Biff Poggi Returning
According to the Baltimore Sun, Biff Poggi is returning to Michigan as Associate Head Coach and helping with the O-Line.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/high-school/bs-sp-va-biff-poggi-leave-st-frances-michigan-20210710-dprxjnowcja27itawv27uxcvzq-story.html?outputType=amp
Well, I can’t see this as anything other than good news!
I'm pretty sure every Maryland high school football coach agrees with you.
That's cuz you see clearly and well.
+1 for clickerizing the link.
Fantastic. Let’s hope we don’t get the Biff who washes McFly‘s car
With a comment like that, why don’t you make like a tree and get outta here!
That sounds like great news to me. Moore stepping in as OL coach was a little concerning given his lack of experience coaching the position. It will be good to have more support for him.
Agreed. Good point.
More Blake Corum ;) ...and with the galloping beast superfrosh Edwards to combo, things should get very exciting this year.
Go Blue!
Hoping to see this outfit on the sidelines in early season games:
He's comfortable with his own body. And I say...flaunt it, Biff. FLAUNT IT!
Wouldn't a coach have to leave?
It’s an off field role/analyst. In addition, we won’t be able to recruit St. Francis for 2 years.
"Associate Head Coach and helping with the O-Line." Certainly does not sound like off field analyst role. If that were the case wouldn't they just say analyst?
I wouldn’t give him a title based on the local paper, which also says UM has agreed to. It recruit St. Frances for two years—witch indicates off the field position. I don’t like the move if that is true, because then we don’t have a chance at Maryland’s top guys, and it is a state where Jim built roots for seven years.
Well, It only means we cannot recruit a single high school for two years and since Biff essentially created that program I would be surprised if some of those kids transfer to different high schools.
Exactly it’s one high school I’m an entire state. It might mean we miss out on one kid for the next two years. Bringing in a top flight coach who can recruit and help with OL is well worth it
Yeah kinda surprising he would leave. Didn’t he pour money into that school to start a program from scratch? Will they be able to survive as the top team in the country without him?
There is a LOT of opposition to him and the way they built the program. They've essentially gone out and recruited players from around not only Maryland, but surrounding states as well. The Catholic school provides scholarships funded by the local parish to 'low-income' kids. And don't think Biff hasn't put some of his own money into that scholly fund. He did personally fund a lot of the training and facilities equipment they have. And because of all of this, he has a hard time scheduling games (especially home games) and he's a pariah in Maryland football circles. But players and parents around the state love him, if they can get access.
It seem like a similar setup to what DePorres and Country Day used to do back in the days of Chris Webber, et all...
My interpretation of that is "Double-Secret Extra Fancy Analyst," but I suppose I could be proven wrong if a coach departs imminently
Poggi had that associate head coach title last time. I think we can be sure he prefers it to just 'analyst".
The NCAA kinda loosened that rule. It’s “two years prior to the student-athlete enrolling” and they don’t consider the student athletes arriving in summer as enrolled until the fall semester.
So it shuts Michigan out of the 2022 class, but Michigan is allowed to recruit that school again for the 2023 class as long as the kid isn’t early enrolling. So for example, MSU isn’t allowed to recruit Cass Tech this year because of Wilcher but they are allowed to recruit Jalen Thompson (#167 overall player in 2023) from Cass Tech but he’s not allowed to enroll early. So skip whatever class you’re currently recruiting and don’t allow the next class to early enroll and you fit the NCAA criteria.
Yay NCAA.
Finally someone who can call out Jim and not be scared or worried. Biff is his own man
Sounds like Jim needs an elder voice in the room, as he was now the elder.
Huhhh this is an ambitious and interesting move. Seems like the only downside is not being able to recruit St. Frances for a couple years? Should help with other DC-area schools tho
Let’s just hope he doesn’t dress like he did at his last high school job
Let's absolutely hope he dresses that way.
Absolutely hoping for a picture of him in cut off shirt washing an Iroc Z on AA golf course, like that Onion picture of VP Biden on White House lawn.
We don't have anymore coaching spots available.
Are we sure it's not Assistant to the Head Coach or Associate AD?
Edit: this is accurate. His daughter is at Michigan and he's there to basically be friends with Jim and mentor all the young coaches he hired (while helping Moore with the OL).
Nice news.
He’d be a butthead not to.
Now go home and get your sports almanac.
This may be a good and necessary hire. However, why at this late date??? Michigan football appears to be a rudderless ship.
For hiring an analyst during *checks notes*... the offseason? You might be reaching a bit hard here in your criticism.
But its reaching outsidethebox so of course..
Doesn't look like any '22 guys from St. Frances are headed this way (at least no one's been mentioned in Seth's roundups), and there are no '23s on the radar. So on the one hand I say no big loss, on the other hand, JH has the head coach in his pocket and all he has to show for it is Blake Corum and Nikhai Hill-Green?
Hopefully this is good news but I still can’t see our staffing situation as anything other than a monkey rodeo. Every hire outside of Hart and Clinkscale feels quite desperate.
Well, considering the state of the offense for the last 4 years, it still need all the help it can get from experienced, well-regarded coaches. And looking at how Brown's defense literally fell off a cliff last season, that side also needs new blood and experienced, well-regarded help. I'm for bringing in all the help they can get - god knows Jim needs it...
You put MacDonald in
You ship Don Brown out
You bring Biff back in
And you shake it all about
You do the Pogi Poggi to turn yourself around
That's what it's all about
LOL! (Since I can't give points yet, I had to somehow show that I appreciated Golden's comment!