When interviewing for a position on a football staff, Michigan coach Sherrone Moore says it’s important to be hands on and demonstrate your coaching style. In an interview with The Rich Eisen Show late last week, he detailed how he did just that his first time meeting Jim Harbaugh—an interview that ultimately laid the foundation for him to take over one of college football’s most storied programs.
During the interview, Moore was interviewed by Eisen, a devoted Wolverines supporter and Michigan graduate, for around twenty minutes. Eisen inquired about Moore’s path to being hired by Harbaugh’s staff in 2018.
Dan Enos coached quarterbacks for Nick Saban at Alabama that year after joining Michigan for just six weeks as an assistant. Those six weeks had a lasting effect on him because he asked Moore, his old Central Michigan assistant, to come in for an interview for the tight ends coach position at UM. Seizing the moment, Moore chose to show off his run blocking skills on a chair as soon as he was in front of Harbaugh.
From then on, the interview got really intense in a very Harbaughian way, and the Wolverines coach finally brought in a graduate assistant to fill in for the chair and start participating in it himself.
Moore remarked, “I started running blocking on the chair after taking off my coat.” He forced me to do it on a GA and pulled a GA because he wanted a cut of it. It was outstanding. It was a genuine interview with Coach Harbaugh.
“I simply wanted to demonstrate how I would instruct it. It was an amazing event that will never be forgotten.
Moore, who turned 37 this past week, advanced fast through UM’s ranks. He moved to coaching offensive line in 2021 and assumed the role of co-offensive coordinator. In 2023, he was appointed offensive coordinator full-time. In the Michigan game against Bowling Green last season, he filled in as interim head coach while Jim Harbaugh was serving a suspension related to the Connor Stalions sign-stealing scandal. Later in the season, he assumed the reins once more and guided the team to victories over Penn State, Maryland, and Ohio State.
Moore was the obvious candidate to take over the program after Harbaugh left to join the Los Angeles Chargers. Moore agreed to a five-year, $27.5 million contract to take over as head coach of Michigan.
