Sherrone Moore on conversation with Jim Harbaugh, how he's handling leading Michigan coaching staff
Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore isn’t just in charge of the 120-plus players on the roster. As the head of the program, he’s also the boss to the coaching and support staffs.
On the ‘Inside Michigan Football’ radio show, Moore explained what he’s learned about himself as a first-year head coach from the beginning of the season to now, through six weeks heading into the team’s first bye.
“I’d say this: I want to be as poised as possible with our players,” Moore said. “I want to keep learning every week and making sure I push myself to learn and get better, because I’m not a finished product and never will be.
“And I want to make sure that I provide all the positive impact for our players and coaches that I can, and criticism that they need. All the things that we need to get better at, I gotta point it out and show them, and I’m going to continue to do that this week.”
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Moore was asked how he handles coaching his assistants.
“You just have to be real on what’s good and what’s not,” the Michigan head man said. “You can’t sugarcoat it, because it’s not about feelings or emotions — it’s about our team getting better. That’s the No. 1 thing you have to do.
“I’ve had some great conversations with some of my mentors and people. I got a chance to talk to [former Michigan head] Coach [Jim] Harbaugh the other day just about these situations and what you can do. And the only thing you can do is get better. He always says, ‘Don’t get bitter, get better.’ And make sure that the coaches are coaching their players the way they want to be coached — and that’s what we’re going to do this week.”
Moore is all about living in the moment and attempting to go ‘1-0’ each week. Michigan is 4-2 on the season but still has all of its goals in front of it, even if the margin for error is extremely slim after dropping its second game of the year.
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“The one piece is that all we can worry about is tomorrow — all we can worry about is, really, today, and get better today,” Moore said. “It’s a one-week season every week. Don’t worry about the next week, because as you look at college football, it’s chaos everywhere. Everybody’s going to play everybody, and these games will go all over the place. I mean, the Vandy-Alabama game, nobody would’ve thought that [the Commodores would win]
” For us, it’s literally just worry about the game we’re going to play and then worry about the next one, and put everything we can into this game and it’ll all work out in the end.”
Michigan’s next game is Illinois, and that will have a good deal of the Wolverines’ attention even during the bye week. Illinois will play Purdue Saturday, for reference.
Michigan played its first road game of the season last week, losing 27-17 at Washington, and it’ll be back to being the away team Oct. 19 against the Fighting Illini. Now that the Wolverines have gone through their travel routine, Moore has some more perspective on how his team is handling its business.
“I thought in the hotel we did a really good job of just being about business, and everybody was on time, doing the right thing,” Moore said of the Washington trip.” I want to see us take the same detail we have in the weight room, in the meeting room, on the practice field to the game. I want to see that just come to life and watch our team play at an elite, high level, because I think they can.”
