Report: Michigan expected to suspend head coach Sherrone Moore

Michigan is expected to suspend head coach Sherrone Moore for two games during the 2025 season, according to ESPN’s Dan Wetzel. It’s a self-imposed punishment for the advanced scouting and sign-stealing case.

The suspensions are reportedly going to be for Michigan’s third and fourth opponents of the year: Central Michigan and Nebraska. Moore will be barred from any team-related activities during those weeks.

“Moore will also receive additional recruiting-related penalties,” Wetzel wrote. “The NCAA could still further punish Moore in addition to any self-imposed school penalty. A final resolution is expected before the start of the season … Moore’s suspension ties back to Moore allegedly deleting a thread of 52 text messages with Stalions, a former Michigan staffer at the heart of Michigan’s alleged sign stealing scheme.”

As Wetzel pointed out, there’s a difference between Moore’s suspension and former coach Jim Harbaugh’s, which was served to start the 2023 season. Harbaugh was involved in practice and team activities during the week but could not coach on game day.

Interestingly enough, since Moore’s punishment is self-imposed, he can coach early on in the season. He’ll be able to coach against Oklahoma in Week 2, where he played guard during the 2006 and ’07 seasons. Moore was previously suspended along with Harbaugh in 2023 due to self-imposed penalties from the university in a different case.

Back in January, Michigan reportedly planned to fight the allegations in the Stalions sign-stealing scandal, per Yahoo Sports. According to the 137-page document obtained by Yahoo Sports, Michigan pushed back on many of the allegations.

The school also accused the NCAA of “grossly overreaching” and “wildly overcharging” the program with a lack of credible evidence about the alleged sign-stealing scheme run by Stalions. The person who tipped off the NCAA to the situation came from UM’s campus and, at one point, worked for the school, the document said.

Michigan received an official Notice of Allegations from the NCAA in August of 2024, but the school said it made “numerous factually unsupported infractions, exaggerates aggravating factors and ignores mitigating facts,” according to the document. UM also asked the NCAA to treat the case as a “Level II standard case” instead of a Level I infraction – which is the most severe NCAA violation – and apply “common sense and [a] commitment to fairness.”