Sherrone Moore Confirmed As Michigan wolverines Head coach Things To Note About Him.
Michigan football didn’t need to look long or far for its next head coach.
Believed to be the man in waiting since November, 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.
That left a rather clear choice: Moore.
It’s been a meteoric rise for Moore, 37, whose coaching career started as a graduate student at Louisville in 2009, not long after his college playing career as an offensive lineman.
After spending three seasons at Central Michigan as an assistant/tight ends coach, he took over the same spot in Ann Arbor in 2018. Moore was U-M’s tight ends coach for three years, before he was elevated to co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach in 2021.
“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,” Moore said in the statement released by the school. “We will do everything each day as a TEAM to continue the legacy of championship football that has been played at Michigan for the past 144 years. Our standards will not change.
We will be a smart, tough, dependable, relentless, and enthusiastic championship-level team that loves football and plays with passion for the game, the winged helmet and each other. We will also continue to achieve excellence off the field, in the classroom and in our communities. I am excited to start working in this new role with our players, coaches and staff.