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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it's Mojoe in the morning show. I want
to talk about something right now. I would like to
discuss the elephant in the room, so to speak. I
want to talk about this. And I'm not going to
be the type of person that is going to sit
there and do this and say, you know, I'm not
a Michigan fan. I actually am maybe the only person
that will root for Michigan and Michigan State. I love
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both of the schools. There are state schools we you know,
want to see them win. I want to see you
at least one of them be good for God's sakes. Well,
the breaking news that came out yesterday about now fired
coach Sharon Moore went from oh.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
They were just getting rid of them. They're going to
fire the guy.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
They'll get a new coach, you know, we'll bring in
somebody that's maybe got a little bit more star appeal,
somebody that can get you know, this team with a
most expensive quarterback in sports playing right to holy crap,
they've been hiding something and now this coach has got
himself off a freaking brothel of women or something that's
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going on there.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
So it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Let's bring everybody up to data on stuff. Okay, so
let's do that. Let's hear you know what, maybe I'll
do this. I'll play a little bit in the news story,
and then when I play this a little bit of
a new story, we're going to come on and talk
about some of the social media posts that have been
all over the place since then. Here's the story from
ABC News.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Just hours after he was fired for an alleged inappropriate relationship.
A shocking development overnight involving former University of Michigan coach
Sharon Moore.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
ESPN reports he.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Was taken into police custody outside and Arbor last night
in connection with an alleged assault. Police in the town
of Pittsfield saying they responded to an address for the
purposes of investigating an alleged assault, but they did not
name More and no charges were announced. ABC affiliate WXYZ,
citing online records, reports the address is believed to be
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where a university staff member lives.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
It went from being a football story at about four
o'clock to being a much more serious story than that.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Earlier in the day, the university fired thirty nine year
old More, saying quote, credible evidence was found that coach
More engaged in an inappropriate relationship with the staff member.
More is married with three daughters.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
This is something that's been percolating at Michigan for the
last couple of weeks. There was an initial flurry of
speculation in an early investigation that died down toward the
end of the regular season. There had been a lot
of uneasiness on the Michigan staff. Sources and told me
Suaran Moore had been acting strange, but rating assistant coaches
not acting in a normal way.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
It's just the latest scandal to rock the Michigan football program.
Earlier this year, former offensive coordinator Matt Weiss was indicted
on federal charges, accused of hacking and stealing the private
and intimate images of thousands of student athletes at multiple universities.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He's pleaded not guilty.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
The program was also marred by recruiting and signed stealing
scandals during the tenure of former coach Jim Harbont, who's
now the head coach of the NFL's Los Angeles Chargers.
Moore himself has already served a multiple game suspension in
connection with those scandals.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, so you got a little bit of an
up to date on this one. What's the story here?
So the guy we now found out or we've got
rumors that are out there that he was having a
relationship with this younger girl. I'm going to call her
a girl because, be honest with you, I think she's
only like twenty something years old.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
She's not. She's that young. I think she is. Look
at that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Look at the picture of her that has been out.
What do you think age wise when you see her?
She got to be late twenties.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Okay, she shold enough to know what she's doing with
a married man with three kids.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But listen to me. I think she's young. I think
she's I think she's younger than that. I think she's
her name again shiver page page, Yes, well has that
been and has that been confirmed at all?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's hurt. No, that that's the girl that he and she.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Locked up and deleted all her social media.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Okay, so he has this relationship with her, then there
are you know, he gets fired, They do the investigation.
