When Sherrone Moore knew he’d be the next Michigan football head coach

Michigan football head coach Sherrone Moore joined Joel Klatt for “Big Noon Conversations” and the episode dropped on Monday.

There are tons of fascinating nuggets from Moore. He talked about the Rose Bowl and his thoughts ahead of the game-tying drive. He also talked about becoming the Michigan football head coach.

Joel Klatt does amazing work for Fox Sports and has done an incredible job with his podcast. So I would take the time to listen to the entire interview when you get a chance.

However, one nugget that stood out to me was how Jim Harbaugh told Sherrone Moore he was going to be the next Michigan football head coach before last season was even over.

Jim Harbaugh told Sherrone Moore he’d be Michigan football head coach before 2023 season

“It entered my mind when Coach Harbaugh told me, ‘You’re gonna be the next head coach at Michigan.’ This year, he told me that. He said, ‘I don’t know when. I don’t know what’s gonna happen. No man can say the future, tell the future.’ But that’s how he is — he’s like that all the time. He just said, ‘You’re gonna be the next head coach at Michigan.’ I was like, ‘What?’ He was like, ‘I’m gonna put it in my contract that if I ever leave or go somewhere that you’re gonna be the next head coach at Michigan.’ He told me that at the beginning of the year. And I was just like, ‘What?’”

That should quash any ideas that Harbaugh wasn’t eventually going to leave Michigan football. Harbaugh was always going to take another shot at the NFL and he should. You can’t win a Super Bowl in college football.

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Harbaugh did win a national championship with the Wolverines though and that makes him the greatest head coach in program history. Now, he’s handed off the reigns to his right-hand man and his hand-picked choice.

Sherrone Moore says being named Michigan head coach was “humbling”

Hopefully, the success continues for Michigan football well into the future and if it does, Wolverines fans will have something else to thank Jim Harbaugh for — Sherrone Moore.

Moore still had to earn the job though and he did that in an interview with Warde Manuel who has said he was convinced after that interview that Sherrone was his guy.

Moore’s performance as interim head coach had to help. Sherrone said he was out recruiting when he saw that Harbaugh was leaving for the Chargers.

“I saw it. I was going through TSA, and it popped up on my phone — ’Jim Harbaugh to the Chargers.’ And that second, my phone — text messages, calls, text messages calls.

“Our AD, our assistant AD — ’ Hey you gotta come back right now.’ So I do the interview that next day and got the job on Saturday. Press conference, was on the road recruiting on Monday, and that was it. It was a humbling experience,” Moore said. 

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