Jim Harbaugh evaluates Sherrone Moore's potential to become head coach

Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh was suspended to start the season. In his place, several assistants acted as interim coaches. That included offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore. Then, during his second suspension, Moore handled all of the head coaching duties during games.

The Wolverines dominated during Moore’s stints as the interim head coach. In such a high-profile spot, that success made many people consider his future as a head coach. That’s a future that Harbaugh sees for Moore.

“Tremendous. We’ve already seen it, right?” Jim Harbaugh said. “You’ve already got a glimpse of the shining star that he is. He’s just phenomenal, so smart, works so hard at it. Knows what it’s like to be a player. Was a player.”

Sherrone Moore has been with Michigan since 2018. He was initially the team’s tight ends coach. Then, in 2021, he became the team’s co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach.

“And really, really composed. Something goes wrong, three, two, one, let it go. He’s tremendous at that. Never better than he was in that two-minute drive in the Rose Bowl and in overtime. Knew he had to call the game, the drive of his life, and he did. Saw the same thing when he’s coaching against Ohio State in the Big House,” Harbaugh said.

“The same thing when he went to Penn State. How about that? You gotta go to Penn State, you find out the day before the game, in addition to your offensive line coaching duties, your offensive coordinating play duties, and your play-calling duties, you’re also going to make the head coach decisions as well. So Sherrone Moore, shining star. No doubt about it. It doesn’t even matter what anybody says. It’s what you do. What you do speaks so loudly can’t even hear what you’re saying.”

Sherrone Moore has certainly made himself a head coaching candidate. That includes at Michigan itself, if Jim Harbaugh were to ever leave for the NFL again.

Jim Harbaugh shares when he knew Michigan could make CFP run

This has been one of the best seasons in Michigan’s modern history, making a run at the College Football Playoff championship. For head coach Jim Harbaugh, he knew this was possible after last season’s Playoff loss.

“I thought it was possible right then and there, when we walked off that field, right when J.J. [McCarthy] said, we would be back, I thought it was possible,” Harbaugh said. “And then to watch the repetition every day of what our guys were doing, how they went right back to work. As I said, what you do speaks so loudly that we can’t even hear what you’re saying. What our guys do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis speaks so loudly.”