It was February 2025 when the cracks in the facade of Sherrone Moore’s reign began to appear, or at least were put on display for his entire coaching staff to see.
In a meeting called by the then-Michigan football coach on a cold afternoon in Ann Arbor, Moore delivered a vitriolic outburst featuring tears and tossed papers in a virtual harbinger of his downfall at Michigan a scant 10 months later.
By December 2025, Moore would be no more within the walls of Schembechler Hall, fired for an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, and jailed the same day on a trio of charges related to allegedly threatening that same staffer.
But in February, Moore's ire was directed at Wink Martindale.
Martindale, the team’s defensive coordinator, had two decades of NFL experience, including nearly 10 years working for the Baltimore Ravens – a team run by former U-M coach Jim Harbaugh's brother John, and a pipeline for U-M coaches over the years.
