Michigan's reported top option to replace Jim Harbaugh has connection to Vols' Josh Heupel
On Wednesday evening, news broke that Jim Harbaugh is leaving Michigan to become the new head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. Harbaugh's departure from Ann Arbor comes just weeks after he led the Wolverines to their first national championship since 1997. According to ESPN's Chris Low, Michigan offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore, who went 4-0 […]
On Wednesday evening, news broke that Jim Harbaugh is leaving Michigan to become the new head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers.
Harbaugh's departure from Ann Arbor comes just weeks after he led the Wolverines to their first national championship since 1997.
According to ESPN's Chris Low, Michigan offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore, who went 4-0 as the acting head coach this season while Harbaugh was suspended, is considered the top option to become the Wolverines' new head coach.
Moore, who has been on staff at Michigan since 2018, has a unique connection to Tennessee Vols head coach Josh Heupel and offensive coordinator Joey Halzle.
In late 2005, Moore and Halzle both transferred from the junior college ranks to Oklahoma, where they were teammates for a couple of seasons.
(Moore was an offensive lineman for the Sooners.)
Heupel, who led Oklahoma to a national championship as the program's starting quarterback in 2000, returned to Norman for the 2006 season to serve as the Sooners' quarterbacks coach under Bob Stoops.
Current Mississippi State head coach Jeff Lebby was a student assistant on that 2006 Oklahoma team as well. That's quite a group of talented coaches that were together in Norman in the mid 2000s.
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