Biff Poggi is expected to be named head coach at Charlotte, per BruceFeldmanCFB. The 'most interesting man in coaching' is set to be in charge of his own program.
was coming off of a 2-4 season where just one of those four losses was by single digits. Jim Harbaugh was on the hottest seat in the country; he already had taken a pay cut. The Wolverines were predicted by the media to finish fourth in the Big Ten East Division, behindMany expected that the 2021 season would be Harbaugh’s last at his alma mater. What has happened since then has been the biggest turnaround in college football.
Josh Gattis, Michigan’s offensive coordinator in 2021, also leaned on Poggi heavily last year. Gattis was one of the few holdovers going into the 2021 season, and was trying to jell with a new offensive line coach, new tight ends coach, new running backs coach and new quarterback coach. The young OC had a memorable introduction to Poggi., Gattis recalls Poggi telling him. “He was that blunt. He’ll call you out — if you’re not managing people right or managing situations.
“Yes,” Gattis said. The first-time offensive coordinator acknowledged that he sometimes felt like he didn’t have the group’s support or confidence, which had made things difficult. As Gattis allowed himself to open up, Poggi saw that it created an even more interesting dynamic. The coaches around the table were quiet, perhaps a bit stunned that this coach in his early 60s revealed something so intimate. Then new offensive line coach Sherrone Moore shared, and before he was finished, he was weeping. And so it went with every coach in the room. “That was huge for us as people,” says Moore, who is now a co-offensive coordinator. “It pushed us in another direction. When you do that, you think about things differently.
When many veteran head coaches feel pressured about hanging onto their jobs, their instinct is to become more involved in every phase of the program. Poggi, though, didn’t see that as the best solution for his boss. Harbaugh’s father, Jack, a college head coach for 19 years, said coaches need a relationship on their staff like Jim has with Poggi. “You need a guy that wants nothing in return and isn’t looking for a promotion or a pat on the back, and they have enough courage that when they see things that you might be able to tweak a little bit, or should be tweaked a little bit that they’re not afraid to say it,” he said. “They have that kind of relationship. Jim’s drawn tremendously from Biff.”.
“Everyone on the football team goes to college, so when I say St. Frances Academy is a school that will change your life, it really does.”, known then as Eyabi Anoma, was an eighth-grader when he met Poggi. “He was this guy with a big T-shirt on with no sleeves – ‘What are you wearing, dude?’” Okie recalled.
And it was a lesson from his time at St. Frances that Poggi took to Harbaugh in 2020. Poggi saw as a rival’s IMG Academy, another powerhouse stocked with four- and five-star talent. Poggi drew on something his son Henry had once said during his time at Michigan: Ohio State probably thinks about beating Michigan every single day, and he wasn’t sure the Wolverines thought about the Buckeyes until it was Ohio State week.
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