Since most of his coaching duties are on the offensive side of the ball, Poggi has watched tape of what the 6-1, 225-pound Keihn has done in his first season at Maryland. I'm involved in most facets of what's going on, from recruiting to you name it - to helping get a chaplain hired.” “I'm basically with every part of the team. Poggi's role with the Wolverines is a bit undefined. If he decides to stay at Michigan, Poggi said he will buy a house in Ann Arbor and move his wife and younger daughter there. Poggi's wife, Amy, is still in Baltimore, where Mary, the youngest of their five biological children, is in the eighth grade. Poggi said he signed a one-year contract with Michigan and has recently started talking to Harbaugh about making it more of a long-term commitment. Henry Poggi said he hasn't had to adjust much to having his dad around, especially since he's been coached by his father much of his life.īiff Poggi, 56, acknowledges that “it didn't end well” at Gilman after an association that dates to his own high school days. I'm getting an Oxford tutorial every day. Poggi, who left Gilman in January, joined the Wolverines staff in August.
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It's something you don't get all the time.” I have two children at Michigan and I thought I could be there with my kids.
“It was the right thing for me to do,” Poggi said. The opportunity to spend more time around his children attending Michigan won out. Then he got a call from Harbaugh, asking whether he was interested in going to Ann Arbor. After the Terps hired Durkin in December, Biff Poggi said the two had several conversations about the possibility of leaving Gilman to join Durkin's coaching staff in College Park.Īccording to Poggi, he “was close” to joining Durkin in a similar role to the one he has now. “It was a great experience to see how the kids support their team,” Keihn said. While sitting out last year after transferring, Keihn visited Henry Poggi at Michigan and went to two games, including one in which he sat in the student section with Mellie and her friends. This won't be Keihn's first trip to the Big House. I kind of look at it as if I would have gotten a chance to play against my brother Jim, who was at Iowa.
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Henry Poggi said in a telephone interview Wednesday that playing against Keihn “will be a really special experience, I think.
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“?‘The fact that you're on offense and I'm on defense, I'm pretty sure we're going to crack helmets a little bit.'?” “I said, ‘This is one game I'm looking forward to because I get to go against someone I played with and I looked up to in high school, and now I get to play against you,'?” Keihn recalled. Keihn said he texted Henry Poggi this week. “As far as me going to play against my father and my big brother, that's one thing I'm excited about it … but it's not like it's a game I've dreamed about. Keihn, who lived in Liberia until age 8, said he will treat the game no differently from any other he has played so far for the Terps or in the season he spent at Virginia Tech. It's like having two kids, one playing for Michigan and one playing for Maryland.” “He'll never be on the other side of the field. “It will be business, but as I've told him, ‘I'm rooting for the University of Michigan - and for you,'?” the elder Poggi said about Keihn in a telephone interview this week. The return of first-year Maryland football coach DJ Durkin on Saturday to Michigan, where he spent last season as Jim Harbaugh's defensive coordinator, isn't the only reunion that will take place in Ann Arbor during the matchup between the Terps and the third-ranked Wolverines.Īnother, involving a former high school coaching icon and his two sons, one of whom grew up in Africa before coming to the United States and eventually moving in with the coach and his family in the ninth grade, has more emotional ties that lead directly back to Baltimore.īiff Poggi, who won 13 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championships in 19 seasons at Gilman, is in his first season as a special adviser for Harbaugh at Michigan, where Poggi's son Henry is a 6-foot-4, 257-pound senior fullback and his daughter Mellie is a sophomore.įather and son are looking forward to catching up with Melvin Keihn, a redshirt sophomore linebacker for the Terps who moved in with the Poggis shortly after enrolling at Gilman.
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