Emergency Podcast: Michigan's Moore Fired, Taken into Police Custody
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore was fired yesterday for having an "inappropriate relationship with a staff member." As of last night, he was being held in Washtenaw County Jail. Bruce and Ralph react to this news and what it means for Michigan.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, special edition of the Audible. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Ralph Rousseau from The Athletic, joined by my colleague, Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:24.6 | We didn't get a chance to talk about the Michigan news, |
| 0:27.1 | Sharon Moore being fired yesterday, |
| 0:30.9 | because it was a developing story at the time, |
| 0:33.3 | so it was making things a little complicated to talk about. |
| 0:36.0 | Stu is not here. |
| 0:37.4 | Bruce is here, and we're going to try to tackle what we know about Sharon Moore, what it means to Michigan and ramifications going forward. |
| 0:45.6 | Bruce, let me just, I think the best way to set the stage here is to just lay out the news as we know it. |
| 0:50.6 | So I might just read from our current athletic story. |
| 0:56.0 | But to get people up to speed, yesterday afternoon, Sharon Moore was fired by Michigan. The school cited an inappropriate |
| 1:03.9 | relationship with an athletic department staffer, and he was going to be fired for cause. |
| 1:10.4 | So there's that. Michigan's going to be at a very |
| 1:14.6 | weird time going into the market for a new coach after Sharon Moore was fired after two years as head |
| 1:20.3 | coach. Then things took, frankly, a bit of a serious and much darker turn. Sharon Moore was |
| 1:26.7 | detained by police. |
| 1:28.7 | He is in police, law enforcement. |
| 1:31.3 | He is in law enforcement custody as of right now that we are recording this in middle of |
| 1:37.1 | the day on Thursday. |
| 1:38.9 | He has not been charged with anything quite yet. |
| 1:43.8 | But clearly, the story took, again, a much more serious and |
| 1:49.1 | darker turn. So we're going to try to talk about this in a way where there's some rumors out |
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