First-year Georgia State head coach Dell McGee continues to assemble his debut staff in Atlanta as per several reports, McGee is set to name Will Healy as the Panthers’ running backs coach – giving him an assistant with head coaching experience.
The 39-year-old Healy spent last season as an assistant head coach/special assistant to the head coach for Gus Malzahn at UCF and prior to his one-year stint in Orlando was head coach at Charlotte from 2019-2022.
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Healy guided the 49ers to the program’s first-ever bowl game in 2019, ending that season with a 7-6 record but struggled to maintain consistency, going 8-18 in the next two-and-a-half seasons and was relieved of his duties eight games into the 2022 season.
Prior to Charlotte, Healy was the head coach at Austin Peay, where he was one of the youngest head coaches in college football at 31 years old and lead the Governors to a 13-21 record over three seasons. Healy won the Eddie Robinson Award in 2017, awarded to the coach of the year in FCS.
The Chattanooga, Tennessee native has strong recruiting ties throughout the Southeast and began his coaching career in 2009, coaching quarterbacks and then receivers at UT-Chattanooga from 2009-2015. McGee has already named veteran coach Jim Chaney as his offensive coordinator and Kevin Sherrer, both of whom are coming off stints in the Peach State with Chaney coming from Georgia and Sherrer coming from Georgia Tech.
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