The Josh Innes Show - Another Dumb Opinion Piece About Sherrone Moore

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

It's truly remarkable how folks use Sherrone Moore as an example of how black coaches don't get second chances. I made the mistake of reading a USA Today story about this... It's truly mind numbing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, so I'm looking at USA today, which you could argue is my first mistake, but I'm looking at USA today. And the headline reads, the Sharon Moore scandal and race. It's going to get worse. So I have no, I mean, I haven't read the story because I never read these stories before I talk about them because I want to give you the legitimate reaction to them as I read them because I don't want to have any sort of like fake, you know, whatever. but um again the guy fucked around on his wife who cares the guy screwed around with the girl in the office she can't do that they probably used it as an excuse to get rid of him because he's not a very good coach he then proceeded to get himself arrested for breaking into home girls house like please like the idea that this is a racial thing like I don't know what we're doing

I mean I know what we're doing because it's easy and lazy and I get it but what What the fuck? All right, let's do this. Let's play a couple commercials, and I'm going to read some of this story. We're going to see where this thing goes. All right, here we go. The two most powerful leagues in college football began the 2025 season with a combined four blackhead coaches out of 34 schools from coast to coast. There were no black head coaches in the Southeastern Conference.

In the Big Ten, there were four, including Sharon Moore, the first blackhead coach in Mississippi. Michigan history. He's also the first head coach in Michigan history, I think, to get fired for breaking into his mistress's house and threatening to kill her with a butter knife and then kill himself. But that's a detail that I'm sure will be ignored here and glossed over for the more important factor, which is he's black. Four months later, only one remains. That's Mike Loxley at Maryland. The others were terminated, most notably more, who fell from grace in the kind of scandal that can unfairly affect perceptions of other black coaches in ways that don't affect white coaches after similar scandals, according to experts contacted by USA Today.

That is bullshit. That is 100% stone cold bullshit. Because when you say you just operate on the basis of race, which is what we are doing in this example here, when we say it unfairly affects the perceptions of other black coaches in ways that don't affect white coaches after similar scandals, you are specifically making this about race. and it is bullshit and you know it is bullshit because you are ignoring all the other factors involved in this. That's all. I know we'll go back. I'm sure this story because the guy's basically rewriting the same story that's been written before. It's going to be, what about how Bobby Petrina?

Bobby Petrino fucked around on his lady with a chick that worked for him. He got fired for it. Bobby Petrino was also a super successful football coach who got another opportunity first having to coach it like Western Kentucky. and then work his way back up, okay? He didn't go to jail. If Sharon Moore didn't go to jail, and Sharon Moore had the skins on the wall that Bobby Petrino has,

then that would be a different case. Oh, what about Rick Petino? Rick Petino was extorted by somebody. He fucked some chick for 10 seconds on the floor of an Italian restaurant, and he was extort. I still don't understand how you end up fucking somebody

in an Italian restaurant. It's pretty fucking wild. But still, he was extorted. And he's maybe, the greatest college basketball coach ever, certainly one of them. So that's the difference. That's the thing you choose to ignore. This is a guy that got into a sex scandal, then got arrested like a year into the job.

They are not the same. They are not apples to apples. And the fact that these stories, like if that's not your, the fact that people ignore these things and just treat it as a, well, the black coach is never going to get a chance again is such a bullshit take. And they know it's a bullshit take. And they know it's a lazy take. quote, these black coaches are often evaluated collectively, while white coaches, our peers are evaluated individually, said San Jose State Head Coach Fitzhill, who is black, thank you.

That's the difference. And that's because when you look at minorities, you group minorities. That's just a rational cognitive process. Well, to be fair, Fitz, you know, who also groups the races in everything? Black people, Asian. Everybody does. My point is, like, you're making it sound like, oh, all we do is we lump black people in a group together. You know who lumps black people in a group together?

Black people in everything. It's black versus white. Stand up comedy. Oh, let me tell you the difference between black and white people, right? Like, well, you want to see what a brother would have done here? That's all you do. So, of course, people judge people differently because that's the perception that's created by a lot of times, black folk. that doesn't make it fair said Hill after another round of firings and hirings in college football

USA Today's sports updated its historical data on black head coach they have a thing and gathered additional context to put the fallout from Moore's firing into perspective from the standpoint of race this picture paints it isn't exactly the picture it paints isn't exactly if you are using Sharon Moore as an example of why black dudes aren't getting head coaching jobs and trying to compare it based on race and everything else. This is a fool's errand and it's lazy and it's hacky and it's terrible. But okay, fine, that's what we're going to do here. What it means and why

it may get worse. The data compiled by USA Today's sports shows black coaches still rarely get second chances after failures, primarily because they seldom get first chances. There are only 14 black head coaches out of 136 schools in the football bowl subdivision where nearly half the players are black.

