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Michigan football didn’t need to look long or far for its next head coach.
Believed to be the man in waiting since November should there be a changing of the guard, Sherrone Moore, the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach from Michigan’s 2023 national championship team, has officially been named Jim Harbaugh’s replacement and the 21st coach in U-M program history.
The school announced the hiring on Friday evening.
“Sherrone has proven to be a great leader for our football program, especially the offensive line and players on the offensive side of the football,” Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said in a released statement. “He is a dynamic, fierce and competitive individual who gets the best out of the players he mentors. The players love playing for him and being with him in the building every day.”
Harbaugh’s decision to leave Ann Arbor became official Wednesday evening. Manuel and president Santa Ono sent out statements which explained their desire to keep Harbaugh at U-M, but once it was clear he was leaving made it a point to keep staff continuity and name a successor in a timely fashion.
Michigan offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore is introduced during the national championship celebration at Crisler Center in Ann Arbor on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024.
That left a rather clear choice for them; Moore.
It’s been a meteoric rise up the coaching ranks for Moore, who just seven years ago was tight ends coach at Central Michigan, the highest position he’d held at the time. He took over the same spot in Ann Arbor in 2018, which he held for three years, before he was elevated to co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach in 2021-22.
“I have been preparing my entire coaching career for this opportunity and I can’t think of a better place to be head coach than at the University of Michigan,”…
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Author : Detroit Free Press
Publish date : 2024-01-27 00:06:59
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