Sherrone Moore scandal is a possible domino in Titans coaching search connected to Michigan

How the firing of Sherrone Moore impacts the Titans coaching search.

Easton Freeze — Tennessee Titans Beat Writer
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This week we all watched one of the most bizarre, sad scandals in recent football memory play out with Sherrone Moore and the Michigan Wolverines. The now ex-head coach of Michigan was fired for cause and later arrested on December 10th, a story revolving around his romantic involvement with his assistant in the football program. Click here for all the latest on one of the wildest stories of the year.

Meanwhile, away from the personal scandal unfolding, Michigan is a program once again tainted by coaching chaos and now needs a new head coach miserably late in the process. We literally started and completed an entire news cycle on another blue blood being left without a seat on the coaching carousel in Penn State. And now Michigan enters the fray? Good luck!

So what does this have to do with the Tennessee Titans? Well, one of the top potential candidates for their head coaching opening is suddenly on the board to get the Michigan job. And even if they don’t, at what point do all of those involved with Michigan coaching have a stink on them?

Jesse Minter could land in Michigan instead of Tennessee

One of the hottest young names this coaching cycle is Los Angeles Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter. He followed Jim Harbaugh out west from Michigan to remain his defensive coordinator, after leading the defense in Ann Arbor from 2022-2023.

His defense at Michigan was fantastic, the top ranked unit in 2023 which led to a National Championship. It’s unclear whether Michigan AD Warde Manuel wants to sever all ties to the Harbaugh regime after this nightmare with Moore (Harbaugh’s former OC), but his options are awfully limited at this point. You could do a whole lot worse than Minter, who is high on the list of betting odds to land the Big Ten job. He’s currently serving a show-cause from the NCAA stemming from recruiting violations during his time at Michigan, but that expires before next season.

Should he land the job, the Titans would be down a serious candidate for their own search. Though this whole mess raises another question: could Chad Brinker and Mike Borgonzi be reaching a point where they’re turned off by the stink on this old Michigan staff after all that’s happened? It’s worth considering. Tennessee has been a clown show of their own too often over the past half decade, and I could see them being wary of hiring a new coach who has been in headlines for unsavory reasons recently.

But frankly, I’m not sure that I’d care. Minter himself was never directly proven to be involved in rule breaking. Was he aware of it? I’m sure he was. But the rules that were broken at the college level by his colleagues aren’t the kinds of things you have to worry about in the NFL. He’s a darn good coach, and if he end up being a great interview, I don’t think I would let it stop me from hiring him.

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