Sherrone Moore on return to Michigan sideline: 'It's like Christmas morning'

Michigan coach Sherrone Moore returned to the sidelines Saturday against Wisconsin following his two-game suspension in light of the sign stealing scandal. Moore was like a kid again, so it seemed.

“It means everything, it’s like Christmas morning,” Moore told FOX’s Jenny Taft just before kickoff on the broadcast. “I just open up the best present in the world. So let’s go, let it rip.”

No. 20 Michigan (3-1) began Saturday’s game against Wisconsin (2-2) on defense after electing to kickoff following the coin toss. The Badgers had to start former third string QB Hunter Simmons due to injuries.

Michigan had a bye week following its 3-1 start to the season. Moore said he saw notable improvements, especially in the health department.

“Yeah, the first thing we try to do is just get healthy, and I think we did that,” Moore said. “We got a lot of guys that were dealing with little things and banged up, so try to give the older guys that played a lot of football in these four games some time and still practice football, still getting better at it, still doing things fundamentally, but try to get them healthy, get their legs back underneath them, and saw yesterday in practice that you felt that pop, you felt that energy to them.”

If Moore and Michigan are going to go far the remainder of the season, it’ll go through freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood. He’s improved week to week and has opened up in the run game a bit too.

“Yeah, to just keep getting better,” Moore said. “The kid just is constantly working, constantly striving to get better. And he’s going to continue to do that. And we’re going to let him play, and play free, and play loose, and have fun, you know, have fun doing it. And he does that. When he touches the football field or gets in the facility, there’s always a smile on his face.

“There’s always that glimmer in his eye of him wanting to be really good at football. And he’s starting to do that even more and more. And he’s got immense talent. And just excited for him to show it as we go through the season.”