​A new Wall Street Journal investigation has revealed that Michigan athletics director Warde Manuel and other university officials received multiple warnings about former head football coach Sherrone Moore’s relationship with Paige Shiver well before Moore was fired in December, directly contradicting the university’s portrayal of his dismissal as a swift response to newly discovered misconduct.The findings come from Jenner & Block, the law firm the university hired to investigate the culture of the athletic department. Per the WSJ report — great ready to read that a lot in this article — the law firm concluded the school’s response to the allegations was insufficient and it was not clear who was handling reports of wrongdoing within the department.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe university has not made the report public, and as of Tuesday, July 14, they have no intentions of releasing the findings, according to MLive.Perhaps the most damaging detail in the WSJ report is the timeline of the situation. Two days before the 2024 season opener — before Moore had coached a single game as Michigan’s head coach — Manuel had reportedly raised concerns with Moore about his close relationship with Shiver.“I told him I didn’t remember if we had already discussed, but that she couldn’t accompany him on trips,” Manuel wrote in a previously unreported note on Aug. 29, 2024, handwritten on Michigan letterhead, per the WSJ report.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementMore than a year passed between that note being written and Moore being fired for cause. During that time, Jenner & Block found that multiple additional allegations had surfaced: a report of Shiver acting inappropriately in Moore’s office, a hotline complaint received by Manuel directly, and a report made by Shiver’s own father to university officials about Moore’s emotional state. The university was also aware of Moore’s online interactions with a donor’s wife, who had posted “provocative photos on her Instagram account,” per the WSJ.Despite all that, Moore remained Michigan’s head coach until this past December, when Shiver reported her relationship with Moore to university officials.The report also details how their relationship developed. Shiver began working for the football program as an intern in Nov. 2021. Just one month later, Moore messaged her on Instagram. Their physical relationship began in Jan. 2022 on a recruiting trip in Colorado, according to the WSJ report.“That summer, Shiver had an abortion and told Moore that she went to a hospital to be treated for postpartum depression, according to the firm’s findings,” the WSJ report reads verbatim. “She texted Moore about Michigan’s head coach at the time, Jim Harbaugh. ‘Mr. Harbaugh helped me get into the head person here,’ she texted Moore. ‘Don’t worry he doesn’t know everything and won’t[,] just knows I’m not well.’”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertis