CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Charlotte 49ers fired their former boy wonder head coach Sunday, adding to a remarkably bad year among prominent head coaches in Charlotte.
Will Healy’s fourth Charlotte team had started 1-7 and is widely considered one of the worst squads in college football this season. So his dismissal wasn’t an enormous surprise. And in this city, in 2022, it’s even less of a shock given the way this year has gone.
In the past six months, Healy is the fourth well-known head coach to get a pink slip in Charlotte, joining James Borrego (Charlotte Hornets, in April), Miguel Angel Ramirez (Charlotte FC, in May) and Matt Rhule (Carolina Panthers, in October). It’s been a seismic change at the top of the city’s sports scene, especially when you include Davidson basketball coach Bob McKillop, who retired on his own terms this summer but was a legend at that school for 33 years.
