Sherrone Moore is the new head coach for the Michigan football team, and he is working hard during his first offseason to get ready for 2024. The Wolverines won the national championship last year, and head coach Jim Harbaugh left for the Los Angeles Chargers shortly after the victory. Moore appeared at the SoundMind SoundBody National College Showcase in Detroit on Thursday, and he had a fiery message for the campers there.

“Everybody's going to have haters,” Sherrone Moore said, according to an article from 247 Sports. “Your haters are holding their breath for you to fail. Your job is to make their a**es suffocate.”

Moore had a lot of things to say to the prospects gathered at Wayne State University on Thursday, but that quote was one that stuck out.

Michigan Wolverines head football coach Sherrone Moore addresses the basketball crowd during a time out against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Crisler Center.
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Sherrone Moore touches of the recent Michigan football national championship

The Michigan football head coach also talked about his team's recent national title, citing hard work for the reason they were able to find so much success.

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“Our 2023 national championship team. How it was built: On a foundation of hard work,” Moore continued. “We had talented players, but we had to work our tail off every single second, every single moment, to become a champion. Every coach you're listening to and talking throughout this process, whether it's here, whether it's at another university, make sure you put that first: the hard work. Everybody has these star ratings, these different rankings. That's all well and good, but that s**t don't really matter when you get to a university. Because everybody's equal, so make sure you think about that.”

Obviously, the ultimate goal for Michigan this upcoming season is to defend their crown and win another national title. However, achieving that goal is going to be extremely difficult.

Year one for Sherrone Moore is going to be tough. This Wolverines team is going to look a lot different because of all the coaches and players that they have lost to the NFL. The schedule is also going to make things difficult on them. Michigan plays five teams this year that were at one point ranked in the top-10 last season: Texas, USC, Washington, Oregon and Ohio State.

All in all, it's going to be a tough year, and Michigan has a lot of haters that want to see them fail. We'll see if Moore can prove some people wrong in his first year as head coach.