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Newsstand: Biff Poggi calls Michigan win 'love letter' to Sherrone Moore

Anthony Broomeby: Anthony Broome5 hours agoanthonytbroome
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The Michigan Wolverines knocked Central Michigan out of the Big House with a 63-3 blowout win on Saturday. It was the first game for interim head coach Biff Poggi, serving as the man in the main headset while Sherrone Moore serves a two-game school-imposed suspension as part of the NCAA’s sign-stealing sanctions.

Poggi called the blowout win a “love letter” from the Michigan players to their head coach, who watched the game from home with his wife and three kids on Saturday.

“This is a really young football team,” Poggi said. “Highly talented and very young. And I want to say this. You know, what an odd day. Because today, this day was actually heartbreaking for me. Because I have children that are Sherrone’s age. And we were texting last night. Just about how much he loves me, and I love him. And it was a really hard week in our building, a really hard and emotional week. I think what people that care realize that football is a game about relationships. And his players love him like you wouldn’t believe. And what I would say today was you saw a love letter from 120 young men to their football coach today. And I think that’s outstanding.

“…It was everything. He said I don’t want you playing for me. I want you playing for yourselves and I don’t want you playing for the coaches and for Michigan. As soon as he walked out of the door, I said, we love him. We all work for him. But we’re not listening to that. And so they were locked in for him. And it was a very — at dinner last night, it was a very tearful moment because the players brought him up and gave the break, had him give the break. At that point, he left and he was a wreck. But so was everybody else in there.”

Michigan and Poggi will be back in action next Saturday with a 3:30 p.m. ET kick against the Nebraska Cornhuskers on CBS.

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“Earlier in the week, he told us he would do anything to be out there with us. He just said to play for the name on the back; don’t even play for me. Because we all said we’re going to play for Coach Moore this game. He said play for the name on your back. He said he was going to be at home, jumping up and down on his couch, regardless of what happens. He said he was proud of us and he loves us, so we went out there and played for Coach Moore.”

– Michigan freshman defensive back Elijah Dotson on the absence of Sherrone Moore on Saturday

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