Fox Sports Joel Klatt on Michigan football hiring Sherrone Moore

There’s been a changing of the guard in Ann Arbor. Jim Harbaugh returned to the NFL, and Michigan football hired offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore as his replacement.

And if nothing else, Moore has one big fan in his corner: Fox Sports color commentator Joel Klatt.

Though Moore has big shoes to fill, Klatt believes the Wolverines made the right move, namely because of what he was able to do in the four games he coached for the maize and blue in 2023 when Harbaugh was suspended.

“Sherrone Moore is announced as the new head coach for the Michigan Wolverines. This was a no-brainer,” Klatt said. “That’s my first thought overall is that this is exactly what should happen and what was going to happen. And they superseded that law about the seven days and they’ve done that before. That’s why it was so surprising when that was a topic after Jim Harbaugh left for the Chargers, but they get it done. And Sherrone Moore is the new head coach. Everybody knew this was going to happen. You don’t do what he was able to do this year as the acting head coach and some of their biggest games and not get this job in particular with the culture that they’ve built. They built something so special at Michigan as the national champions, right? I mean, we didn’t think that was going to happen really, did we? And yet it did happen. And so you want to continue that. Jim Harbaugh has built something that has legs and is sustainable. And now that sustained effort is going to be handed to Sherrone Moore.”

Though there are pundits who exclaim Michigan should have perhaps done more of a national search, Klatt disagrees, saying this move the same as hiring Ryan Day was for Ohio State or hiring Lincoln Riley was for Oklahoma.

“So he’s going to get that five-year deal. He’s going to start about five and a half million. That’s absolutely in line with where he probably should be,” Klatt said. “It’s…