Michigan players feel 'very betrayed' by Sherrone Moore scandal, interim coach reveals

Michigan interim caput manager Biff Poggi revealed this week that his players are battling emotions of betrayal and choler up of their vessel crippled quality successful the aftermath of the ungraded involving erstwhile manager Sherrone Moore. 

In his archetypal media availability aft Moore was fired past week and subsequently jailed connected 3 charges, including a felony location invasion, Poggi told the media that helium has been helping players process aft the assemblage revealed that Moore had been fired for having an inappropriate narration with a staffer. 

Michigan interim caput manager Biff Poggi answers a question during an NCAA assemblage shot Citrus Bowl quality league successful Winter Park, Florida, connected Dec. 15, 2025, up of his team's New Year's Eve quality against Texas successful the vessel successful Orlando, Florida.  (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

"It has been a tumultuous time," Poggi said, via ESPN. "A batch of ... archetypal disbelief, past anger, past really, what we're successful close present is the kids, rather frankly, consciousness precise betrayed, and we're trying to enactment done that."

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Poggi, who antecedently stepped successful to manager this play arsenic Moore served a self-imposed suspension for erstwhile NCAA violations, said he’s doing his portion done his actions "because words are cheap, and that takes a batch of time. What it truly takes is you being consenting to listen."

Moore appeared successful a Washtenaw County tribunal connected Friday, wherever his enslaved was acceptable astatine $25,000 and included respective conditions, including nary interaction with the alleged unfortunate successful the case. A not blameworthy plea was entered for him.

Prosecutors elaborate the alleged events that led up to Moore’s apprehension connected Wednesday, including that Moore had engaged successful an "intimate relationship" with the Michigan staffer for "a fig of years" and that connected Monday the pistillate broke up with him. 

Then-Michigan Wolverines caput manager Sherrone Moore looks connected during the assemblage shot crippled betwixt the Michigan Wolverines and the Illinois Fighting Illini connected Oct. 19, 2024, astatine Memorial Stadium, successful Champaign, Illinois. (Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Prosecutors accused Moore of contacting the staffer via telephone calls and texts aft the breakup, prompting the unfortunate to interaction the University of Michigan and cooperate successful its investigation. Moore was subsequently fired from his presumption arsenic caput shot coach, which prosecutors said prompted him to amusement up astatine the woman’s home. 

Moore past allegedly "barged" his mode into the residence, grabbed a food weapon and a brace of scissors, and past began threatening his ain life. According to prosecutors, Moore allegedly told the staffer, "my humor is connected your hands" and "you ruined my life." 

The University of Michigan hired a instrumentality steadfast to independently analyse the situation, and sources told The Associated Press that the probe volition grow beyond the shot programme to see the diversion department.

Michigan is scheduled to look Texas successful the Citrus Bowl connected Dec. 31. Poggi said this week that players person been fixed the accidental to determine if they privation to partake successful the game. 

Michigan acting caput manager Biff Poggi watches arsenic his squad plays against Nebraska during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled successful Lincoln, Nebraska, connected Sept. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz, File)

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"They're not implicit yet, and I don't expect them to beryllium implicit for a while. The mandate that Warde Manuel gave maine arsenic the diversion manager erstwhile helium asked maine to beryllium the interim coach, was to emotion and instrumentality attraction of the kids, and truthful that's what I'm spending each of my clip doing."

The implications of the latest ungraded to plague the Michigan programme volition apt spell beyond this season’s vessel game. 

Of the 27 prospects that signed commitments to play shot determination little than 2 weeks ago, astatine slightest 2 person already requested and were granted releases by Michigan.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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