It’s a day ending in ‘Y’, so of course, former ESPN analyst Jemele Hill said something weapons-grade stupid about race and sports. This time, it involves the firing of former Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore.
Moore was fired last week after the university uncovered credible evidence of an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. Hours later, he was arrested on an assault investigation at a home, shocking the sports world. It seems the staffer, whose name has surfaced on social media, was the target.
Hill responded on social media, cautioning against viewing Moore’s dismissal—alongside those of Black figures like Mel Tucker and Ime Udoka—as evidence of a broader problem with Black male coaches. Which nobody has done to date. It’s an individual situation involving an obviously emotionally unwell human being in Moore.
Jemele, though, is a one-trick pony, so she has to try to race-bait her followers on every topic. She didn’t let them down.
“Though I think Sherrone Moore is a cornball, before we start painting his firing, Mel Tucker’s and Ime Udoka’s as some kind of indictment of black male coaches, let me remind you of the following names: Hugh Freeze, Bobby Petrino, Rick Pitino, Mike Price, among others,” she wrote in a post on Threads on Thursday.
“The difference is in who gets a second chance to be a head coach. And you can guess who usually gets another chance.”
Analyzing Jemele Hill
There’s nothing new here. This is what Jemele Hill does. Every black player or coach is a victim, and every white player or coach gets treated with kid gloves.
In her mind, if Moore never gets hired again in college football when other white coaches got second chances, it’s proof of racism. Never mind the glaring differences in the cases involving those she mentioned.
The several white coaches she mentions, such as Freeze, Petrino, Pitino, and Price, faced scandals involving affairs or misconduct but later received second chances in coaching. It’s true.
But which of them was accused of breaking into the home of their mistress, grabbing knives and scissors, and threatening to kill themselves in front of her?
That’d be Sherrone. Allegedly.
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Sherrone Moore’s troubles
The former Michigan coach is facing some pretty stiff penalties after his unhinged actions.
Moore is facing one felony count of home invasion in the third degree, along with misdemeanor charges of stalking and breaking and entering. The former felony charge carries up to five years in prison and/or a $2,000 penalty. The stalking charge could lead to an additional year and/or a $1,000 penalty and up to five years of probation, while the breaking-and-entering count carries a 90-day and/or $500 penalty.
A potential six years in prison. The guy had already helped drag the Michigan program through the mud for his involvement in the sign-stealing scandal.
But his struggles with getting back into coaching will be because of his skin color … or something.
Jemele Hill hasn’t met a sports story that she can’t interject some racist viewpoint into yet. At least that we’re aware of.
Whether it’s referring to former President Donald Trump as “a white supremacist”, suggesting fans of the Dallas Cowboys boycott the team’s sponsors in retaliation for Jerry Jones’ not allowing players to kneel during the national anthem, or implying that “rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim” because their rivalry with the Detroit Pistons was in part “about race,” Hill is not one to remain silent on the matter.
But then, the most ignorant amongst sports commentators are most often the loudest.