They you know, the announcement comes like four o'clock. He
then gets into his car and goes. It sounds like
from what I was reading here, this was a wild
ex Michigan coach Sharon Moore detained by the Saline, Michigan
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police this evening and turned over to the Pittsville Township
Police for an investigation. The City of Saline police came
out and said that they assisted the arrest, So that
story came out, you know, later that day, and now
we're hearing reports, and some of these reports are kind
of crazy. There's a couple of people post him. Sources
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have provided Rob Reinhardt. I don't know who that Rob
Reinhardt guy, but sources are him with graphic details that
are leading up to the arrest of former Michigan quarterback
or head coach Sharon Moore. During an argument with his wife,
more threatened to take his life. Yes, then he drove
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to and broke into the home of an assistant, where
he held a knife to his own throat and then
threatened to actually kill both him and his staffer. I
keep hearing that too, and I don't know if that
staffer is the coach, the assistant coach that his houses
he was at, or if it's because they refer to
this woman that he was having an affair with as
a staffer. Then he was then intercepted at a local
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church after his wife provided his phone location to authorities.
He is now in protective custody. They're saying that's he
was arrested. I mean, these are all obviously speculations and
not confirmed reports, but this is just weird of what's
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going on going on right now. And you're the head
coach of the probably one of the top three or
four biggest programs in college football. I mean, I would
say that this Michigan job will be the biggest job
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that is available this year, bigger than even that LSU
job that Lane Kiffin just got. And you took over
after a national championship win from a coach like Jim
Harbaugh that had some scandals, and you get yourself involved
in this stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
That's just believable to me.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I just got to say my piece real quick because
I'm about to look at it from a different angle
as a black man. This is specifically disheartening. This is
the first black head coach in his program's history. As
you just mentioned, we're talking about the University of Michigan.
Is not lost on me that less than two years ago,
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head coach for the Michigan State Spartan football team was
also fired because he was having sex with somebody that
wasn't his wife.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We are not in every room.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
The margin for error is less than it is for
some of our counterparts. And even though you shouldn't feel
this weight or this pressure of responsibility to represent for
a community, there is that there. And for you to
have this opportunity and trick it off because you couldn't
keep you in your pants is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It's disappointing to you. It's extremely disappointed. Can I tell
you something.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
When I think of, you know, great head coaches, I
put Tony Dungee as one of the greatest.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Head coaches that has ever coached the game.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And you look at a guy like that, who you know,
he lived his life to be an example, you know, not.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Only as a coach, but as a human beings.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And can I ever thought of that perspective coming in
here this morning. I honestly didn't think of that at all.
But it's very interesting though that you put it that way,
And obviously, as a black man, I could see where
that would be something very disheartening for you. I look
at it as just a here you got your opportunity
to have a dream job, and you just got done
beating your biggest rival two years in a row as
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the guy running the team because he was member. He
coached the last year that Jim Harbaugh was there, he
got a chance to be the coach at that Ohio
State game, and then he coached and won his very
first as the head coach. You have a program that
literally you could for the rest of your life, you'd
be taken care of. And you got a wife in,
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three girls at home that you are now not being
very responsible to right before Christmas. I mean, in this
obviously has been must have been going on for way
longer than this last year. This has been going on
for a bet. It's so disappointing to me when I
see stuff like this happen, and I think it's disappointing.
I'm not going to judge anybody, because listen, you know,
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let's not throw stones, right, but I just look at
this thing and I just go, God, man, what are
you thinking?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Like you what are you doing? And man, there.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Were people calling for this guy to be fired because
they didn't like the last season that we just had.
I mean, for God's sakes. The one thing that was
unbelievable with this guy. He had the best, you know
quarterback coming out of high school. And I kept sitting
there thinking to myself all the time, he should be
fired for the fact that this kid was never throwing passes.
The kid was They were running the ball more than
I've ever seen a team run a ball. And this guy,
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you know, is virtually going to lose this quarterback. Now,
it's guaranteed that this kid's not coming back to mining.
