There have been other Wednesdays in Sherrone Moore's life, a lot of them, but yesterday had to be an all-timer. And not in a Best-Actor-Oscar, I-just-hit-the-Powerball kind of way.
First, the University of Michigan fired Moore as its head football coach, not for lack of success on the field -- Moore guided the Wolverines to a 9-3 record this year with a true freshman quarterback -- but for an "inappropriate relationship" with a staffer.
Then, he wound up in the county jail after being arrested as a suspect in an assault.
That's a full day. And, again, not in a good way.
The "inappropriate relationship" apparently involved Moore's extramarital affair with a female staff member who, rumor has it, subsequently became pregnant. At about the same time, rumor also has it, Moore doubled her salary -- kind of like Scrooge did for Bob Cratchit at the end of "A Christmas Carol," except for less noble reasons.
Rumors being what they are, this may or may not be true. You can't believe everything you read on the internet, after all, no matter how much bedrock faith some people have in the truthiness of social "media".
The fact that Moore wound up in jail yesterday, however, is verifiable. Absent additional details, it's unclear whether the alleged assault that landed him there was in some way connected to the circumstances of his firing.
And while there is always the tendency -- amplified, again, by that demon social "media" -- to make light of the fall of public figures, the Blob chooses to refrain in this case (although not, mea culpa, in every case). Whatever bad choices led Sherrone Moore to his very bad day, I'm not going to join in just yet. Not until we know more.
Although "Hail to the Victors" would likely not be the right background music for this tale. Just a thought.
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