Will Healy
Will Healy went 38–52 as a head coach, 2016–2026, at Austin Peay, Charlotte and East Tennessee State. Share
Five seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 2016–18 at Austin Peay; 2025–26 at East Tennessee State. They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 38–52 career
- Seasons
- 9
- Schools
- 3
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Jan 16, 1985
- Alma mater
- Richmond 2008
- Best season
- 2019 7–6
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Austin Peay * | 0–11 | 9th | |||
| 2017 | Austin Peay * | 8–4 | 2nd | |||
| 2018 | Austin Peay * | 5–6 | T–6th | |||
| 2019 | Charlotte | 7–6 | 4th (East) | Bahamas Bowl L | ||
| 2020 | Charlotte | 2–4 | 4th (East) | |||
| 2021 | Charlotte | 5–7 | T–5th (East) | |||
| 2022 | Charlotte coached eight of 12 games | 1–7 | ||||
| 2023–24: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2025 | East Tennessee State * | 7–5 | T–3rd | |||
| 2026 | East Tennessee State * | 3–2 | ||||
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against top-10 teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Conference games | 24 | 10–14 | 42% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 8 | 6–2 | 75% |
| At home | 18 | 10–8 | 56% |
| On the road | 20 | 5–15 | 25% |
| At neutral sites | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 15 | 11–4 | 73% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 24 | 4–20 | 17% |
His own 39 games on file, 2019–2022, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dana Dimel 2019–2022 | 2–1 | UTEP | 3 | |
| Tyson Helton 2019–2021 | 0–3 | Western Kentucky | 3 | |
| Willie Taggart 2020–2022 | 0–3 | Florida Atlantic | 3 |
Will Healy’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Florida Atlanticseries | 4 | 0–4 |
| UTEPseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Florida Internationalseries | 3 | 1–2 |
| Western Kentuckyseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| North Texasseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Gardner-Webbseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Middle Tennesseeseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Dukeseries | 2 | 1–1 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009–15 | Chattanooga | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2016–18 | Austin Peay | Head coach | |
| 2019–22 | Charlotte | Head coach | |
| 2023 | UCF | Assistant head coach, offensive assistant and adv. | |
| 2024 | Georgia State | Assistant head coach and running backs coach | |
| 2025–present | East Tennessee State | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Russ HuesmanChattanooga
- Gus MalzahnUCF
- Dell McGeeGeorgia State
Assistants who became head coaches
- Mark CarneyKent State
- Peter RossomandoCharlotte, New Haven, Central Connecticut, Lamar
- Chad StaggsCoastal Carolina
- J.C. PriceVirginia Tech
Worked under (3)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russ Huesman | Chattanooga | 2009–15 | Wide receivers coach | |
| Gus Malzahn | UCF | 2023 | Assistant head coach, offensive assistant and adv. | |
| Dell McGee | Georgia State | 2024 | Assistant head coach and running backs coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (4)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Carney | Charlotte, 2019: quarterbacks coach; 2020–22: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Kent State | |
| Peter Rossomando | Charlotte, 2021–22: offensive line coach | Charlotte, New Haven, Central Connecticut, Lamar | |
| Chad Staggs | East Tennessee State, 2025–26: defensive coordinator | Coastal Carolina | |
| J.C. Price | East Tennessee State, 2026: defensive line coach | Virginia Tech |
Other assistants under him (7)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Marcus West | Austin Peay, 2016–17: assistant head coach, co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach; Charlotte, 2019–21: assistant head coach, co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach | |
| Maxwell Thurmond | Austin Peay, 2016–17: special teams and linebackers coach; Charlotte, 2019: special teams and linebackers coach | |
| Alex Atkins | Charlotte, 2019: offensive coordinator and offensive line coach | |
| Brandon Cooper | Charlotte, 2019–21: co-defensive coordinator | |
| Joe Cox | Charlotte, 2021: tight ends coach | |
| Brian Baker | Charlotte, 2022: defensive line coach | |
| Greg Brown | Charlotte, 2022: defensive coordinator |
From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.
How he coached
Healy’s teams went for it on 31% of fourth downs and on 51% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 46% of plays and took 28.3 seconds a play, 2019–2021.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 13 g | 24 of 85 28% | 50% | 41% | 29.1 | +0.11 | |
| 2020 6 g | 10 of 47 21% | 36% | 47% | 29.0 | −0.02 | |
| 2021 12 g | 35 of 90 39% | 59% | 51% | 27.1 | +0.10 | |
| All 31 g | 69 of 222 31% | 51% | 46% | 28.3 | +0.08 |
His seasons as a head coach from 2004 on, from ESPN’s play by play: fourth downs where he went for it out of every fourth-down decision; how often he went when SportsDataverse’s fourth-down model said going for it was the better call; the share of his offense’s plays that were passes; seconds of game clock per offensive play (lower is faster); and expected points added per offensive play (EPA, a measure of how much each play moved the offense toward points). The season in progress counts its games so far. SportsDataverse’s coach tendencies, from ESPN’s play by play; the EPA and the fourth-down model are SportsDataverse’s.