Charlotte fires Poggi, names Brewster interim

• Pete Thamel, ESPNNov 18, 2024, 07:33 PM ET Close College Football Senior Writer for ESPN. Insider for College Gameday.Charlotte fired football

coach Biff Poggi on Monday.Tight ends coach/associate head coach Tim Brewster will be the interim coach for the last two games, and the school will right away begin its search for a replacement.”I am appreciative to Biff Poggi for his management and mentorship of our student-athletes over these previous 2 seasons,”athletic director Mike Hill said in a statement Monday night.”No one can question Biff’s enthusiasm for helping young people succeed in life, both personally and professionally, however our on-field outcomes have actually regrettably disappointed everybody’s expectations. As we move on into the next chapter of Charlotte 49er Football, we will be trying to find a leader to take our program to the next level as a consistent bowl and championship competitor.”Poggi went 6-16 in his 2 seasons and was the 2nd American

Athletic Conference coach to be fired Monday after just 2 projects.(FAU fired Tom Herman previously in the day.)Poggi is expected to be owed a$1.3 million buyout from his original agreement,

sources said.Editor’s Picks Poggi was an unconventional hire, as he came to Charlotte from Michigan, where he was an associate head coach. He arrived at Charlotte with restricted college football experience, as he had been a successful head coach at St. Frances Academy of Baltimore.His dismissal comes in the middle of a four-game skid for the 49ers that consists of back-to-back blowout losses to Tulane and South Florida. The slide has actually dropped Charlotte to 2-4 in AAC play.Poggi went 3-9 last year, with the group’s discipline problems spilling over with a spree of individual foul charges in a game against FAU. Poggi suspended an unspecified variety of players and issued a declaration in which he said he was”exceptionally disappointed with our carriage as a football group.”There are now five open AAC jobs, as Rice, Temple, East Carolina and FAU have all fired their coaches.Charlotte’s last and only bowl game in school history was available in 2019.