{"id":351409,"date":"2025-12-16T04:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351409\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T04:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:25:13","slug":"biff-poggi-says-michigan-players-feel-betrayed-after-sherrone-moore-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351409\/","title":{"rendered":"Biff Poggi says Michigan players feel \u2018betrayed\u2019 after Sherrone Moore firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan interim head football coach Biff Poggi said Monday that his players feel a sense of \u201cbetrayal\u201d following the firing of coach Sherrone Moore over what the school said was an inappropriate relationship with a female staffer in the program.<\/p>\n

Moore, 39, was fired Wednesday<\/a> after allegedly confronting the woman and threatening suicide after she disclosed the relationship to investigators. Moore was arrested and arraigned Friday on charges of third-degree home invasion, breaking and entering and stalking at the staffer\u2019s home. He was released from Washtenaw County Jail Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel elevated Poggi to interim head coach from his associate head coach role after Moore\u2019s firing. It is the latest chapter in the career of a man considered by some as \u201cthe most interesting man in coaching<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Poggi is wading in very emotional waters as he tries to prepare the Wolverines for their game against Texas in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl on Dec. 31 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been a tumultuous time,\u201d Poggi said during media availability<\/a> for the bowl game. \u201cA lot of anger and, at first, disbelief. The kids quite frankly feel very betrayed, and we\u2019re trying to work through that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poggi was asked how preparation has been going for him and the players.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnique and complex, obviously,\u201d Poggi responded<\/a>. \u201cMultiple levels of complexity that our young people are dealing with and our university is dealing with, our athletic director, Warde Manuel, is dealing with. And our team, our coaches and our kids. I don\u2019t know that you can prepare for something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to developing a game plan for his team, Poggi has also had to be an ad hoc counselor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve met individually with all of the players multiple times, and with the parents, Zoomed with the parents multiple times,\u201d he said. \u201cThe message has been listening. I want to listen to them. I want to understand how the kids are feeling and what their parents are feeling. There\u2019s been a wide range of emotions, as you can imagine. We are going through those steps. They\u2019re not over yet, and I don\u2019t expect them to be over for a while.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut our main message is, the mandate that Warde Manuel gave me was to love and take care of the kids. So that\u2019s what I\u2019m spending all of my time doing is loving kids.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan interim head football coach Biff Poggi said Monday that his players feel a sense of \u201cbetrayal\u201d following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,1607,451,1777,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-351409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-college-football","tag-headlines","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}