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John Middlebrook/CSM/AP PhotoįRANCIS XAVIER POGGI was born in 1959 and essentially raised in Baltimore's Little Italy, the product of an Italian-Greek family that struggled to pay its monthly bills. Frances, Poggi won 13 championships in 19 years at rival Gilman School. Frances supporters hear excuses and racially coded language, and they wonder why there were no such objections when the Panthers not so long ago were getting crushed by the same schools boycotting them now. His program, say the most outraged of the critics, is simply too good. Their success has been deemed unhealthy, even unfair.

They cited issues of player safety, saying Poggi has assembled an all-star team of transfer players from as far away as Florida, a team of college-caliber athletes. And, oh, by the way, he and his coaching staff are scrambling to assemble a 2018 schedule after most of his MIAA opponents announced they will forfeit this season's games against St. That's nice, says Poggi, but at the moment he's trying to help a player whose mother has resorted to breaking the law to support herself. 4 national ranking in the USA Today poll and outscored their Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association conference opponents 342-50. Together they finished the 2017 season with a 13-0 record, with a No. Frances players on the 2017 team who say they've lost immediate and extended family members to Baltimore's violence. The scholarship total is only slightly less than the 26 St. Nineteen starters from 2017 received college scholarships to such programs as Alabama, Maryland, Mississippi State, West Virginia, Indiana, Duke, Georgetown and at least one school in the Ivy League. When they run in the streets of East Baltimore, it isn't uncommon for row house residents to come out and cheer.ĭespite where they come from, many of Poggi's players are finding hope. Frances 'Baltimore's team - I mean, real Baltimore.' The Panthers have no home stadium they play in a public park. E:60: How a boxing trainer survived a murder plot hatched by his wife.We're going to send them to college, they're going to get their degrees and then they're going to come back and make a difference.' Editor's Picks Frances as a drop of dye in the bucket of Baltimore, and it's going to spread, and we're going to do it one kid at a time, one year at a time, one team at a time. I'm not listening to that nonsense anymore,' Poggi says.

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'I am so sick of going to dinner parties and enduring the chin-wagging from people who say, 'Oh, my god, what's happening in our country? Why are the jails full of African-American men? They don't value what we value.'.

For more of the best stories in sports, see our collection of award-winning profiles, investigations and feature stories, anytime, with E:60 On Demand and on your favorite streaming device.ĭespite the daily, often hourly, soul-crushing obstacles his players face - poverty, neglect, violence and racism - Poggi is building a national football powerhouse, largely by spending more than $2.5 million of his own money.īut he says his bigger goal is to provide a foundation for the players who are part of his program. Frances Academy's football program at 9 a.m. Watch the story of Biff Poggi's battle to build St. I wanted to do something else.' BATTLE OF BALTIMORE I decided I did not want to water-ski behind yachts. And at some time, all of us are going to have ask ourselves the question: 'What difference did we make for the least of them?'. 'No human being I have ever heard of has escaped death,' he says. Frances Academy, a dilapidated oasis of hope surrounded by the desolation and despair of East Baltimore. And he certainly doesn't have to coach at St. Poggi doesn't have to work another day in his life. Ask who's having a better financial year, him or his former boss, Jim Harbaugh (who earned a reported $7 million last year), and the 57-year-old Poggi will laugh and respond without hesitation, 'Me, of course.' He has his own jet, a conga line of business investments and a sprawling estate in one of Baltimore's most lovely suburbs.

He made a generational fortune, almost by accident, as an investment fund manager.

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