EDITORS' CORNER
OPINION
University of Michigan’s head football coach Sherrone Moore is accused of having an affair with a staffer. The married father of three is also reportedly suffering from a mental health breakdown and is facing criminal charges stemming from an assault allegation soon after his termination.
But the real victims in the situation are other black coaches, according to professional race hustler Jemele Hill.
“Though I think Sherrone Moore is a cornball, before we start painting his firing, Mel Tucker’s and Ime Udoka’s as some kind of indictment of Black male coaches, let me remind you of the following names: Hugh Freeze, Bobby Petrino, Rick Pitino, Mike Price, among others,” Hill wrote on Threads. “The difference is in who gets a second chance to be a head coach. And you can guess who usually gets another chance.”
For a little background: “cornball” is a racial slur black people use against other black people to accuse them of acting white. Hill’s former ESPN colleague Rob Parker called quarterback Robert Griffin III a “cornball brother” because he had a white fiancé. Moore’s wife is also white.
Hill is referencing other white coaches who had scandals, either sexual or of another nature. The implication being that white coaches are quickly able to find new jobs after scandals, while black coaches are not.
However, this history is not really truthful, because the Boston Celtics suspended Udoka in Sep. 2022 due to a non-consensual affair and by April the following year, he lined up a new head coaching job with the Houston Rockets, where he remains to this day.
The implication that all college football teams will be wary of hiring black coaches because one of them had an affair rests on flimsy evidence. As of March, there were 11 black NBA head coaches, including Udoka. NBA teams did not stop hiring black head coaches because one of them had an affair – they didn’t even stop hiring the one who had an affair.
ESPN commentator Ryan Clark also made the suggestion that Moore failed other black coaches. “If you’re Sherrone Moore, who was the first African American head coach at the University of Michigan, there’s also a community of coaches that would love to follow in your footsteps that will be partly judged because of your actions,” Clark said. “He does have to own that.”
Hill wants to find racism in the situation because that is her beat.
Moore isn’t the victim of racism, but rather a series of bad choices and a refusal to control his impulses. That should raise some questions about if he should be leading and mentoring young college students.
He and others would do well to heed the marriage advice of Daily Wire commentator and friend of The College Fix, Andrew Klavan: “Don’t sleep with other people.”
