I think you too "owns" a little too literally. If he gives $1M a year to the school he has full control. He left Gilman because they wouldn't let every single player he wanted in the school. So he goes to Michigan for a year, his players and assistants go over to St Frances, and he comes back to run the St Frances program. What was his job at Michigan? To "get things done financially"
Stop being ridiculous. You used the word "own". Don't blame me for taking your words literally. Nobody knows what you "really intended to say".
If you had a situation where he was doing the bare minimum to keep his players eligible, where everything was focused on football success, and then he turned his back on his former players while they went back to the row houses in Baltimore to sell drugs, that would be one thing.
But St. Frances is taking the education seriously, they are preparing the kids for college, they are successfully getting kids into college at a far higher rate than the kids would have if they just stayed in the Balto public school system.
What are you mad about? That he succeeds? That he pays for a lot of it? Why should I care that a person with means ends up spending that money on providing education, growth, and opportunities to disadvantaged kids?
My girlfriend went to UMAB Law School, about a mile or so from St. Frances Academy. She volunteered in that community. I visited her many times when she was in law school there, I know what those communities are like. Most of the white population of Baltimore headed for the suburbs decades ago. I realize that Poggi is providing opportunities predominantly to kids with tremendous football ability, but he is doing SOMETHING. Those kids have a better chance with him than they would have had without him.
I'm fine with him spending his family wealth while those with even more money whine about Maryland state and local taxes and do nothing to help the City of Baltimore or the people of Baltimore.
