Michigan has had high highs and low lows. So how should AD Warde Manuel's tenure be viewed?

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Being a college sports fan in 2026 means living with a degree of cognitive dissonance. Even by those standards, Michigan fans have had a lot to process in the past six months.Michigan saw its football program dragged through the mud for several weeks in December. In April, the school had a parade through the streets of Ann Arbor to celebrate a men’s basketball national championship. A few days later, a judge sentenced former football coach Sherrone Moore to 18 months’ probation after he pleaded no contest to a pair of misdemeanors. Good luck trying to put a neat bow around all of that.Advertisement