Michigan must hold Warde Manuel accountable after another coaching mess

Tell me if you’ve heard this before, but University of Michigan Athletics Director Warde Manuel has another mess he needs to clean up.

Sherrone Moore’s firing — and subsequent alleged assault investigation and arrest — on Wednesday afternoon was the end of a short-lived era for the Michigan football program. It was also the latest entry in a concerning and long pattern under Manuel that the university can’t afford to ignore any longer.

Michigan has now watched four significant head coaches — Jim Harbaugh, Juwan Howard, Mel Pearson, and now Moore — leave the university under chaotic and embarrassing circumstances. Each situation is completely different, but under Manuel’s “leadership,” Michigan Athletics has repeatedly lurched from one crisis to the next, never fully in control, never ful