his college coaching future. “If Sherrone Moore gets a show cause, I don’t know exactly what the rules but [Urban] Coach Meyer is under the impression, a lot of people are under the impression, that if you have a show cause, you can’t coach in college,” said the insider. We know, it’s the same type of hammer that drove Jim Harbaugh to the NFL. Now, if Moore gets hit, he’s not just off the Michigan sidelines—he’s untouchable nationwide.
Simply put, one ruling could leave a permanent scar. However, the connection between Sherrone Moore and Connor Stalions is impossible to overlook. Allegedly, Moore deleted 52 text messages with the mastermind of the sign-stealing scandal on the very day the news broke. But coincidence? The NCAA wasn’t buying it. They claimed to recover those messages through device imaging and handed Moore a Level 2 violation. So, it’s a move that raises more questions than answers. Now, the storm around Michigan is far from over.
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