That's down from 17 out of 120 major college football programs in 2011. This is the boring shit that it always is. I knew this. I knew this was going to be the same boring, regurgitated bullshit, all the stats. I knew it. Meanwhile, the SEC hasn't had a non-interim blackhead coach since 2020. Out of 34 coaches in the Big Ten in the SEC, 33 are white and one is black. In the bigger picture, all of this comes against the backdrop of colleges living in fear of the Trump administration's crackdown on efforts to improve diversity, equity, and

inclusion. Quote, I'm afraid that in the current climate where DEI and efforts along those lines have been really sidelined in a major way, this is going to get worse, not better, said Richard Lapchick, founder of the Institute for Sport and Social Justice. Holy shit, that's a thing. Short list of black coaches with second chances versus white coaches. Okay, let's see. Tyrone Willingham, Mike Loxley, Kevin Sumlin, Carl Dorell, James Franklin, who was recently

hired at Virginia Tech. Okay, cool. Outside of the Power 4 leagues, only three black head coaches in FBS history have gotten second chances after firings at FBS coaches, Charlie Strong, Willie Taggart, and Derek Mason. Also, fun fact about those guys, they weren't good fucking coaches. They were good somewhere, got fired somewhere that was tougher, and then that's that. 17 current whitehead coaches in the FBS are on their second or third chance after previously getting fired. and an FBS coach. New LSU coach Lane Kiffin, who is white, thanks,

even was considered the hottest candidate on the market after previously being fired as a head coach of Southern California and the Raiders. That is certainly a misleading. I mean, that might be the most misleading piece of shit I've ever read. So just make sure I read this right. New LSU coach Lane Kiffin, who is white, even was considered the hottest candidate on the market after previously being fired as head coach in Southern California and the NFL's Oakland Raiders.

That is truly a remarkably misleading bullshit thing to say. And I don't know that I'm going to continue reading this story because it's so misguided and so wrong and so stupid that it's not worth the time. Yes, Lane Kiffin was considered the hottest name on the market. What you ignored in your little statement there is that he's also responsible for, for the team that's in the college football playoff right now. And he spent six years at Ole Miss building that to a pretty good football program. And before that, when he got fired at all these places, had to go back and be a coordinator again, and then take a job at FAU before getting the opportunity to coach at Ole Miss,

which was a rundown program when he got there, not rundown, but not great, and turned it into pretty much a power. Please inform me of the last time that Willie Taggart or Derek Mason built a powerhouse anywhere. Please, I'll wait. But no, you can't do that because the details don't matter. The only thing that matters is the skin color. White coaches survive scandals, too. Several white head coaches have survived getting arrested or hiding an extramarital affair with a staff member to get second chances as head coaches.

But some don't think more will get that same opportunity despite leading Michigan to a nine and three record. I like how that's a dick swinging move. The team that won the national championship the year before, he inherits them. They go nine and three, and that's our big move. This guy went nine and three. This is truly pathetic. Will Moore get the same second chances as his white counterparts? As Sandy Young, CEO of Jay Walker Communications,

and today's society in which race is othered and simplified as persons of color, bad and white people good, more may have blown his time. I can't. I can't. This is so fucking pathetic. This is so sad and so pathetic. Let me click on the link they offer of the coaches getting arrested or hiding an extramarital affair with a staff member than getting another job.

Let's see what we got here. Oh, this goes back to that story we made fun of a couple weeks ago, I think. So the examples, again, they give Jim Harbaugh, okay, fine, whatever. Dave Bliss, the Mel Tucker scandal. Mel Tucker sexually assault. Like, I like how we don't give a shit about sexual assault when it's a black guy that may not get another job because of it, right? Like, oh, it's not a big deal.

Like, other coaches have done all this shit before. I'm also looking for the other coaches who've been arrested in all of this. That was the example. Other coaches who've been arrested and given other opportunities. Who are these coaches who have been arrested and given other opportunities? There's Bobby Petrino they offer. He didn't get arrested. Rick Petino didn't get arrested.

Hugh Fries didn't get arrested. Art Bryles, last time I checked, didn't get arrested. Enlighten me. Where are the coaches? And by the way, you talk about like, here's the problem. Here's the problem you'd run into. So they offer the Art Bryles. So Art Bryles ended up, I think, having to work at some shitty school again, right?

Like he worked at some small school just to coach. So what would happen then if Sharon Moore, who's been the coach at Michigan, like I can paint and point you in every direction that these stories are going to go when something happens. So let's say Sharon Moore did get another opportunity to coach. And that other opportunity was at Western, Eastern, South Carolina. The argument would be, this guy coached at Michigan and the brother can't get a job at a bigger school than this. shit, it's never good enough. And the arguments will always be made the other way and like, oh, why, you got this?

