Sherrone Moore can still rebound from his arrest and affair scandal despite facing almost seven years in prison, a national champion coach has claimed.
On a wild week, Moore, 39, was fired as head coach of the Michigan Wolverines last Wednesday due to an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with a staff member, before police arrested him over an alleged assault just hours later.
The married father-of-three is accused of breaking into the Ann Arbor home of his executive assistant, Paige Shiver, with a knife before engaging in a verbal argument with an unnamed victim that quickly escalated. He also allegedly threatened to harm himself during the terrifying incident.
If convicted, he could serve a six-and-a-half-year sentence after being charged with felony third-degree home invasion and misdemeanors of breaking and entering and stalking, to which he has pled not guilty.
Yet despite his bleak situation, former LSU and Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron has backed Moore to bounce back after making key adjustments to his personal life.
‘I think coaches can always rebound. Once you make changes in your personal life that may have affected you – to lose your job and stuff like that – my dad used to tell me time heals everything,’ Orgeron, a friend of President Donald Trump, said in an interview with Fox News.
Disgraced Michigan coach Sherrone Moore has been backed to rebound from his scandal
National champion Ed Orgeron (left), a friend of Donald Trump, says Moore can bounce back
‘Once you make certain adjustments that you need to, maybe you have to start back at a lower position and work your way up, I think people can always do it.’
Moore – whose bleary-eyed mugshot was released for the first time on Wednesday – allegedly threatened an unnamed female staffer with several butter knives and a pair of scissors, a bombshell new police report has claimed.
He then screamed he would kill her and himself, claiming that she had ‘blood on her hands,’ cops said.
It is alleged that he threatened an unnamed female staffer after their affair came to an unsavory end.
In documents seen by Daily Mail, the staffer claimed that she had been in an ‘intimate relationship’ with Moore, with the coach himself admitting to detectives that it had lasted ‘approximately two years’.
She is alleged to have ended the relationship two days before the arrest, also filing a formal report to the University of Michigan revealing the details of their secret romance.
Moore, pictured with wife Kelli, was fired by Michigan over an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with a staffer before being arrested over an alleged assault last Wednesday
The married father-of-three was accused of breaking into the home of his assistant Paige Shiver (left)
Despite being dumped, Moore – who is married to his wife Kelli with three young daughters – is then said to have bombarded his former mistress with ‘dozens of text messages and calls’ over the next two days.
After spending Wednesday and Thursday night in a cell, he was released after posting a $25,000 bail, and was pictured alongside his wife over the weekend as she continues to stand by him. In a 911 call to police last Wednesday, Kelli told officers that her husband was ‘suicidal’ after losing his job at Michigan.
‘Hopefully, the things that are bothering coach, hopefully he gets help if he needs help, and hopefully he makes those adjustments,’ Orgeron added.
‘I think the number one thing, though, is for him to be OK. And I wish anybody in that situation that first, get yourself right. Everything else will fall into place. So, coach, if you’re listening, get yourself right. And everything else will fall in place.’
Orgeron, who clinched a national title during his spell with the LSU Tigers, is a well-known ally of Trump’s after receiving a congratulatory phone call from the President following his team’s Peach Bowl victory over Oklahoma in 2019.
Orgeron recently called for Trump to be ‘more involved’ in college football’s NIL conflict
This week the 64-year-old also called on his pal to have greater involvement in the current NIL controversy surrounding college football, saying: ‘I think [Trump] should be more involved. Something has to happen. Our sport is getting killed, man.
‘I love players getting paid. I think it’s fair. But I think there ought to be a cap, and the transfer portal, there’s got to be rules on it.
‘It’s kind of like the Wild Wild West. I’m talking to coaches, it’s like, “Hey man, we’re working 24/7, 12 months a year. It’s crazy when guys are coming, when they’re going.” But you know what? It’s got to be give and take. Players have got to get a lot, but the schools have got to get some guarantee in return…
‘I think the president, he loves football, he’s a friend of mine, the more he can step in and stop what’s going on in college football, the better off it’s going to be.’
