Charlotte became the first of the nine in-season coaching openings to close during the 2022 coaching cycle. Its choice: Michigan associate head coach Biff Poggi.
Poggi has spent the past two seasons as the “consigliere” to Jim Harbaugh at Michigan, and was vital when Harbaugh hired a mostly new staff heading into the 2021 season. You may remember Poggi as a sartorial innovator sporting cutoff sleeves at his last stop as a head coach at Saint Frances Academy in Maryland.
He promises to remain all cutoff all the time in his new role once the team hits the field, but he forgot his suit for his introductory press conference as the new head coach of the Charlotte 49ers.