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UVA Football: Catching up on old news involving Poindexter, Hagans

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Anthony Poindexter
Anthony Poindexter. Photo: Doug Murray/Icon Sportswire

This item, about the landing spots for former UVA Football standouts and assistant coaches Anthony Poindexter and Marques Hagans, doesn’t qualify as news, since I’m reporting here on happenings from a few weeks back now.

I just stumbled onto their whereabouts today, so, it’s news to me.

First, to Poindexter: he landed at Tennessee as the secondary coach/co-defensive coordinator, a similar position to the one that he’d had at Penn State under James Franklin, who was fired six games into the 2025 season, and is now the head coach at Virginia Tech.


ICYMI


Dex was safeties coach and co-DC at Penn State under Franklin.

He was hired at UT on Jan. 2.

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Marques Hagans. Photo: UVA Athletics

Hagans, the wide receivers coach at Penn State under Franklin, is now at Michigan as the assistant wide receivers coach, on the staff of new UM coach Kyle Whittingham.

Assistant wide receivers coach.

Ouch.

I still think of Hagans as a future P4 head coach.

Being an assistant position coach is a rebuilding job for Hagans.


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The offensive coordinator at Michigan is Jason Beck, who was the QB coach at Virginia from 2016-2021, on the staff of Bronco Mendenhall.

Nice of Beck to throw our guy a bone here.

The Hagans hire was made official on Jan. 1.

For my next trick, I’m just now learning that the Allies wrapped up World War II.

I should have something on that in the next few days.

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Chris Graham

Chris Graham

Chris Graham is the founder and editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1994 alum of the University of Virginia, Chris is the author and co-author of seven books, including Poverty of Imagination, a memoir published in 2019. For his commentaries on news, sports and politics, go to his YouTube page, TikTok, BlueSky, or subscribe to his Street Knowledge podcast. Email Chris at [email protected].

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