Biff Poggi

[Banta55]

Was under serious consideration to be the Uconn coach..Read a real nice piece about him in the Athletic, he's a assistant at Michigan.

 

[huskymedic]

Was under serious consideration to be the Uconn coach..Read a real nice piece about him in the Athletic, he's a assistant at Michigan.

Meet Michigan's Biff Poggi: Jim Harbaugh's consigliere is the most interesting man in coaching

In a high school coach who built a national powerhouse from scratch, the Wolverines found the man who helped right the ship in Ann Arbor.

theathletic.com

“A few days before Michigan won the Big Ten title game, Poggi got serious consideration from UConn to be its head coach. Jim Mora got the job.”

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

What an odd choice to be one of our top candidates besides Mora. He is an interesting guy....who has had an interesting career.... but from what I read he hasn't been a head coach at the college level? And he is 62.

That would have been a very risky hire....it may have worked...I like what he has to say....but wow...what a risk that would have been.

Thank you Mora for being interested.

 

[huskymedic]

Meet Michigan's Biff Poggi: Jim Harbaugh's consigliere is the most interesting man in coaching

In a high school coach who built a national powerhouse from scratch, the Wolverines found the man who helped right the ship in Ann Arbor.

theathletic.com

“A few days before Michigan won the Big Ten title game, Poggi got serious consideration from UConn to be its head coach. Jim Mora got the job.”

What an odd choice to be one of our top candidates besides Mora.

Something was nagging me about the statement above…

Mora was hired/announced on November 11th 2021. The Big Ten Title Game was December 4th, 2021

Maybe a “few days before” is just artistic/literary license.

 

[Waquoit]

That would have been a very risky hire....it may have worked...I like what he has to say....but wow...what a risk that would have been.

But we would have had a head coach named Biff!

 

[ZooCougar]

What an odd choice to be one of our top candidates besides Mora. He is an interesting guy....who has had an interesting career.... but from what I read he hasn't been a head coach at the college level? And he is 62.

That would have been a very risky hire....it may have worked...I like what he has to say....but wow...what a risk that would have been.

Thank you Mora for being interested.

That would have been like a UMass style hire.

 

[Waquoit]

That would have been like a UMass style hire.

I'm thinking they might be doing slightly better if their coach called himself "Biff" Brown.

 

[HobokenHusky]

Guy sounds great, but this place would have absolutely lost it if he was hired. Glad we didn’t have to go through that.

 

[DoctorWho85]

Something was nagging me about the statement above…

Mora was hired/announced on November 11th 2021. The Big Ten Title Game was December 4th, 2021

Maybe a “few days before” is just artistic/literary license.

Maybe the meant considered for a coordinator position not head coach?

 

[AD DB Burner]

What an odd choice to be one of our top candidates besides Mora. He is an interesting guy....who has had an interesting career.... but from what I read he hasn't been a head coach at the college level? And he is 62.

That would have been a very risky hire....it may have worked...I like what he has to say....but wow...what a risk that would have been.

Thank you Mora for being interested.

If you watched the documentary on the St Frances Academy football team in Baltimore from a few years back you would understand why this guy has the chops to be a successful HC at the college level. He would need a great staff in place to make it work, but he would be a tremendous recruiter and salesman for any program.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

Maybe the meant considered for a coordinator position not head coach?

That's not what the article says...

"A few days before Michigan won the Big Ten title game, Poggi got serious consideration from UConn to be its head coach. Jim Mora got the job."

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

If you watched the documentary on the St Frances Academy football team in Baltimore from a few years back you would understand why this guy has the chops to be a successful HC at the college level. He would need a great staff in place to make it work, but he would be a tremendous recruiter and salesman for any program.

So you would have been ok with UConn hiring him as head coach last year?

 

[AD DB Burner]

So you would have been ok with UConn hiring him as head coach last year?

I would have been shocked just like everyone else, but I would have been on board with the outside-the-box thinking.

That being said, I am thrilled with Mora and how things have worked out over the past year for the Huskies.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

I would have been shocked just like everyone else, but I would have been on board with the outside-the-box thinking.

That being said, I am thrilled with Mora and how things have worked out over the past year for the Huskies.

I would struggle to get onboard with that hire. Too big of a risk for where UConn was as a program.

 

[Chin Diesel]

But we would have had a head coach named Biff!

And now it's up to me to do everyone else's work and post the obilgatory Biff pics.

 

[CL82]

And now it's up to me to do everyone else's work and post the obilgatory Biff pics.

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“Make like a tree and get out of here“

 

[Devland]

Who the hell names their kid Biff? Alcohol had to be involved

 

[DawgEnjoyer]

TBH I thought this might have been a mislabeled OT post about some restaurant or pastry shop in New Britain

 

[ibleedhuskyblue]

Article backdoor

It's actually a very interesting article.

 

[formerlurker]

Who the hell names their kid Biff? Alcohol had to be involved

They named him appropriately in my opinion.

 

[AD DB Burner]

I guess we will find out rather quickly how ready he really is to be the HC at a college program.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Waquoit]

I'm thinking Biff plays better south of the Mason-Dixon line.

 

[jrg23]

Article backdoor

It's actually a very interesting article.

That dude should be priority #1 should Mora leave us (which we all hope he doesn't). His upside at UConn is much higher than it would be at Charlotte.

 

[phillionaire]

Star Wars-ass name