Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore’s ex-executive assistant said through her lawyers that Moore used his platform to harass her for multiple years, according to the Detroit Free Press on March 9.
The Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network, obtained the first public statement tied to Paige Shiver on March 6. Moore had an affair with his former executive assistant and entered her apartment after being fired by Michigan following the 2025 college football season.
The statement was made after Moore and prosecutors agreed to a deal where he pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors. Shiver’s lawyers called out the university in the statement.
‘This case is about far more than one terrifying incident,’ the statement read from Andrew M. Stroth and Steven A. Hart, two Chicago-based lawyers. ‘It raises urgent and troubling questions about how a powerful figure within a major university athletic program was able to engage in years of inappropriate conduct toward a subordinate without meaningful intervention or oversight.
‘Our client believes strongly that she may not be the only person who experienced inappropriate, coercive, or predatory behavior from this individual.’
Stroth said in an interview on Saturday, March 7, that Shiver hired him and Hart months ago, and they only spoke publicly for the first time due to Moore’s criminal case concluding. They called out ‘systemic failures’ in Michigan’s athletic department.
‘The University of Michigan is one of the most well-regarded institutions in the world, yet they have an athletic department that has a pattern and practice of systemic failures,’ Stroth said. ‘Our pursuit on behalf of Ms. Shiver is to get some level of accountability and justice so this doesn’t happen to other individuals.’
Moore pleaded no contest to ‘malicious use of service provided by telecommunications service provider’ and trespassing on March 6. Prosecutors dropped a felony charge and two other misdemeanors, and Moore, despite facing sentencing on April 14, isn’t expected to face jail time.
Moore was fired from Michigan after two seasons on Dec. 10 following an investigation that found he was having an inappropriate relationship with Shiver. After he was fired, Moore entered her apartment and picked up two butter knives, although he denies assaulting or threatening her.
A Michigan spokesperson confirmed to the Detroit Free Press that Shiver is no longer employed by the university after her contract wasn’t renewed in February.
The 40-year-old coach won a national championship in 2023 as Michigan’s offensive coordinator under Jim Harbaugh, for whom he took over as head coach for the 2024 season. He led the Wolverines to an 8-5 record in 2024 and 9-4 record in 2025.