Pete Thamel considers potential Sherrone Moore penalty in NCAA’s Connor Stalions case.
The Michigan Wolverines and Connor Stalions case is once again heating up as Stalions showed up at an NCAA Infractions hearing. That’s led to further concerns about what the future may hold as it relates to a penalty against head coach Sherrone Moore.
Pete Thamel dove in depth into the situation on the College GameDay Podcast. There, he explained that Michigan and the NCAA are in what could be considered a kind of negotiation over Moore, exemplified by the two-game suspension the school self-imposed on Moore.
We’ll start with Moore,” Pete Thamel said. “The two games self-imposed. When you’re negotiating, you don’t do too much. Clearly, that’s a signal from the other side that the NCAA/committee seems like they think he should be suspended for more, and it’s a negotiation. They’re going to meet in the middle.”
Under Moore’s suspension, he would miss Week 3 and Week 4 of the 2025 season. That would extend beyond the games and into practice, seemingly making the suspension harsher as Michigan looks to negotiate and show they’re serious about the punishment.
“So, the most important thing that I don’t think has been talked about a lot with Moore’s potential suspension is he would also have to miss practice those two weeks. I’ve talked to a couple of coaches about this… if you said, ‘Hey, you can coach practice all week and not coach the game or coach the game and not practice all week,’ they would clearly coach practice all week because that’s when you’re putting everything in. The game is just the calling of the plays. It’s still important to coach the game, but given the choice between the two,” Thamel said.
