“It’s something I always wanted to do, but it had to be the right place and the right time,” he said. It will also give Poggi a chance to prove his success as a head coach in the high school ranks can translate to college. With a 26-year age gap between Healy and Poggi and the new coach’s nontraditional rise in the coaching ranks, the 49ers will have a new look and feel. The Niners concluded their season on Saturday with a 26-21 home win over Louisiana Tech, Charlotte’s first home victory in 378 days. We’re going to run gap schemes and power will be the basis of our running game.” We’re going to run the football downhill. … We’re going to play a pro-style defense and a pro-style offense. We’re going to make you one-dimensional so you have to throw the football, and then we’re going to light you up. So we’re going to stop the run on defense. ![]() “Last time I checked, you can’t win games like that. “Look, we were 130th out of 131 on defense,” Poggi said. Poggi’s priority at Charlotte will be fixing the 49ers’ defense. He then got into college coaching with stops at Brown, Temple and The Citadel. In his playing days, Poggi was briefly on the 1978 Pitt team with Dan Marino before he transferred and got his degree from Duke. He later founded the football program at Saint Frances Academy, personally funding 65 scholarships as the school became a football powerhouse that was recently chronicled in the HBO documentary “The Cost of Winning.” Now in his third year with the third-ranked Wolverines, Poggi has assisted the team to an 11-0 record working under coach Jim Harbaugh.īefore his tenure in Michigan, he found success both as a hedge fund manager and a high school football coach in Baltimore, where he led Gilman School to 13 Maryland state titles. You should be asking what’s your timetable - my timetable is now.” That’s why I left Michigan and that’s what I’m expecting to do here. We want to win the AAC and we want to win it repeatedly, and we want to get to the College Football Playoff. “The AAC is the best Group of Five conference in the country, there’s no doubt about that. “We are not rebuilding but reshaping,” said Charlotte’s new coach, who was awarded a five-year contract worth $1 million annually. Poggi, 63, assured those in attendance that, while this season’s 3-9 record wasn’t ideal as the program plans to move from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference next season, he is optimistic about the 49ers’ future. ![]() “He’s the associate head coach of the Michigan Wolverines and he is now the head coach of the Charlotte 49ers.” “The people at Michigan rave about this man’s ability to build, to motivate and to lead,” Hill said of Poggi. On Monday morning in Jerry Richardson Stadium, Charlotte athletic director Mike Hill introduced new football coach Francis “Biff” Poggi, who will take over the program previously led by Will Healy. (Kevin Richardson / The Baltimore Sun via AP)ĬHARLOTTE - A new era has arrived for the Charlotte 49ers football team. The Charlotte 49ers hired Michigan associate head coach Biff Poggi as their new coach last week.
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