Michigan football will have an interim head coach for the second straight game on Saturday, with Biff Poggi leading the Wolverines onto the field at Nebraska on Saturday. And, he’s making the rounds, having appeared on ESPN College GameDay on Saturday morning.
And apparently he’s got jokes.
On College GameDay, former Alabama head coach Nick Saban remarked about Poggi’s presence as the CEO (more than head coach) when he led high school powerhouse St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, Maryland. And Poggi had the perfect response when Saban said that he paid the players at the high school level.
“When you were at St. Frances, I never saw you coach a down,” Saban said. “You were the owner. You were Jerry Jones. You paid the players and all that. You did the payroll. Are you using the same philosophy at Michigan now?”
“Yeah, I learned all that from you!” Poggi retorted.
“That’s fantastic!” Kirk Herbstreit quipped.
Classic, especially considering the stigma of the SEC schools paying players before NIL became the law of the land.
Michigan football is set to play against the Cornhuskers on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. EDT at Memorial Stadium. The game will be broadcast on CBS.
This article originally appeared on Wolverines Wire: Biff Poggi’s hilarious College GameDay response to Nick Saban has fans buzzing online
Reporting by Isaiah Hole, Wolverines Wire / Wolverines Wire
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