Like a hidden camera you don’t know is there, we cannot escape the sign-stealing saga centered around your 2023 national champion Michigan Wolverines.
Jim Harbaugh is gone. Conor Stalions is gone. Nearly every significant on-field contributor from the team is gone. Yet the punishments remain.
Michigan announced a self-imposed, two-game suspension for current head coach and then-offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore. Moore will not only miss Michigan’s third and fourth games of the season against Central Michigan and Nebraska, but he won’t be allowed to be with the team during the week, either. That’s a difference from Harbaugh, who served multiple suspensions during the 2023 season but was able to lead practice.
Now, it may come as a surprise to you that Michigan would impose this suspension on Moore since, only a few months ago, we learned that Michigan’s response to the NCAA’s notice of allegations featured phrases like “numerous factually unsupported infractions, exaggerates aggravating factors and ignores mitigating facts,” and said the NCAA was “grossly overreaching” and “wildly overcharging the program.” However, Michigan also said in its response that the transgressions, including texts to Conor Stalions from Moore that Moore initially deleted, should be viewed as a “Level II standard case.”
In other words: We may have committed some light misdemeanors, but that’s it.
The two-game suspension is very much in line with the slap on the wrist for which Michigan is looking. I mean, if Michigan were really taking this seriously and was scared of what the NCAA would do, it wouldn’t be allowing Moore the opportunity to pick when he’s suspended, would it?
Yeah, perhaps it raised an eyebrow when you saw Moore was suspended for Weeks 3 and 4…
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Author : Tom Fornelli
Publish date : 2025-05-05 19:47:00
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