Michigan Coach Sherrone Moore Says There Will Be "No More Flag Planting" from His Team This Year

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If Michigan defeats Ohio State for the fifth straight season, there won't be an encore of last season's flag-planting dust-up between the two bitter rivals.

That's according to Sherrone Moore, who said his team's days of planting a flag on an opponent's home field are over on Thursday at Big Ten media days.

"When we win a game, it's go meet the band, go sing our Victors and stay over there until after the other team departs," Moore said. "That's how we'll operate. You know, shake hands after the game, show sportsmanship, be cordial. A lot of guys in college football know each other. All these guys, they're kids -- at the end of the day, they are 17 to 22-year-old kids, and most of them are friends. A lot of them talk before the game, so let them have that. But then as a team, go be together as a team and leave as a team."

Michigan defensive end Derrick Moore was at the center of the flag-planting incident that raised tensions between the two squads, though he says he himself did not actually plant the flag. Moore recalled the event on Thursday.

"I actually was trying to just run around the field with the flag and as (I was) running around with the flag, I got pushed and things like that. So I ended up talking trash and next thing, the flag ended up coming out of my hand and the whole scuffle turned out," Moore said. "But looking back on that, I probably got two views on it. I feel like I could have done a better job as a leader of not letting that get out like that. Pretty much just celebrating with my teammates and things like that. But at the same time, I feel like that right there is pretty much why people come to Michigan or Ohio State. It's 'cause of rivalries and atmospheres like that. I feel like that right there is going to be a good leap going into this year again."

The Big Ten fined both Ohio State and Michigan $100,000 following the incident.

Ohio State hopes to debate whether it will retaliate by planting its own flag on its rivals' field as it attempts to snap its losing skid against the Wolverines on Nov. 29 in Ann Arbor this season.