Like, let's look at Art Bryles really quick. I'm intrigued because you bring up Art Bryles. So, Art Bryles, where did Art Bryles end up coaching after Baylor? Let's see his timeline after Baylor. Here's Art Bryles. It gets fired in 2015. Here's where Art Bryles is coached. The Italian fucking football league.

He's coaching in. Florence, Italy, where, by the way, he's the two-time Italian bowl champion. So we use Art Bryles as an example. So I'm fairly certain if Sharon Moore wants to go coach in fucking Guam, then Sharon Moore can probably get a job somewhere. Like, to use Art Bryles as comical. Art Bryles, coaches at Baylor, gets whacked at Baylor. After going 11 and 2, 11 and 2, 10, and 3, they fire him because of all their shit.

he ends up coaching as a head coach in the Italian football league. And then he ends up coaching in high school. I think at one point he coached in high school. Oh, sorry. My bad. Last year, just got a new job as the coach at Eastern New Mexico. He's now the coach of the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds. There you go.

So let me ask you this. If Sharon Moore, who big picture has done Dick as a head coach, went nine and three in a season at Michigan, fucked his assistant, threatened to kill her allegedly, went to jail for five minutes. Cool. So let's say that Sharon Moore gets offered a job at Eastern New Mexico University after 10 years of not coaching at a major college. Would people be happy about that? No. My biggest issue with these kind of stories is they ignore very important details and only focus on

one detail. And the detail is black guy got fired and white guy got fired. Black guy got fired for doing something bad. White guy got fired for doing something bad. And that's the only details. It should be equal or apples to apples and not everything is apples to apples. Some people are just more important than others. Some people are more accomplished than others. Some people are more successful than others. This isn't hard. But it's the dishonesty of these media people because they are inherently dishonest, cunty people. And the people they talk to are all part of these, like,

coalitions and the coalitions for black coaches who've been arrested and fucked around on their wives, but need to get second chances of eastern Washington. All these coalitions and all this bullshit. It's all bullshit. Every ounce of it is bullshit. And they know it's bullshit. Like, am I telling you that there's a lot more white guys getting jobs

with white people, but black guys, sure. But to compare, like, the scandals of, these people and just and and and dumbing it down to well white people get second chances and black guys don't because of these scandals is bullshit why don't black coaches get second chances after scandals well the scandal matters i don't know it's just it's it's a ridiculous thing like the problem i have with these kind of stories is what you end up with is you get guys who do legitimately shitty things and they're thrown into the same category as everybody else and they're used as why are these guys not getting these jobs?

It's so lazy. And then I let myself take the bait. I take the bait. I sit there. I see the story. I know I'm going to believe the story's bullshit. I know I'm going to mock the story. I know it's wrong.

And I'm like, I'm going to read it anyway because I'm an addict. I'm addicted to reading shit that I think is stupid and then yelling about the shit I think is stupid. I have a problem. But like, do you really believe that there are schools that are not hiring black coaches because Sharon Moore went to jail or Mel Tucker sexually assaulted his assistant or the gal on the phone?

Do you believe that there are people that are like, well, I was going to hire that black coach, but do you remember when Mel Tucker was jerking off on that phone call? Like, do you think people do that? I just don't. I don't believe if there's a legitimate black candidate and they want to hire the black candidate. Now, if you want to tell me that there are real reasons they're not hiring them

and that there's some discrepancies or whatever, fine. But if your argument is, well, We were going to hire Bill Smith, who's a black coach, or we were going to hire Jim Smithers, who's the white coach. But we're going to hire the white coach, because did you remember that time that Mel Tucker jerked off on the phone? We can't hire a black man to do that. We can't have black guys here because all they will do is jerk off on the phone, and we can't afford that. It's such bullshit, and they know it's bullshit, but they have to spew this bullshit because otherwise most of these people wouldn't have an existence. What existence do you have if you are, let's see, let's find this guy's.

name again. If you are, well, I've scrolled so far down this ridiculous story, but like these guys who are the heads of these coalitions for equity and black coaching hires and everything else, if you don't have drama, then you don't have an existence. If you don't have an oppressed group, you don't have an existence. So you have to keep a group oppressed and keep coming up with bullshit. And that's what you end up with in these stories. We ignore whether or not these guys were actually good coaches are successful. We ignore if the guys who got second chances were super successful guys. We ignore how long it took them to get a second chance. We ignore how many shitty jobs they had to take to get another head coaching job. We ignore all of that. And all we look at is black white. And then

those are the same people that go, well, all we've done now is just dumbed it down. White people, good, black people, bad. You're the one doing that. Anyway, more to come.