Biff Poggi is the Head Coach at Charlotte. He's done as well there in his inaugural season as his name would imply.
Things started off well this summer when he was only asked 3 questions at the AAC Media Days. See for yourself:
Don't let that suit fool you. That's not normally how he rolls. In fact, this is how you can find him on the sidelines (and simply most of the time he's awake):
Now, I don't mean to sound like some sort of snob, but I cannot imagine having someone dressed like that representing my alma mater on television. It has to be a disgusting embarrassment for anyone with a Charlotte degree that's paying any attention. College football is the front porch of your university? Charlotte's front porch has a fat old man, nearly shirtless and reeking of cigarettes, body odor, and Jim Beam, holding a shotgun in a rocking chair and screaming obscenities at anyone who walks by and steps anywhere near his lawn. I assume they're seeing applications to the school plummet this fall.
But, with this guy getting away with looking like that, they must suddenly be kicking ass on the field, right? Hardly. Charlotte is 2-6 with a win over FCS/D2/HBCU whatever it is South Carolina State and East Carolina (10-7). Tom Herman and FAU just buttfucked them in public last Friday night, 38-16.
It gets comically worse, however. This guy has lost his shit in multiple interviews this season. He came unhinged again last Friday night with a sideline reporter, ranting about his players, between the 3rd and 4th quarter of the FAU beating:
In the aftermath of that game, the guy has gone on to suspend a large portion of his team, students on scholarship at the university, for performance. Not doing something against team rules, or something criminal, or for slacking academics, no, this guy is suspending starters on his 2-6 team for performance.
It's hard to feel bad for this asshat in any way, shape or form. He was a henchman on Jim Harbaugh's staff after leveraging a star player, Blake Corum, to get that gig. How he was interviewed and someone at Charlotte thought "Yeah, I'll risk my career trajectory on this guy for this job, here and now." is beyond my reach. They were also talking to Barry Odom at the time, and passed on him for this lackey of Jim Harbaugh's. Odom wound up getting the UNLV job and only already has that program bowl eligible in year 1.
Anyway, I'm simultaneously flabbergasted and entertained that this guy has a gig and is actively imploding. Charlotte goes to 3-6 Tulsa with a bunch of suspended guys staying home, then they host 6-2 Memphis, 4-4 Rice and finish at 4-4 USF. If this guy closes out 2-10, and I'm in the admin at Charlotte, I'm cutting my losses and sending his fat old ass back to Ann Arbor.