Michigan Football: Sherrone Moore as OC will be addition by subtraction

Michigan football announced its coaching staff on Friday and having Sherrone Moore as the lone offensive coordinator will be a positive move. 

The Michigan football coaching staff got a slight shakeup this offseason as the Wolverines traded out a couple of assistants for new ones.

Quite possibly the most well-known move was the firing of co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss. He ran into some legal issues surrounding the unauthorized use of email accounts. At any rate, Weiss was fired with cause and replaced by Kirk Campbell.

Campbell was formerly an offensive coordinator for Old Dominion and spent the past two seasons with Michigan football as an offensive analyst.

Campbell was heavily involved in the offensive game planning last season, so things shouldn’t change a lot. However, the play-calling will be different as Sherrone Moore will be the sole offensive coordinator for Michigan football in 2023.

Last season, Weiss supposedly called red-zone plays and was the passing-game coordinator. It seemed at times, that there were too many voices and the red-zone offense wasn’t good as we saw in the Fiesta Bowl.

Michigan football turned the ball over on downs and fumbled on another goal-to-go opportunity that wound up costing the Wolverines a trip to the national title game.

One OC will be better for Michigan football

It’s probably not fair to lay the blame at the feet of Weiss. But if Michigan was having different guys calling the plays on different parts of the field, that doesn’t make much sense.

I understand the idea behind having co-coordinators and it can work — just look at Michigan on defense. Jesse Minter calls the plays but Steve Clinkscale is the defensive passing game coordinator and still has a huge input.

That’s how it should work next season on offense. Moore will be calling the plays with input from Jim Harbaugh, Campbell, and others, but for the most part, it needs to be Moore’s show.

Moore has more than proven up to the task. The offense didn’t skip a beat in his first full season as the offensive coordinator and now that there isn’t a co-OC attached, it should make the Michigan football offense even better.

Sherrone Moore is one of the best young minds in the business and as far as I’m concerned, the more input he has the better. So while Weiss is a really smart coach, I have a feeling the offense will run better with one offensive coordinator calling the shots.