Jim Harbaugh has attracted an impressive amount of coaching talent to Michigan since he returned to Ann Arbor but the flip side of the resulting success has been that he has seen more than a few coaches and staff members leave the program to pursue other opportunities.
The Wolverines seem to have lost yet another key figure in the program this week as associate head coach and special adviser Biff Poggi is reportedly returning to the high school ranks to coach again.
Poggi spent most of his career as the successful head coach at The Gilman School in Maryland, winning over 100 games during his nearly two decade tenure there. He left the post in 2016 to join Michigan and has primarily been assisting Harbaugh on bigger picture items for the program ever since. It appears the bug to coach was just too great however as he’s returning to Maryland to coach at St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, according to a report from pressboxonline.com.
Harbaugh later confirmed the departure on Saturday afternoon while speaking to reporters at a football camp.
Harbaugh confirmed that Jim Minick and Biff Poggi have left the program for other opportunities
— Mark Snyder (@Mark__Snyder) June 17, 2017
Poggi’s son, Henry, is a redshirt senior fullback on the team.