Michigan alum Amani Toomer explains why Sherrone Moore had to go, declaring ‘nobody is bigger than the team’ as the program faces hard truths.
A former Michigan wideout and longtime Giant weighed in on this week’s major college football scandal.
Days after Michigan fired coach Sherrone Moore for an alleged “inappropriate relationship” with a staffer this week to begin a series of events that led to him being charged with multiple crimes on Friday, 13-year NFL veteran Amani Toomer told The Post’s Brandon London that the decision came down to “business.”
“In this situation, when the law is involved, when there are these types of relationships, I don’t really know. I don’t want to know. All I know is that it makes the program look bad,” said Toomer, who played for Michigan from 1992-95 before he was drafted by the Giants in 1996. “I don’t want to pile on. I know the pressure that is in that situation. I don’t know if he was the first option for a lot of Michigan alumni. The edict at Michigan is that nobody is bigger than the team.
“The team, the team, the team. No matter who you are, no matter what job you hold, if you embarrass that team or you do something that brand, as much as I loved the coach, as much as I appreciate his fire and all that stuff, you’re a leader of young men. You’re supposed to set an example at one of the finest universities in the land and this type of thing happens. It’s unfortunate but it’s business.
“You can’t affect that brand in this way. I don’t think there is any other way that it can happen. Timing be damned. It’s just, you can’t have this type of thing embarrass this program.”
Amani Toomer attends Charity Day 2025 Hosted by the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund at Cantor on September 11, 2025 in New York City.
The 39-year-old coach led Michigan for 2024 and ’25 and was fired on Wednesday for cause before his shocking arrest.
Moore is now facing charges of felony home invasion, and a pair of misdemeanors — stalking to go with breaking and entering — after busting into the home of his executive assistant, Paige Shiver, with a knife.
Michigan coach Sherrone Moore cheers as he runs onto the field for warmup at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025.
Without Moore, the No. 17 Wolverines will be led by interim coach Biff Poggi into a Citrus Bowl matchup against Texas on Dec. 31.
Poggi has been with the program for eight years.
