EX-Michigan Football Coach Sherrone Moore Takes Plea Deal

ANN ARBOR, MI — Former Michigan Wolverines football coach Sherrone Moore pleaded no contest Friday to two misdemeanor charges for an incident involving a former staffer with whom he had a relationship.

Moore pleaded no contest to malicious use of a telecommunications device involving a domestic relationship and trespassing.

In exchange for the plea, prosecutors dismissed charges of third-degree home invasion, stalking and breaking and entering.

He will be sentenced on April 14. He faces up to six months in prison for the malicious use of a telecommunications device and up to 30 days in jail for trespassing.

On Dec. 10, the University of Michigan fired the 39-year-old coach for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a staff member, which the university said "constitutes a clear violation of university policy."

Less than an hour later, Moore was arrested after officers responded to a home in the 3000 block of Ann Arbor Saline Road in Pittsfield Township for a report of an assault.

Prosecutors said Moore broke into the former staffer's apartment and blamed her for losing his job. They said he grabbed butter knives and kitchen scissors and threatened to kill himself.

Prosecutors said the two had been involved in an intimate relationship "for a number of years."

Kyle Whittingham, who coached Utah for two decades, is the new coach at Michigan.