New details on Moore + Petrino to UNC
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Bruce, Katie Strang, and Austin Meek's bombshell investigation reveals disturbing details about Sherrone Moore's behavior leading up to his firing at Michigan. Bruce breaks down some of the epic dysfunction inside the program.
USC and Notre Dame's historic rivalry goes on indefinite hiatus after playing (almost) every year since 1926. Who's to blame for ending a century-old tradition?
Bobby Petrino joins Bill Belichick's circus at North Carolina as offensive coordinator. Will the volatile mix of personalities lead to Petrino as interim head coach by November? Then: the guys preview their favorite bowl games, and answer some mailbag questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Ralph Russo from The Athletic. |
| 0:11.1 | Join today, as always, by my colleague Stuart Mandel and Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:15.6 | Don't forget every episode of the show is on YouTube now. |
| 0:19.4 | Find us at Audible Show over on YouTube. Today, we have a really |
| 0:27.0 | interesting story that Bruce and a couple of our colleagues worked on about Sharon Moore. |
| 0:32.8 | We have some news on USC and Notre Dame, some news on Bobby Petrino and North Carolina. And of course, |
| 0:39.5 | we dive into the mailbag. But we're going to start with, again, what was sort of like a great |
| 0:44.3 | story on the athletic. I'm going to throw it to you, Bruce, some very interesting details on earth |
| 0:51.0 | by yourself, Katie Strang, and Austin Meek dove into what went on with |
| 0:57.7 | Sharon Moore, not necessarily after he got fired and then subsequently arrested, but what was |
| 1:05.2 | leading up to that and some of the things that he might have been doing that may have been |
| 1:09.9 | already red flags for Michigan. |
| 1:12.8 | So I'm going to throw it to you, Bruce, and tell us what we found out. |
| 1:17.9 | You know, we had been digging into a lot of rumors, and I think we had reported it on a bunch of different levels. |
| 1:24.1 | The overarching thing to me is there was an epic level of dysfunction going on |
| 1:30.0 | in that program, and especially as it relates to Sharon Moore. I'll be honest, as we were reporting |
| 1:36.0 | this, there was a lot of stuff that I just kept on thinking, if this happened at like a junior |
| 1:41.1 | college program somewhere in the middle of nowhere you'd be like |
| 1:44.3 | who that's crazy the fact that it happened at the university of michigan the bluest of blue bloods |
| 1:49.4 | coming off a national title is mind-blowing i mean some of the details of him him shronmore just |
| 1:59.9 | basically randomly dming strangers, women that he saw online on Instagram, |
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