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Report: Poggi's dad becoming associate head coach

Related Topics: Gilman School, Head coach

For months, Biff Poggi has weighed his options.

Now he's coming to Michigan.

The longtime coach at Baltimore's Gilman School and father of U-M fullback Henry Poggi will join the Wolverines as an associate head coach/special adviser, the Baltimore Sun reported today.

Poggi retired as Gilman coach in January, after 19 years, and told the Sun at the time that he was undecided about his future.

"I felt like, if I was ever going to do it, this is like the sun, the moon and the stars have lined up, and I really am very comfortable with Jim and the coaching staff," Poggi told the Sun, calling Harbaugh "a wizard.