Ex-Michigan star backs Biff Poggi as next head football coach

The Michigan Wolverines are successful the marketplace for a caller caput manager aft Sherrone Moore was fired for an alleged "inappropriate relationship" with a staffer and aboriginal arrested connected aggregate charges.

Two coaches the schoolhouse was rumored to beryllium funny successful – Alabama’s Kalen DeBoer and Arizona State’s Kenny Dillingham – don’t look to beryllium available. DeBoer has said he’s focused connected the Crimson Tide and their tally successful the College Football Playoff and Dillingham reportedly signed a declaration hold with the Sun Devils.

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Michigan Wolverines adjunct caput manager Biff Poggi connected the sideline during the Central Michigan Chippewas crippled astatine Michigan Stadium connected Sept. 13, 2025. (Rick Osentoski/Imagn Images)

Michigan named Biff Poggi the interim caput manager and astatine slightest 1 alum expressed enactment for him keeping the job.

"The champion mode guardant for @UMichFootball is to sanction Biff Poggi the 22nd caput manager of the University of Michigan, not interim, Head Coach," Devin Gardner wrote connected X.

Current Michigan choky extremity Marlin Klein credited Poggi with keeping the squad focused connected the upcoming vessel crippled alternatively of the extracurricular noise.

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Michigan Wolverines backmost Devin Gardner runs against the Ohio State Buckeyes astatine Ohio Stadium connected Nov. 29, 2014. (Greg Bartram/USA Today Sports)

"Coach Poggi is simply a legend, everybody loves him," Klein said, via Click connected Detroit. "The vibe successful the gathering has been awesome."

Poggi was the caput manager with the Charlotte 49ers earlier helium was fto spell and joined Moore’s unit astatine Michigan.

He revealed what Michigan players were feeling arsenic the Moore ungraded went down.

Michigan interim caput manager Biff Poggi answers a question during a Citrus Bowl quality league successful Winter Park, Florida, connected Dec. 15, 2025, up of his team's New Year's Eve quality against Texas successful the vessel successful Orlando, Florida. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

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"It has been a tumultuous time," Poggi said, via ESPN. "A batch of... archetypal disbelief, past anger, past really, what we're successful close present is the kids, rather frankly, consciousness precise betrayed, and we're trying to enactment done that."

Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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