If he is in the fold, it will give Michigan football yet another option at pass rusher, as the program looks to replace the production lost by No.
3 player in the country, regardless of position, according to 247Sports’ proprietary rankings. He played sparingly in his freshman year at Alabama and did not appear for Houston.Īs a recruit, Anoma was the No. PFF gave Anoma an overall 72.3 grade for the 2021 season, and he had seven sacks for UT-Martin. Now here’s where things get interesting: On3’s Anthony Broome reports that it appears that Michigan will finally land Anoma - a good five years after the courtship ended.Īnoma is in the Michigan student directory, indicating that this is likely a done deal, and that he has been accepted. He entered the NCAA transfer portal yet again on Monday. He committed to Alabama, but transferred out, having ventured to Houston, before being dismissed for violation of team rules and ultimately transferring to Tennessee-Martin in 2020. Still, Anoma ended up being a white whale missed out on. Frances Academy - a school that has given the Wolverines Blake Corum, Nikhai Hill-Green, Derrick Moore, and assistant head coach Biff Poggi, among others - Anoma was a primary focus of the staff’s 2017 satellite camp tour, with the stop at Bowie State in Bowie, Maryland. Hailing from Michigan feeder school Baltimore (Md.) St. It looks like that could be the case for Michigan football when it comes to a former five-star EDGE prospect in Eyabi Anoma, a player the Wolverines coveted badly, but lost out on to Alabama. Want to support our work? (You have options.If at first you don’t succeed, keep trying until you get your recruit of choice - even if it takes a good five years.
Nate Tinner-Williamsis co-founder and editor of Black Catholic Messenger, in priesthood formation with the Josephites, and a ThM student with the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA). Interested parties can donate to the school here. We also congratulate Coach Messay Hailemariam and we look forward to watching the team grow under his leadership and direction.” The Poggi family will always hold a special place in the heart of our school community! We are sincerely grateful for all that they have done for us. We congratulate Coach Biff Poggi who will be greatly missed.
Similarly, the transition has also raised questions about funding, as Poggi’s new post requires him to “cut all ties” with SFA-including financial support.Ĭoncerning the football program, the school provided a short statement to BCM: “The football program at SFA is very stable and will continue to receive support from a variety of donors.
“I’m very confident in what I know and what I’ve learned with Biff.” “He’s left it better than he found it, but the goal is not to be dependent on one person,” Hailemariam told the Sun. Poggi's program quickly became a nationally-ranked powerhouse, dominating the competition to the point that local schools, including Gilman, refused to play them, occasioning accusations of racism-SFA’s student body is ~90% Black-and forcing SFA into a more national schedule (which Poggi also helped fund).ĬOVID-19 interrupted the football program’s operations, which were documented by ESPN in 2018 and in an HBO docuseries in late 2020, and Poggi’s exit comes as the school approaches a return to normalcy. (At the time, he was head coach across town at the predominantly-White Gilman School, his alma mater.)Īfter arriving at SFA in 2017, he poured funds into football and education alike-paying the salaries of his handpicked staff, supplementing the salaries of several teachers, and underwriting tuition and housing for dozens of student-athletes. He will be succeeded as the Panthers’ head coach by his assistant Messay Hailemariam, who had served as head coach for several years before Poggi’s arrival.Ī millionaire hedge fund manager, Poggi helped start the football program at SFA in 2008, when he served as a board member for the school and donated $60,000. “This was a chance to go one last time on a really big stage, to a legendary program,” the 61-year-old Poggi told the Baltimore Sun on Saturday, adding that he desires to be closer to his daughter Mary (who will start school at UM this fall). He will return to an associate head coach position at the University of Michigan under Jim Harbaugh, a position he held for a year in 2016 just before his arrival at the Oblate Sisters of Providence flagship. Biff Poggi, the high-powered head football coach at St Frances Academy in Baltimore, is leaving the school after four years.
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