Former Michigan staffer Paige Shiver mentioned that different Wolverines coaches have been conscious of her relationship with former soccer head coach Sherrone Moore and that the 2 had been collectively for years.
In an interview with “Good Morning America,” Shiver mentioned she was tasked with emotionally supporting Moore within the office.
She described Moore throughout this time as emotionally depending on her, a relationship she mentioned the division inspired.
She mentioned she was typically advised by senior coaches to console Moore “to calm him down” when he was upset, typically throughout sport halftimes. She mentioned she went alongside with it as a result of she feared for her job safety. “No one cared about my feelings. They wanted to use me to help him so that they could get through the season,” she mentioned.
Moore was sentenced to 18 months probation earlier this month for going to Shiver’s home after he was fired by the college for trigger in December as a result of of their relationship. After the 2 had initially denied they have been collectively, Shiver advised investigators that she and Moore had been in a relationship.
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After athletic director Warde Manuel fired Moore, the coach went to Shiver’s home, the place he allegedly threatened to take his personal life and blamed Shiver for what had taken place. The probation sentence got here after he pled no contest to misdemeanor malicious use of a telecommunications system involving a home relationship and misdemeanor trespassing as half of a plea deal with prosecutors.
Shiver mentioned that her relationship with Moore started in January of 2022 whereas he was an assistant coach. Months later, she mentioned that she discovered she was pregnant with Moore’s baby. But she had an abortion on the recommendation of medical counsel. Shiver had been beforehand identified with Pompe Disease, a genetic glycogen storage dysfunction.
In the interview, Shiver mentioned that Moore knew about her choice to have an abortion.
“Multiple doctors and experts told me that it wouldn’t be right or healthy for me to keep the baby,” a tearful Shiver mentioned, who nodded and mentioned “yeah” when she was requested if she needed to maintain the infant.
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“[Moore] said ‘you had to do what’s right for your body.’”
During Moore’s sentencing, Judge Cedric Simpson praised Moore’s spouse Kelli and talked concerning the “incredible burden” she had been saddled with. Kelli Moore was in attendance in the course of the sentencing. She and Moore have been married since 2015 and have three youngsters collectively.
In an interview with the Detroit News after Moore’s sentencing, Manuel mentioned that he felt “betrayed” by Moore.
“I felt betrayed,” Manuel mentioned when requested how he felt concerning the revelation that Moore was having an affair with Shiver. “It’s the best word that I can use. I felt hurt for all the staff and the student-athletes and the university, because it’s something that I had talked about, as it related to the expectations of our employees in athletics and for the university. I’ve talked about it at all-staff meetings, off of the Martin Philbert [former UM provost fired for sexual misconduct], off of the Mark Schlissel [former UM president fired for having an inappropriate relationship with a staff member] situations, and that this was not going to be tolerated by me or the university, and I thought I was very clear about my expectations and about the outcomes if something like that would happen.
“I had known Sherrone since he got here (2018 when he was hired as an assistant coach), believed in him as a leader, believed that my staff is doing things the right way, and I felt hurt, and I felt betrayed by it. It was personal, but it was also, I want to emphasize, for so many people that were affected by it. And it’s hard as a leader to have to enforce discipline on people that you care about and that you believe in, but it has to be done. There are a lot of people who claim to be callous, who say, ‘Oh, you should have fired him when the rumor was there.’ But you can’t just fire people on rumors with no evidence. So when the evidence was presented, it was a sense of betrayal and hurt for everybody who was going to be involved with a decision. Players, coaches, their families. Everybody.”
Moore served as Michigan’s offensive coordinator for 3 seasons earlier than taking on as head coach following Jim Harbaugh’s departure to the Los Angeles Chargers after the Wolverines gained the College Football Playoff in January of 2024.
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Michigan was 8-5 in the course of the 2024 season and went 9-3 in 2025 earlier than Moore was fired. He served a two-game suspension in the course of the 2025 season for his position within the Connor Stalions’ advance-scouting scheme to decipher opponents’ indicators.
The college started investigating Moore’s relationship with Shiver in the course of the 2025 season, however the two had denied they have been collectively till she got here ahead.
After Moore’s firing, Michigan said that it would be investigating the culture of the athletic department amid its myriad scandals. His termination got here after former co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss was federally indicted for allegedly hacking into the net accounts of feminine faculty athletes throughout the nation, the quite a few NCAA infractions throughout Harbaugh’s tenure and the tumultuous Juwan Howard period for the lads’s basketball program.