Mussatto: How Michigan’s Sherrone Moore showed flashes of head coach potential at OU

Chris Messner remembers the dancing. James Patton remembers the leadership. Alan Bowman remembers the fire.

Each had a story to tell about Michigan coach Sherrone Moore, who played at OU in 2006 and 2007. Messner was a teammate of Moore’s on the Sooners’ offensive line. Patton was Moore’s offensive line coach. And Bowman? The Oklahoma State quarterback was a backup for two seasons at Michigan, where Moore served as offensive coordinator before he was promoted recently to head coach.

Moore, who’s never been a head coach until now, is taking over the defending national champion Wolverines. Moore acted as an interim coach when Jim Harbaugh was suspended, but with Harbaugh off to the Los Angeles Chargers, the 38-year-old Moore is captaining one of college football’s prestige programs.

“He believes that there’s nobody in the country that can beat Michigan, and I think the players believe that because he believes that,” Bowman said. “It starts with him. He brings the energy every day.”

Sherrone Moore enrolled at OU 18 years ago in January 2006. Moore was a junior college transfer, having been a two-year starter at Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas — 35 miles from Moore’s hometown of Derby, just south of Wichita.

Listed at 6-foot-4 and 300 pounds, Moore played in 14 games for the Sooners in his two seasons, mostly as a backup guard. The Sooners were Big 12 champs in both seasons, with back-to-back Fiesta Bowl losses to Boise State and West Virginia.

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While Moore’s Sooner career was unremarkable, Messner rejected the assertion that Moore didn’t play a big role.

“Everybody’s got a role on a team, and for me, looking back, Sherrone was always the teammate — it doesn’t matter if it was a good…

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Author : The Oklahoman

Publish date : 2024-02-04 11:30:41

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