Sherrone Moore was named Michigan's 21st head coach on 1/26/2024. With the 2025 class wrapped up and the portal closed, I thought it was a good time to grade the first year head coach on his success or failures in Year 1.
2024 Transfer Portal: D- (They only reason this is not an F is because he picked Michigan's MVP place kicker Zvada out of it)
2024 Hiring of Coaches: C+, some bad hires and some bad situations. Looks to be a solid staff but there were some mistakes.
2024 Offense: D- (since he was the former Michigan OC, this is on him)
2024 Defense: B-
2024 vs. Rivals: A (wins over USC, OSU, MSU, and Alabama)
2025 Recruiting Class: A
2025 Transfer Portal: B+
Summary Before Final Grade:
Sherrone's biggest mistake of the year was not finding a QB in the portal. Yes, I know after Michigan won the NC, it was slim pickings but IU made the playoffs with a MAC QB. Michigan had to bring someone in. Everyone knew this was a need and still Michigan did nothing without a viable starter on the roster.
His second mistake was some bad road loses to Washington, Illinois, and IU. All were winnable games with some type of offense and Michigan could not find any. Michigan's defense which Wink was running needed to dominate and in those games they could not.
The highlight of the year was the big wins. Beating OSU and MSU is job #1 and he accomplished that. Hitting the transfer portal in 2025 and signing a top recruiting class was his 2nd most important job and he did a really nice job in both. There was a time mid-season, I didn't think Sherrone could do this job and his recruiting and OSU win saved the day.
Overall Grade: B-
Sherrone got off to a rough start to his career. The team did not play well in the first half of the year without a QB. Then played terrible in the middle but ended with a huge upset of Ohio State the Peach Bowl Champion and Alabama in the Outback.
I cannot forgive the huge miss at QB, that is a mistake a head coach or even the OC (his former role) can not make. The man can recruit and pulled some great players out of the portal this cycle. Grabbing Underwood was incredible in the 2025 class. Michigan had historic talent on defense and rarely dominated any game under Wink's leadership.
Sherrone showed he was a first year head coach many times last year. This is a destination job and not a developmental one. If a Billionaire doesn't fall out of the sky, Michigan gets beat in Columbus, and loses the Music City Bowl. Sherrone might not even be the head coach today. That is how close of line success and failure is in this job. He was not ready to be Michigan's Head Coach and let's hope last year gave him enough experience to be much better next season.
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I'm mostly with you, but think Day deserves credit for our Ohio 'win', instead of Sherrone or other Mich coaches (even wink). Day wanted to win 'tough', and he lost by sheer ineptitude. It's a stretch to give that win to Sherrone. I'd knock him down to a solid C, as the no QB in the portal is borderline unforgivable.
We will be garbage next year as well. Another 8-5 season. Following year we should contend for Big Ten and make the Playoffs!!
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Agreed. Day was bent on showing how tough his team was and trying to out "Michigan" Michigan. He and Chip Kelly failed to take advantage of their speed on offense and get to the edges of the Michigan D. Instead they tried to run into the strength of the Michigan D: Mason Graham and Kenneth Grant
Ohio State threw the ball 33 times so the credit goes to Wink and arguably the two best DL Michigan has ever had. Overall Sherone is an F and it's not his fault, he's just in over his head, but now that he is buying talent he will win enough. Even with no QB Michigan beat the NC which is still insane. The fact that Sherone benched Davis Warren which he should have during that game and then went to Orji instead of working with Warren and putting a safe game plan together showed that he doesn't know what to do. "Oh but he also beat Alabama", which yes he did, but Campbell was fired and he called some garbage that showed it wasn't Campbell it was Sherone. Throwing a trick pass in a down pour just to do it? Unless he saw something which he didn't, that was a joke. Oh and how about giving Alabama a TO right before half to help them drive and score a FG?! Sherone is a great guy and won't be fired because we are now paying so he will win enough with talent.
Ok calling USC and Bama rivals is a bit much. Michigan's rivals are in this order: OSU, MSU, and that chicken shit program from South Bend
Had a good chuckle over chicken du-du ND .... only difference is I put Notre Dame first as my most hated rival. I think next year we come out smoking from the get-go .... but that's just a layman's thoughts/dreams. Maybe a bodacious passing attack that catches everybody with their drawers down.
Hard for me to make ND #1 as we don't play them anymore cause they turtled and didn't want to play us anymore. Now I do hate them as my ex-in-laws were golden domers, plus them turning down the B1G so many times cause they wanted to be independent. Eff 'em!
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