The Sherrone Moore debacle

Given my interests a lot of people have been asking/expecting me to post about the Sherrone Moore situation.

There are a lot of things that can be said about this, but I’m going to stick to just one aspect of it here, which is the grotesque incompetence of upper university administration, in this case Michigan’s athletic director Warde Manuel, who is paid $2.5 million to do a job that could with little exaggeration be described as “make sure bad things don’t happen to the football program.”

I watched Moore’s arraignment this morning, and it was sickening. Moore, per prosecutors, broke into his former girlfriend’s apartment, ranted at her that she had ruined his life, and pulled out scissors and butter knives from a drawer and threatened to kill himself in front of her, while she called the police in reasonable fear for her life (Moore is a former offensive lineman; the woman is literally half his size).

The woman, again per prosecutors, had broken up with Moore on Monday. (Moore is married with three small daughters). The woman was also Moore’s personal assistant, which of course constitutes an extreme violation of university intimate relation policies. Apparently both of them had lied to university investigators when the matter was investigated this past summer on the basis of a third party complaint. It turns out that this was the THIRD time the university had investigated Moore for sexual misconduct.

On top of all this, it now turns out that Moore was following around 300 OnlyFans models on Instagram. This was public information in that apparently when you follow people on Instagram anybody who looks at your account can see that. An Instagram model who happens to be a very big Michigan football fan claims that Moore DMed (direct messaged apparently although Boomer FPer here doesn’t know how any of this stuff works) her during halftime of Michigan’s biggest game of the season against Ohio State three weeks ago. This seems literally incredible to me, and of course the OF model’s whole job is generating publicity for herself, but given what else has happened who knows?

I’m the furtherest thing from an “insider” and I have no real connections to anybody connected to Michigan football, but I have been hearing FOR WEEKS that Moore was having an affair with an athletic department staffer, along with a lot of other details that I won’t post because I don’t know yet if they’re true or not, although I guess we’re going to find out.

Again, the aspect of this that most interests me professionally speaking is how the hell somebody is paid $2.5 million per year to do literally one thing, fails utterly to do that thing, and is still as of this moment employed to do that same job.

The meritocracy!

. . . I’ll just add something I posted on the Michigan football board:

You know that old SNL skit about Buckwheat shooting the president, where they interview one of his neighbors and ask him if he could have ever imagined something like this happening, and the guy says “oh yeah, it was all he ever talked about?”

The KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that Moore was an out of control sex/porn addict. This guy was following 300 OnlyFan models! In public! Sparty fans were posting about it!

WHERE THE FUCK WAS WARDE MANUEL? The guy who knew that there had now been at least THREE investigations of Moore for sexual misconduct!

On top of that it’s been confirmed by various sources that Moore was acting all weird and depressed for at least the last two weeks. His coaches were talking about how he was going off on them in weird ways — unhinged emotional outbursts.

Again WHERE WAS WARDE MANUEL?

What happened Wednesday was EMINENTLY FORESEEABLE. Good ‘ol Warde is acting like it was the equivalent of a hurricane in Ohio in December, as opposed to a snowstorm in Minnesota.

Jesus Fucking Christ