‘I get an F-minus on that:’ Charlotte coach says team will be without myriad injured starters for season opener
Charlotte goes to be moderately shorthanded in opposition to James Madison on Saturday.
49ers coach Biff Poggi said this week that his personnel will be with out as many as 9 of its 22 starters on both facet of the ball for Charlotte’s season opener. And he blamed himself for why the personnel has so many key gamers injured forward of the season, insinuating that he pushed his gamers too laborious in their preseason practices.
From the Charlotte Observer:
“I’m no longer huge at math, but it’s getting end to 50% (of starters),” Poggi said. “I truly feel very immoral for those children, but I do know the young those that get a possibility to play will play laborious. And I grasp accountability for that as the head football coach.
“Whenever you occur to delivery with JMU — a program that’s 19-4 over the final couple of years — you get a exiguous overzealous, and likewise you settle on to balance between that callous that you just’d like the gamers to contain, and getting them wholesome. And I get an F-minus on that.”
Poggi said he hoped the total gamers may presumably per chance well be again by the level convention play starts on the end of September in opposition to Rice. After the Week 1 sport in opposition to James Madison, Charlotte goes to North Carolina sooner than net hosting FCS opponent Gardner-Webb in Week 3.
The 49ers then play at Indiana in Week 4 sooner than they’ve eight American Athletic Convention games to develop the season. You don’t want us to let you understand it obtained’t be easy for the 49ers in opposition to a James Madison personnel that’s been distinctive in its two seasons on the top stage of faculty football and on the facet road in opposition to two energy convention opponents. A 1-3 represent feels care for the real looking for Charlotte heading into convention play.
From there, Charlotte would must rep three more wins in convention play to enhance on final season’s represent. The 49ers were 3-9 within the veteran Michigan assistant’s first season accountable.
