WATCH: Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore talks return, Nebraska win, bye week

Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore met with the media Monday morning for his weekly press conference to kick off U-M’s bye week. Watch video from his press conference below.

Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore

Moore, who missed the last two Michigan games with suspension, didn’t want to talk about where or how he watched the pair of victories, or what his emotions were being away from the team. He instead wanted to focus on the players, and made that clear in an opening statement.

“First of all, good to be back,” the Michigan coach said. “Missed the players, missed the coaches and staff. Vibes, energy are high. Vibes and energy were high when I left for Central [Michigan]. I felt like we had a really good week of preparation, and we played well. And I felt we did the same for the Nebraska game.

“Just wowed with the connection of this team. They’re just completely locked into the task at hand and what we need to do and how we need to get better.

“Always things to fix and correct, but how they played was really the most important piece, and we really emphasized that. It’s the ‘how.’ It wasn’t the ‘what.’ It’s the ‘how.’ There were some things we felt we needed to change and fix and do a little bit different, and really adapt to our players and adapt to the people that we have in the building now, not to what we’ve always done or anything like that. So, felt really good about that.

“Really want to talk about our [Michigan] team, our players — not my week, not what Coach Moore was doing for eight days. Worry about the players, this team, because the team right now is the most important thing, the players are the most important thing, what they’ve done, how they’ve handled everything, what the coaches have done. They have just continued to attack this right now, and that’s all I’m worried about. All I’m worried about right now is these players. 

“I got numerous text messages at 12:05, 12:01, and then seeing all of the guys coming in yesterday, just overwhelming love for these players and this team, so that’s what I want to talk about is the players.”

Michigan has a bye this week and will be back in action to host Wisconsin Oct. 4, before a road tilt at USC Oct. 11.