“6–7 Months Ago, I Went Through Something Very Similar”: Shannon Sharpe Sympathizes With Sherrone Moore

Sherrone Moore is currently being torn apart on every corner of the internet, and for understandable reasons. Last night, Michigan fired him for cause after investigators found that Moore engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Hours later, reports emerged that he was detained over an alleged assault incident. In the span of a single afternoon, Moore went from leading the Wolverines to being college football’s latest cautionary tale.

But while the football world rushed to condemn and criticise him, Shannon Sharpe did the opposite by offering the fired head coach some empathy.

On the latest edition of Nightcap, the Broncos legend, without sugarcoating the situation, immediately made it clear why he wasn’t going to jump on the bandwagon.

“I think the thing is,” he began, “all the situations that you’ve heard… you never think a situation like this can happen to you, even though you’re doing what you’ve heard about. ‘Nah, this gonna be different. She ain’t like that.’”

Then came the line that made many tune in further to Unc’s point: “Six, seven months ago, I went through something very similar. So I know what that storm is like.”

This reference isn’t vague. The Hall of Fame tight end was sued by a 20-year-old OnlyFans model, accusing him of multiple instances of sexual assault.

This followed a lawsuit that triggered a media circus, public outrage, fan backlash, and an eventual reported settlement of $23 million, far below the $50 million claim but still destructive enough to shake his entire world.

And last but not least, at the height of the chaos, Sharpe was even removed from ESPN programming and forced into months of rebuilding his reputation. That personal collapse is perhaps why his voice and body language carried a more vulnerable and sentimental tone when he described the emotional fallout of scandals like Sherrone Moore’s.

“Unless you’ve been in it, you don’t know what you’d do until you’re in it… Until you’re in that pressure cooker. Until you’re in the eye of the storm,” he said.

Sharpe also explained how, in moments like this, what pains people more than the headlines is the helplessness. “To know, everybody knows your… everything. Everything you worked your entire life for. You feel it like it’s crumbling right before your eyes.”

And then, the harshest part of all: “The only people that’s gonna be there… it’s gonna be a select few.”

Reading his quotes, it might seem like Sharpe was defending Moore’s actions. But he made it clear that he wasn’t excusing the Michigan coach’s behavior. He was simply reminding viewers that every scandal has a human being at the center. A man who wakes up one morning believing he has control, only to realize by evening how quickly life can collapse when private decisions collide with public accountability.

For Sharpe, that realization came the hard way. For Moore, it came last night. So in a way, Sharpe’s empathy stemmed from recognizing a storm he’s already survived.

But from a neutral’s point of view, it’s hard to relate to either Shannon’s or Sherrone’s troubles because, at the end of the day, both bore the results of their actions. As the old adage goes, you reap what you sow…