He willing to throw away as his career. Well, and
that's what he did. He threw away his career by
doing this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
We were just.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Talking about this a week ago, like not spitting where
you work, not having sex with coworker.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, and un less than a week.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It was legit the War of the Roses last week.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And I think that there's going to be more that
it will come out because I think that there's a
responsibility as a head coach to your program, and that
program is the kids that you're are playing for you,
but also think of the countless people that have employment
because of you, the other coaches, the other guys and
women who work on your staff, the training staff and
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all that stuff, Like, there are so many people that
you are responsible for as the face of your organization.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You talk about the athletic director.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I'm sorry because in that report that we just listened to,
under his watch, there have been mini scandals.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah. Does he have to answer of anything, because in
the last one he put it all on Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I hate to say this, and I don't want to
see anybody lose a job, but I think that the
university president needs to come out and the you know,
all those people that that are on you know, the
University of Michigan whatever they call them, the the Board
of Trustees or whatever. I think they got to look
at Ward to Manual and say, this is his program too,
This is bigger than Sharon MOR's program.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
This is Ward Manual's program. Something along those lines.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Oh, it's disappointing. I mean I I and I look
at this. You know, there's reports out there about, uh,
him trying to pay this girl off.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Oh that X is going crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Her salary book.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
To her, her salary went from like fifty grand to
ninety grand in a year, And that raised a lot
of eyebrows right off the bat. Yeah, it went from
fifty eight thousand dollars to ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, and the people that I feel.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Pregnancy rumors, there's stalking rumors, There's there's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I can't believe that call we got earlier, Yeah, we
gotta find that's Anna.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That brings up a really interesting one.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Go back and listen to the podcast or The First
Dirty and a call from a listener who said that
their friend was having in a relationship with your own
more while this was going on, currently going on. So
and called them last night about this I and I'm
gonna do the dirty because she is gonna continue this
coming up here in a little bit. I do think
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that the part of this that makes me the most
sad is.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You have a wife and kids there.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You know, like I think about the college athletes, You're
gonna be fine, you know what I mean. You're gonna
You're gonna either be in a program that's still gonna
be around, it will be around forever, or you're gonna
go to another program that will probably be even better, uh,
in better shape without all the scandal. But she and
her children have to pick up pieces from this, and
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it's all because of this guy not spending enough time
coaching and more time actually flirting or doing whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
The hell he was doing.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
And if the rumors are true of other people that
are going to come forward, that makes me go, how
the hell did this guy even have time to coach
or recruit or do anything. Uh, Jaden quick comment and
I want to get to the dirty. What's going on?
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Sounds good? How you doing, Mojo?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Good buddy? What's up? Done much?
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Man?
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Just want it's gonna make the shortened sweet. I was
telling the screen early, as you know, as a former
of Michigan alumni, this is absolutely disheartening man. Like you know,
I graduated from you know, not the ann Arbor campus,
but Deerborn Campus back in twenty twenty one. But I've
always been a life I'm Michigan football fan, and you know,
seeing all the ro times that we've been through and
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stuff before the championship there of twenty twenty three. But
to see what's happened to I head coach, no matter
what his record was or what it's like going was,
it's just it's just really disheartening and just sad to
hear about. Like you know, like I just I just
can't have much respect for those who disrespect women like that.
You know, I've been in a relationship for going on
eleven years now, and just hearing about this, like I
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said a million times already, is just embarrassing. Yeah, it's
knowing that over the next ten years or so we're
going to be nothing but an online lasting stock for
the for the entire country.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Well, and that's going to be an interesting thing of
how they pick up the pieces from something like this.
This is way worse than the Rich Rodriguez scandals that
were back in the day and the Rich Rodriguez you know,
and Brady Hope bad coaching situations, and this is definitely
way worse than science fealings. I mean, I will tell
you that, you know, honestly, Can I tell you something
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and I'm gonna throw this out there. You know who
the University of Michigan needs to hire and they need
to bring them in to actually reset this program. John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Ya.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You need to bring in the lineage of a Michigan man,
somebody that the university actually knows the names of. And
John Harbaugh as a coach in cal are in Pro
football right now, not having the greatest season, he may
not even be around at the end of the next year.
And you need to have the Harbaugh family and Jim's
dad and John rebuild this program.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Is there talk of that or yours a story?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
No, that's my that's my thoughts, that's my personal two cents.
I thought that when Cheron Moore wasn't doing a great
job coaching, so you know, I don't know. I think
that that would be really interesting