Biff poggi

I love the Lord, I love my family, and I love all my former players. I am blessed.

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

Bring back the days of QBs calling the plays and Mike LBs calling the defense. Too many dudes who never played controlling these elite players. FREE THE PLAYERS. FREE THE PLAYERS. Would be so much fun to see the difference in how the game is played. GREAT PLAYERS TRUST THEMSELVES.

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

I certainly hope all of you that buried Coach Whittingham, his staff, and Bryce Underwood, have the class to admit how wrong and unjust you were. Here’s my advice to all social media users- disagree if you want. Totally fine, give your reasons. But your personal attacks are an embarrassment to your parents and your family. Go Blue

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

Michigan wins outright ! Go Blue

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

Michigan wins outright. GoBlue

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

The hay is in the barn. The college football practice week is over, but for a walk thru tmrw. The question is how did Michigan prepare this week vs Oklahoma’s preparation. That is all that matters. The die is cast for Saturday.

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

WMU is over. No excuses. Film doesn’t lie. WMU result is rat poison for Oklahoma. They will not get what they are seeing on tape. I predict an extremely close game and a Michigan win.

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

It is hysterical to me that after one week , ONE WEEK, a bunch of pundits who have never played or coached have become professional morticians. They love to cynically bury Dabo , underwood, Schiano, Fickell and many , many others.

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

Great point!!!!!

[Jake Butt @Jbooty88]

The thing about the Protect College Sports Act that gets me… imagine if we panicked as the coaching salaries, mobility, and most of all.. the insane buyouts got crazier and crazier. Imagine if we pushed a bill deciding what coaches can and can’t do without consulting them. It would never fly.

Yet here we are limiting players. What they can make. How and when they can transfer. Etc etc. (And let me be clear, I’m supportive of guidelines) but is this not how we got here in the first place?

By deciding what the players couldn’t do without letting them have a voice just to the other extreme? (Meaning no NIL, No Bagels with cream cheese, etc.)

Now we’re going behind their back to the other extreme.

I don’t see how there’s a future bill/ future guidelines capping the players without hearing the players voice and getting them to sign off on it.

I’d imagine even if it got passed there will be further lawsuits. In a true free market, no one can artificially decide my salary cap but myself and the market.

You need a CBA, which would involve the players, but it won’t be easy. They’re incentivized and benefit from the current chaos. They make more from the way it’s set up right now. They will fight, and rightfully so, to keep it *as is* if this bill gets momentum and gets passed.

Why not ask each team to vote for 2-5 player reps per team. Include a committee of players across each conference. And let the players have a say in the future of the sport. It makes the most sense morally and logically. How can you artificially *command* the players to give up money, freedom, and leverage without *asking* them?

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

Phenomenal!!

[Jim Poggi @Poggistix7]

Hawks look phenomenal

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

Remember it is the first game. Michigan has a very talented roster. They will be just fine. Marathon not sprint.

[Jake Butt @Jbooty88]

Very important halftime for Whittingham and his staff. Offense has lost all identity. Run game is getting no push. There’s no space for these backs to get going. Inexcusable against a brand new def front for WMU

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

@ByPatForde Two really good head coaches in that game.

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

@yotacohead13 Yes I’m sure your 32 followers are glad you weighed in.

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

I thought Bill Belichick didn’t know anything about football, wasn’t a fit in college , was past his prime and would ruin the Carolina program. After a year of hearing that bull crap , I’m glad to see all the pundits , who are always wrong, keep their record intact

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

@yotacohead13 Have you ever won a Super Bowl, won a college game as a head coach lol

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

Big10 football begins this week as @uscfb hosts San Jose State in the Coliseum at 3pm EST. I think @LincolnRiley is coaching his best team at USC. This will be interesting for all Big10 football fans to see how this year USC will be a tough out in a really tough conference

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

@mamboitaliano__ I too was there for a month, but Milan and Como. Please share what breakfast looked like in the South.

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

Getting close to seeing what each CFB team actually has. There has been incredible enthusiasm around most programs coming out of spring and training camp. This is natural and important, if you don’t believe in yourself, who will. Coaches who think they have good teams will want to see it on the field against other programs, those who wonder if they are missing pieces will hope they are proven wrong. Will be a great CFB season!!

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

This is very powerful.

