Even with coach Jim Harbaugh and several key players off last year's national championship team gone, first-year Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore said Thursday the program's aim this season remains the same.
Jake Trotter covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011 covering college football. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown Journal newspapers. You can follow him on Twitter @Jake_Trotter."We're not going to stray away from the goal of trying to win it all," Moore said during Big Ten media days."When you're at Michigan, that should be your goal every single year.
This has been a year of transition for the Wolverines, winners of the last three Big Ten titles. This offseason, Moore took over for Harbaugh, who left to coach the Los Angeles Chargers after nine years in Michigan. The Wolverines also face the daunting task of replacing 17 of 22 starters from last year, including quarterback J.J. McCarthy, who was the 10th overall pick of the Minnesota Vikings.
One of the key decisions Moore will have to make before the Aug. 31 opener against Fresno State will be naming McCarthy's replacement."The No. 1 thing we're looking for out of any guy that's our starting quarterback is one, that they're a playmaker that they can make plays," Moore said before listing other traits.
Moore, an assistant under Harbaugh since 2018, admitted he's had to learn how to be this head coach on the fly. He said he would continue to lean on Harbaugh for advice, while making the Michigan program his own. "Being blessed enough to be for the last six years has been phenomenal for me," Moore said."For me now, it's putting my own flavor on it, but not changing too much. Because obviously there's a lot of things that worked."
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