Former Michigan head football coach Sherrone Moore avoided a trial for felony charges by pleading "no contest" to two misdemeanor charges for malicious use of a telecommunication device in a domestic relationship and trespassing. Moore will continue to wear an ankle monitor despite a defense request to remove it. Moore will be sentenced April 14 and can receive a maximum of just over six months in prison, though most expect he will not receive incarceration.

Moore was arrested on December 10, the day he was fired by Michigan for allegedly stalking his executive assistant, with whom he had been having an affair. That woman had ended their relationship two weeks prior and cooperated with the schools' internal investigation, when she informed it he was stalking her. Moore is alleged to have broken into the woman's house after he was terminated, threatened her, blamed her for his firing, and held a butter knife to his throat threatening to kill himself. 

Moore's attorney stated the evidence did not support the felony charges and the prosecution offered to waive the felony charges for the "no contest" plea on the two new misdemeanor counts.

My take: Another ugly chapter in the books. The woman who reported Moore has lost her position due to "budget restraints," because her position could not be covered by the university's $21-billion endowment of the football program's $200 million in annual revenue, as if money had anything to do with it. Moore avoids a felony conviction and isn't technically guilty of the misdemeanor counts, either.