Rece Davis reacts to Michigan delaying Sherrone Moore suspension around Oklahoma game: 'I'm actually glad'

Rece Davis is actually quite fine with Sherrone Moore’s delayed suspension this season. Michigan self-imposed a two-game ban for Moore in light of the sign stealing scandal and the coach’s alleged involvement of deleting text messages as evidence.

He’ll be out for the games against Central Michigan and Nebraska. However, Moore will be able to coach against New Mexico and Oklahoma, his alma mater, to open the 2025 season.

While some questioned the suspension not starting right away, Davis was fine with it. He offered his take this week.

“Sherrone Moore serving a two game suspension, but not the first two games, which I’m actually glad,” Davis said on The College GameDay Podcast. “Sherrone needs to be able to go back to Oklahoma, where he played, as a head coach, you know? I want him to be able to do that. I’m glad that they’re kicking the can down the road and doing the suspension for games three and four, it seems … That’s why they’re doing it. Otherwise Nebraska, potentially could be a big game. He’s going to miss that one.

“So I mean, clearly this is a big reason why, if they want this to happen, it’s almost certain, they can delay the process, kick the can down the road until they at least pass that ,one would think. Some sort of appeal, new discovery, new this, new that to try to, if they start to get the sense it’s not going to go their way.”

As ESPN’s Dan Wetzel pointed out, there’s a difference between Moore’s suspension and former coach Jim Harbaugh’s, which was served to start the 2023 season. Harbaugh was involved in practice and team activities during the week but could not coach on game day.

Interestingly enough, since Moore’s punishment is self-imposed, he can coach early on in the season. He’ll be able to coach against Oklahoma in Week 2, where he played guard during the 2006 and ’07 seasons. Moore was previously suspended along with Harbaugh in 2023 due to self-imposed penalties from the university in a different case.

Back in January, Michigan reportedly planned to fight the allegations in the Stalions sign-stealing scandal, per Yahoo Sports. According to the 137-page document obtained by Yahoo Sports, Michigan pushed back on many of the allegations.

The school also accused the NCAA of “grossly overreaching” and “wildly overcharging” the program with a lack of credible evidence about the alleged sign-stealing scheme run by Stalions. The person who tipped off the NCAA to the situation came from UM’s campus and, at one point, worked for the school, the document said.

Michigan received an official Notice of Allegations from the NCAA in August of 2024, but the school said it made “numerous factually unsupported infractions, exaggerates aggravating factors and ignores mitigating facts,” according to the document. UM also asked the NCAA to treat the case as a “Level II standard case” instead of a Level I infraction – which is the most severe NCAA violation – and apply “common sense and [a] commitment to fairness.”