As a scholarship player from 1958 to 1962, Moore played as a career backup quarterback for legendary coach Bear Bryant, behind Pat Trammell and subsequently Joe Namath.

During a coaching career that spanned 31 years, Moore spent 22 of those at Alabama, with stops at Montana State, Notre Dame, and the NFL's St. Louis and Phoenix Cardinals.

After building an impeccable reputation as an assistant football coach at Alabama, Notre Dame, and in the National Football League, Moore's enormous success as an athletics administrator was largely personal, as he skillfully and successfully dealt with issues and initiatives that required the cooperation of numerous campus and statewide entities.

[opinion] Moore possessed a gift for inspiring confidence by harmonizing diverse groups and disparate personalities into a smoothly functioning coalition.

He is the only individual connected with the Tide program – and likely the only person in collegiate athletics – to be a part of ten national football championships.

Moore's vision was to make all Crimson Tide athletic teams and student-athletes nationally competitive at the highest level.

[19] Those projects encompassed the entire scope of all Crimson Tide athletic programs and benefited every Alabama student-athlete, coach, and administrator.

Throughout his administrative career, Moore worked with a diversified field of constituents, from fellow coaches and former players, to fans and the business community.

All of those experiences and relationships – in addition to his ability to unify those many constituents – made him uniquely qualified to lead Alabama athletics in the 21st century.

[24] On March 30, 2013, Moore died at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, of pulmonary problems at the age of 73.