Retaining Sherrone Moore

This is a huge first world problem.

And I think from Harbaugh on down, we have a culture that will be excited for his new opportunity. Maybe we fans should follow their great example. I love the culture that the staff/players have. Thank you, Coach Harbaugh!

The way I look at it, we either keep Harbaugh or Moore. Win-win, kind of.

Sorry but we want him to go to another program as head coach and be successful just like Jedd Fisch. Harbaugh hired him and can hire successfully again.

Coach Moore is a Michigan man and if proven successful in the future if he wants to come back then he will be welcomed back with open arms. He needs to demonstrate that he can build a successful program.

This is Harbaughs team and I think minter would have won all four, too. I love Sherrone but these players are self functioning. 

If Harbaugh stays, he’s probably gone. And that’s ok. Good programs lose coaches.

Maybe he comes back after a successful 3-4 year stint at a mid-major or lower end P4 team.

This is his press conference after the Penn State game.  His comments at the 1:10 mark really stuck out to me.  If this place really means this much to him I could see him sticking around as a coach in waiting if Harbaugh does end up leaving in a few years.  

Not to throw cold water on this, but remember that Harbaugh was still coaching the team the other six days of the week. I don't know everything that goes into the HC role, but Harbaugh was still filling it most of the week. We don't know how the last three weeks would have been if he could not have any contact with the team for the entire duration.

I'm going to play devils' advocate here. Sherrone Moore did a bang-up job each of the last 3 Saturdays. But this was still Jim Harbaugh's team. He ran things 6 days of the week and also met with the team before they headed to the stadium on the 7th day. There's a lot more involved leading up to Saturday noon that Moore didn't have to do. Might it be better for him to go to a smaller school and run an entire program first?

Edit: lilpenny beat me to it.

I, too, love Coach Moore and hope he stays at Michigan, but I don't believe in standing in the way of someone's opportunity (in this case with $$) and, given his prior public statements, I doubt that Coach Harbaugh would want to do so.

I'm worried about both coordinators. The defense being solid has been just as crucial as the Oline play.

Sad to say but institutional racism may keep him off the list for many schools. I haven't seen him listed for any prominent jobs. It's a lot like the NFL. Seems like most schools will look at white retreads and/or young guys w/ thin resumes before they look at a qualified black coach (ducks).

Agree with you and think we should do whatever is necessary to keep him.  However, if he were to leave for a HC position elsewhere it would suck having to fill his shoes, but I do see a couple positives.  1) It would give him experience he would not receive if he were to stay here.  2) Then when JH retires (hopefully he stays till then), Moore can come home with many years of leading a program and keep us at the level we have experienced the previous 3 years.  Go Blue, Beat Iowa!

I think Sherrone knows he has the HC job here lined up if Harbaugh leaves. He's probably going to stick around unless a high tier power 4 job is offered to him. 

Personally, I think we have at least another year with Moore. With the amount of pearl-clutching going on around Signgate, schools are probably reluctant to hire someone as a head coach with an immediate PERCEIVED albatross. 

This is not to say Moore did anything wrong. I don't think he did. But if he gets hired before the NCAA concludes its investigation, I'll be surprised. 

I think Harbaugh will be coaching in the NFL next year and the choice of who succeeds him as Michigan’s coach will be critical. It shouldn’t automatically be assumed Moore would be the best choice. As we’ve seen over and over again, success as a coordinator doesn’t guarantee success as a Head Coach. It took years of struggle and a near firing before Harbaugh, who already had a track record of success, to get Michigan to where it is. It’ll be just as hard for someone else to maintain what Harbaugh built, and maybe even harder. If they make the wrong choice, all of this can disappear quickly.

I'm sure I'll get negged but the story and script make perfect sense for him to take over this program after the season ends.

I said this in a thread on Sunday, but I truly believe Coach Harbaugh has already made up his mind and has been campaigning for Moore to be his successor behind the scenes.

I really hope Coach Harbaugh stays here but if he doesn't, I think we are in good hands with Coach Moore.

Go Blue! Beat Iowa!

I'd love for him to stay. I think there is a chance he will. I really like hearing how the team likes him. I really like the trust Harbaugh put into him. I of course love how he beat his arch-rival substitute teacher Ryan "Softness" Day. 

But if he chooses to leave, he's earned it. i will root for his success and the team he goes to.

I would love to retain him, but I would be supportive of him also to take a coaching vacancy. I just hope and pray that he takes the Dan Lanning approach if he’s hired somehwere in late December and does the double prep for the playoffs and for whatever team might choose him as a coach. 

CEOs at corporations have succession plans.  These are often well known in advance.

Jim Harbaugh should have a succession plan in advance with Sherrone Moore as his successor.