Ex-Michigan Coach Avoids Jail Time After Breaking Into Former Assistant’s Home and Threatening Her With Knives

A month after entering a no-contest plea to two misdemeanors, former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore has been sentenced to 18 months of probation and ordered to pay more than $1,000 in fines.

The 40-year-old is prohibited from using drugs or alcohol, possessing firearms, or contacting his former assistant Paige Shiver. On April 14, 14A District Judge J. Cedric Simpson also ordered Moore to continue his mental health treatment.

The ex-Michigan coach allegedly had an “inappropriate relationship” with Shiver, 32, according to the University of Michigan, which fired Moore in December 2025.

Initially, Moore faced up to six months in prison after pleading no contest to charges including malicious use of a telecommunications device and trespass.

“We have addressed this case in court with dignity and respect for all involved,” Moore’s attorney Ellen Michaels told People in a statement. “The resolution reflects the evidence and the law.”

“This outcome is not the result of favoritism or public profile—it is the result of a careful legal process, thorough investigation, and advocacy grounded in the facts,” the attorney added.

“I don’t believe, when I look at the entirety of this situation, that incarceration should be appropriate,” Judge Simpson said during the sentencing in Washtenaw County Court, ESPN reported. “I warn you, Mr. Moore, should there be a violation, all bets are off. I don’t like sending people to jail, but I don’t have a problem doing it.”

“Frankly, Mr. Moore, you had no right to do what you did,” Judge Simpson said of the alleged incident that occurred at the victim’s home. “I know she was placed in fear. It was a traumatic experience for you. It was certainly a traumatic experience for her, but you had no right to spread your pain to her.”

Moore was also charged with felony home invasion that carried a five-year prison sentence if convicted, but the judge dismissed it as part of the plea deal.

“The person who is saving you from the full wrath of this court is the person who you betrayed,” Judge Simpson said in reference to the coach’s wife Kelli, according to ESPN.

“When all of the circumstances are happening to her, and she is absorbing them in real time, she not once loses her focus, not once bats an eye to doubt you, not once wants something terrible to happen to you.”

“As I listened to the terror in her voice that day, I don’t think there would be anybody in the world who would have blamed her from saying, ‘I am done here,’” the judge added.

“This is a man who is not defined by this moment but how he has responded to it,” Moore’s attorney Ellen Michaels said in court.

Shiver previously alleged Moore manipulated, harassed and exploited her over the years. In a statement to People, she said the sentence “does not reflect the harm done to me.”

“He broke into my apartment, crying, yelling, enraged and came at me with knives. I was threatened, and I feared for my life,” she said.

Shiver’s legal team, Action Injury Law Group, claimed Moore “held enormous power over her professional life as the head football coach of one of the nation’s most prominent college football programs” in a March 6 statement.

“The power imbalance between a powerful head coach and a subordinate employee created an environment where our client felt pressured, intimidated, and unable to escape conduct that should never occur in any workplace—let alone at a public university,” the statement continued.

Moore was also accused of driving to the victim’s home, grabbing butter knives and threatening suicide. He was arraigned and charged with third-degree home invasion, stalking and unlawful entry, which were dismissed as part of the plea deal.