But of all the early learning moments, he shared one in particular Thursday morning, when he spoke to hundreds of campers at Wayne State for the National Collegiate Showcase as part of the rotating summer circuit through Sound Mind Sound Body Academy.
“Everybody is going to have haters,” Moore began as he walked the hardcourt inside Wayne State Fieldhouse. “Your haters are holding their breath for you to fail, your job is to make their asses suffocate.”
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It was a mentality engrained in the Wolverines last season as they adopted a “Michigan vs. Everybody” mentality en route to their first 15-0 season in program history and their first national championship in more than a quarter of a century.
Former head coach Jim Harbaugh was suspended for three games on two separate occasions — the first by athletic director Warde Manuel after the program couldn’t reach a negotiated resolution with the NCAA over impermissible recruiting violations, the second by the Big Ten after allegations of illegal sign stealing were levied against former staffers in the U-M program — but Michigan’s locker room didn’t fracture.
Moore has been in Ann Arbor for going on seven years and watched the culture change from a 2-4 team in 2020 to the Big Ten championship team in 2021 and eventually a national champion this past January.
He remembered what it was like when players put individuals before the collective, and said it was only when the group fully bought in together and shut out the rest of the noise that it was able to reach the pinnacle.
