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Fired Michigan coach Sherrone Moore in custody at Washtenaw County Jail

The former Wolverines' head coach is a suspect in an alleged assault
Seth Berry|
Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore walks off the bus as the team arrive at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor ahead of Purdue game on Saturday, November 1, 2025.
Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore walks off the bus as the team arrive at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor ahead of Purdue game on Saturday, November 1, 2025. | Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

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Sherrone Moore was in custody on Wednesday night in the Washtenaw (Michigan) County Jail as a suspect in an alleged assault, according to a report from ESPN's Pete Thamel and Dan Wetzel.

Moore was initially detained by police in Saline, Michigan on Wednesday and turned over to authorities in Pittsfield Township "for investigation into potential charges," just hours after he was fired as Michigan football's head coach for having what the school said to be "an inappropriate relationship with a staff member."

The Pittsfield Police Department released a statement on Wednesday night saying it responded to an incident at the 3000 block of Ann Arbor Saline Road "for the purposes of investigating an alleged assault" and that was suspect was taken into custody.

The full staement was posted by Thamel to his X (formerly Twitter) account:

Eariler in the night, Saline police stated it "assisted in locating and detaining former University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore" and that Moore was turned over to the Pittsfield Township Police Department for investigation into potential charges.

Michigan's statment on the firing of Moore

News broke of Moore's termination earlier on Wednesday following an invesitgation into his conduct with a staff member of the program.

"U-M head football coach Sherrone Moore has been terminated, with cause, effective immediately," the statement read from Michigan Athletic Director Warde Manuel. "Following a University investigation, credible evidence was found that Coach Moore engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. This conduct constitutes a clear violation of University policy, and U-M maintains zero tolerance for such behavior.

"Biff Poggi has been appointed head football coach in an interim capacity, effective immediately."

Moore spent two seasons as the Wolverines' head coach after serving as the team's offensive coordinator and offensive line coach from 2021-23. The 39-year-old came onto Michigan's staff in 2018 as the tight ends coach for Jim Harbaugh as he coached that position group for three seasons.

Before that, Moore five seasons at Louisville and four seasons at Central Michigan before coming to Ann Arbor.

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Nov 22, 2025; College Park, Maryland, USA; Michigan Wolverines head coach Sherrone Moore on the sidelines during the first quarter against the Maryland Terrapins at SECU Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images | Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images

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SETH BERRY

Seth began writing on Michigan athletics in 2015 and has remained in the U-M media space ever since, which includes stops at Maize N Brew and Rivals before coming onto Michigan On SI in June of 2025. Seth has covered various angles of Michigan football and basketball, including recruiting, overall team coverage and feature/analysis stories relating to the Wolverines. His passion for Michigan sports and desire to tell stories led him to the sports journalism world. He is a 2020 graduate of Western Michigan University and is the former sports editor of the Western Herald, WMU's student newspaper.

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