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

Before the whips, before the thorns, before a single nail was driven, Jesus was already bleeding. Not from any wound inflicted by human hands, but from the sheer crushing weight of what He knew was coming. Luke, the only Gospel writer who was a physician, records the detail: "And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground."

For centuries, skeptics treated this as pious exaggeration. Sweat does not become blood. But medicine has since documented the condition. It is called hematidrosis, and though extremely rare, it is real. Under conditions of extreme, mortal stress, the small capillaries surrounding the sweat glands can rupture, and blood seeps out through the skin, mingling with sweat. It has been recorded in prisoners awaiting execution and in people facing certain death. The documented trigger is precisely what Luke describes: a human being confronting an anguish at the outer limit of what a mind and body can bear. The physician among the Gospel writers recorded a genuine medical phenomenon, in exactly the circumstance modern medicine says produces it. One further detail makes it worse: hematidrosis leaves the skin tender and hypersensitive. If Jesus experienced this, then every blow that followed, the fists, the rods, the scourge, the thorns, landed on skin already inflamed before His trial even began.

Now consider where this happened. Gethsemane sits at the foot of the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron Valley from Jerusalem. The name itself is the sermon: Gethsemane comes from the Aramaic for "oil press." It was an olive grove, a working place where olives were crushed under a great stone, pressed repeatedly until the oil ran out. On the night before His crucifixion, the Son of God walked into the place of crushing, and there He was pressed until blood came through His skin. Scripture does not waste geography. Isaiah had written seven centuries earlier: "He was crushed for our iniquities."

Look at what actually happens in the garden. Jesus takes Peter, James, and John deeper into the grove and tells them something He says nowhere else in the Gospels: "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death." The Greek is stark; He is describing a sorrow so total it is itself lethal, grief pressing against the boundary of survival. Then He goes a stone's throw farther, falls on His face, and prays the prayer that has echoed through every Christian's darkest night since: "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Yet not my will, but yours, be done."

The cup is the key to the whole scene. In the prophets, the cup is a fixed image: the cup of God's wrath against sin, the cup the nations must drink down to the dregs. Jesus is not recoiling from Roman torture alone. Brave men and women have faced torture calmly, and thousands were crucified in that era. What no other human being has ever faced is what was in that cup: the full, concentrated judgment of God against the sin of the world, about to be poured out on the only innocent man who ever lived. He saw it clearly that night, and His body began to bleed under the sight of it.

And here is the detail that should stop you: He asked for the cup to pass, and it did not. The Father, who loved Him perfectly, said no. Because the only way to save you was for that cup not to pass. Jesus received the no, rose from the ground, and walked toward the torches coming through the trees. Three times He prayed; three times He surrendered. Meanwhile, a stone's throw away, the three disciples He had asked to watch with Him slept. He fought the greatest battle in the history of the world alone, while His closest friends could not stay awake one hour.

There is one more moment in the garden that is easy to read past. When the armed crowd arrives and Jesus identifies Himself, "I am he," John records that the entire detachment drew back and fell to the ground. Soldiers with weapons, flattened by three words. It is a flash of the truth beneath the whole scene: no one was taking His life from Him. He said so Himself: "No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord." The one who could have called twelve legions of angels let Himself be bound.

To the world, Gethsemane looks like weakness, a man begging to escape, trembling, sweating, falling on His face. But this is the opposite of weakness. Courage is not the absence of dread; it is seeing the full horror of what is coming, feeling it so completely that your body bleeds, and choosing to walk into it anyway, for the sake of people who were, at that very moment, asleep on you. That is what love does. He saw the cup. He saw you. He drank it.

Whatever garden you are in tonight, whatever cup you are begging God to take away, know this: you pray to a Savior who has knelt where you kneel, who knows what it is to receive the Father's no, and who proved forever that surrender to God's will is not defeat. It is victory dressed in blood and olive shade.

"Not my will, but yours, be done." Six words that saved the world.

Jesus is the Man of Sorrows, crushed so that you could go free. Thank You, Jesus.

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

@Tony_Ferg And you have

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

Continuing with teams that have better rosters and ,therefore will have a better season than currently forecast - Maryland. Malik Washington is very special. MD always has very good skill positions. Their weakness has been in the front 7s. Not this year. Stout on defense and the best OL Mike Locksley has ever had at MD. They will win 8+. Also Mike wore a red suit with white pinstripes to Big10 media day. No one wears a red suit unless you have some guys on your club. REDSUIT