Will Healy completed his fifth season as a head coach in 2020.
Healy is 9–10 (7-5 C-USA) in two seasons at Charlotte. He was 13–21 in three years at Austin Peay.
The Chattanooga, Tennessee native served as an assistant at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga between 2009–15.
Healy played collegiately as a quarterback for Dave Clawson at Richmond.
He joined the show “Tennessee Two-A-Days” to discuss his offensive philosophies.
“Running the football is something I believe in,” Healy said. “I’m a big advocate in doing things on offense that help us on defense.
“I’m on advocate of running the quarterback, some of the zone-read, power-read, counter-read type run schemes, but making sure we have a back that can get us the tough yardage and keeps the chains moving and the clock running.”
Healy discussed how his offense can be efficient with balance and that his offensive philosophies within a game can be versatile to what defenses are giving his personnel.
“To me, balance is efficiency, so I don’t think balance is throwing it 40 times or running it 40 times, I think it’s making sure that when we are throwing the football, we are efficient and are creating explosive plays and getting the ball in the hands of our playmakers,” Healy said. “That 20-25 times a game is something that I would like to make a living on. I think that run-to-pass, as far as, if you play 80 snaps in a game, I’m thinking run it 55, throw it 25.
“The difference with us is, a lot of the RPO stuff we’re doing, it could be either. That’s where it’s kind of what the defense is giving us and it may end up being a run or it could be the quarterback pulling it and throwing the ball to the perimeter. A lot is based on where the read takes us and what the defense is giving us. We are not a ton of drop back pass. We are not going to try and run as many plays as possible in a game. I don’t feel like that helps you when you practice against each other as often as we do. We have the ability to change it up, but it is not necessarily our staple.”
The entire show with Healy can be listened to here or below.
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