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Charlotte fires coach Biff Poggi after two seasons, sources say

Charlotte has fired coach Biff Poggi, sources told ESPN.

The school is expected to announce the firing Monday night, as it has lined up tight ends coach/associate head coach Tim Brewster to be the interim coach, sources said.

Poggi went 6-16 in his two seasons and was the second AAC coach to be fired Monday after just two seasons. (FAU fired Tom Herman earlier in the day.)

Poggi is expected to be owed a $1.3 million buyout from his original contract, sources said.

Poggi was an unconventional hire, as he came to Charlotte from Michigan, where he was an associate head coach. He arrived at Charlotte with limited college football experience, as he had been a successful head coach at St. Frances Academy of Baltimore.

His dismissal comes amid a four-game losing streak that includes back-to-back blowout losses to Tulane and South Florida. That slide dropped Charlotte to 2-4 in AAC play.

Poggi went 3-9 last year, with the team's discipline issues spilling over with a spree of personal foul penalties in a game against FAU. Poggi suspended an unspecified number of players and issued a statement in which he said he was "extremely disappointed with our comportment as a football team."

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 came in 2019.