michigan ’ Head Coach Sherrone Moore Crowned 2024 NFL Coach of the Year, Team Revels in Historic Victory…
A new man is in charge of Michigan football as it begins its national title defense.
Sherrone Moore was promoted from offensive coordinator and offensive line coach to head coach just two days after Jim Harbaugh left the post to take the head coaching job for the Los Angeles Chargers.
Moore, 38, is in his first head coaching position and has big shoes to fill as the Wolverines enter 2024 as the defending national champions and Big Ten conference champions for the past three seasons.
Moore was the clear choice after he stepped in to guide Michigan to three straight wins, including two top-10 wins, to close the 2023 season as the interim coach filling in for Harbaugh while he served his second three-game suspension of the season. The consistent dominance of the offensive line under Moore in recent seasons helped.
He is the first full-time Black head coach in Michigan football history. Running backs coach Mike Hart became the first Black man to serve as head coach when he was the interim in the second half of U-M’s Week 2 win over UNLV last year, and Moore led the charge the following week against Bowling Green and to close the season.
Here is more information on Sherrone Moore, the Wolverines’ new head football coach.
According to the memorandum of understanding obtained by USA TODAY, Moore has a five-year deal worth $6 million per season: $500,000 in base salary, a $500,000 retention bonus if employed for the entire contract year, and $5 million in “additional compensation,” which is to increase by 2% ($100,000) each subsequent year.
However, as of Wednesday of game week, that contract had yet to be fully executed according to USA TODAY — leaving Moore in a state of contractual limbo entering his full-time head coaching debut vs. Fresno State.
An athletic department spokesperson for Michigan confirmed this week Moore is not yet under contract. He’s one of a handful of Football Bowl Subdivision coaches who do not have a finalized contract.
Moore is still working under a three-page memorandum of understanding document he signed in January upon his hiring.
Moore was one of seven Michigan football staffers from the 2023 team named in the NCAA’s Notice of Allegations relating to the Wolverines’ alleged sign-stealing operation. Moore allegedly deleted 52 text messages with Connor Stalions, a Level II NCAA violation, the same day Stalions was reported to be the ringleader of the sign-stealing operation.
Moore, along with Harbaugh, could be considered a repeat offender by the NCAA because he was named in Michigan’s COVID-era recruiting violations, a separate NCAA investigation, and served a one-game suspension levied by the school at the start of last season.
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Harbaugh hired Moore as U-M’s tight ends coach in 2018 after serving in the same role on Central Michigan’s staff. After coaching the tight ends for three seasons, Moore was promoted to co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach in 2021.
He shared the coordinator responsibilities with Josh Gattis in 2021, then Matt Weiss in 2022 before taking over sole coordinator responsibilities in addition to coaching the line in 2023 following Weiss’ firing.
