Michigan basketball coach Dusty May was asked at his weekly press conference about the Sherrone Moore scandal with the football program.
Michigan basketball coach Dusty May held his weekly press conference Monday, Dec. 15 in Ann Arbor, when a reporter turned the subject from the No. 1-ranked team in the nation to some outside topics.
The topic was football, namely the scandal involving former coach Sherrone Moore. An investigation found "credible evidence" to suggest Moore had a lengthy relationship with another staffer inside the football program. Moore later admitted this, court records obtained by the Free Press showed, as did the staffer who later became a victim.
Moore was arrested the same day he was fired, Wednesday, and stayed in Washtenaw County Jail for two nights before he was arraigned on Friday. According to the prosecution, he went to the woman's house, broke in, grabbed butter knives and kitchen scissors from a drawer and threatened his own life.
May, he was saddened to see what happened.
"The football stuff, there's some, obviously, some poor decisions made across the board," May said. "It is what it is. Everyone involved is a human being, and every decision impacts other human beings. And so I just pray for families that are impacted, and their lives and their children (that) are impacted.
"I don't really have anything other than to say that."
There were also multiple shootings that made headlines over the weekend, including mass shootings at Brown University and one in Australia that targeted the Jewish community.
A shooting at Stewartville (Minnesota) High School, where a student was shot before the suspect died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, is where Will Tschetter, a fifth-year senior, graduated from.
"Obviously the shootings impacted one of our players, and he was shook up," May said,. "And, man, I felt bad that we were so focused on beating Maryland, because it's such a it's such a tough, tough thing whenever you know that happens, and it just seems to be happening more frequently."
Michigan defeated Maryland 101-83 on Saturday ngiht, and Tschetter spoke with reporters afterward. He said it's one of those things that you never think can hit so close to home and when it does “actually does affect the people that you know, that you grew up with, it just hits that much deeper.”
May said he almost felt guilty he and the coaching staff had to pour so much time and effort into beating Maryland and continuing the season as normal, but it's part of the job. Another part of the job, is communicating with players and teaching life lessons.
"Even the stuff across campus, we're trying to, just like as parents, we're trying to help develop independent thinkers and people that look at all issues from not only their own set of glasses, but also the glasses from everyone else around," May said. "So yeah, we've talked about all this stuff. We have very open, honest, transparent conversations in our locker room. And I think when you have a group that loves each other and a staff that loves our players as much as we do, we want them to always be thinking short term and long term.
"If we just all tried to be better human beings and better world civilians and whatnot, I think we'd all have a much greater impact."
Tony Garcia is the Wolverines beat writer for the Detroit Free Press. Email him at [email protected] and follow him on X at @RealTonyGarcia.
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