Bo Schembechler, who recruited Gary Moeller to play football at Ohio State and later helped make Moeller his successor at Michigan, says his friend shouldn’t have left the job.
Moeller resigned as Wolverine football coach then later pleaded no contest to charges stemming from a drunken scene in a restaurant and a subsequent argument with police April 28.
Schembechler was vacationing in Florida, but called his friend as soon as he heard about the trouble. He left a message.
“I waited all day and night, and he did not call me back,” Schembechler said. He was hoping to reach Moeller to persuade him to stay on the job through the trouble.
“I wish he would have called me,” Schembechler told the Detroit Free Press.
“I was away from it all, and I wasn’t in on the assassination. All the tapes and that stuff the Southfield police released. I’d never heard of anything like it.
“His best strategy would have been to throw himself at the mercy of everyone and quickly say, `This is a real screwup. And, I’m sorry.’ “
