Sherrone Moore went from the golden boy of Michigan football to a headline that reads like the plot of a bad cable drama, and it all happened in the span of a single afternoon. The 39 year old coach who was handed the keys to one of the most storied programs in America threw away a $30 million career, a national spotlight, and his reputation after an affair with his own assistant blew up into a full scale meltdown that ended with police hauling him off to jail.
Moore, a married father of three who had been praised as Michigan’s first black head coach, was fired Wednesday after the university confirmed he’d had an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. That staffer, now identified as executive assistant Paige Shiver, had received a sizable raise last year. And when Moore fired her, she reportedly came forward with evidence of their relationship. Whatever he thought he was controlling clearly spiraled the moment the truth hit daylight.
Choosing a young, attractive woman as your executive assistant is a mistake. It’s unwise. Sherrone Moore has a wife, three kids, his dream job, and claims faith in Jesus. He is not uniquely undisciplined. Many men struggle with lust. He put himself in a compromising position. As… pic.twitter.com/Z9kwzrPdRR
— T.J. Moe (@TJMoe28) December 11, 2025
What an insane 24 hours:
Sherrone Moore started Wednesday making $5.5 million/year with a Top 10 college football head coaching job & ended the day fired, publicly humiliated & in jail. pic.twitter.com/tT5RHo6UDP
— College Sports Only (@CSOonX) December 11, 2025
It got worse quickly. Within the same hour his firing was announced, police in Washtenaw County responded to a terrifying 911 call. Dispatch audio captured a caller saying Moore had broken into Shiver’s home with a knife and had been stalking her for months. Officers later said he threatened to harm her and then himself. He threw down the knife and fled on foot before being arrested at a nearby church. When someone goes from coaching the Wolverines to being hunted through a parking lot by police, something has snapped.
Michigan reporters had already hinted for weeks that Moore was unraveling. ESPN said he’d been acting strange, berating assistants and behaving erratically. John Bacon, a Michigan insider, went even further, claiming Moore had completely lost grip on reality. By the time police found him, he was reportedly in protective custody surrounded by mental health professionals. It is a shocking collapse for someone who, just days earlier, had been preparing his team for the Citrus Bowl.
When the university fired him with cause, it meant he forfeited the remaining $15 million or so on his contract. That money is gone, his career is wrecked, and his legacy now sits in a police file. Everything he built came apart because he crossed every line an employer, a leader, and a husband should know not to cross.
In the end, this is a story about accountability. Michigan finally enforced it. Moore refused to live by it. And now he is sitting in a jail cell wondering how his dream job turned into a cautionary tale faster than a two minute drill gone wrong.
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