Student fees and donors. Regardless of what Money a sport generates you still
Have to pay market rate for a coach. There are plenty of other sports that produce almost zero revenue, yet get funded.
I donāt care who we bring in, as long as itās a guy thatās figured it out somewhere before, a la a P5 program. The AAC should be enough incentive for a coach wanting to show heās still got it. Healy needs to find his niche somewhere else. Like a smaller school. But the change needs to happen sooner rather than later.
Healy would make a great high school coach.
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Healy would do fine with anyone elseās players that need a little boost. I donāt think Lambert would have gone 7-6 with that team, but heās going to have to learn how to evaluate talent.
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And development it. I canāt really think of any player that has taken a leap during his tenure.
Lambert didnāt recruit the highest caliber of player and his in game coaching was poor, but he did seem to take some unknowns and develop them into quality players.
I havenāt seen any evidence of Healy doing that.
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Nailed it! This is one of several issues but it may be the biggest for Healy.
I think Healy is suffering from not being able to keep assistants on staff taking higher level positions. Heās heavily reliant on the team around him to be successful.
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What do you guys think of this coach?
East Carolina Pirates VS. Campbell Camels
SEPT. 17 6:00 PM ET, Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, Greenville, NC (ESPN+)
Line: ECU -30
What Campbell coach Mike Minter said about ECU:
On the matchup with ECU:
āWeāve got to get better and what better way of doing it than going to face these Pirates. They almost upset NC State, so Iām sure theyāre feeling good about themselves and what theyāre doing there. Coach Houston is a great coach and I know heās going to have them ready. They will not overlook us. He will have them ready to go. And we know that. Weāre looking forward to the challenge.ā
On the importance of having this game:
āAnytime youāre in-state and youāre playing somebody bigger than you - no different than when they play NC State - you have that type of energy. You know how big it is. Fifty, sixty percent of your roster is from North Carolina. They understand and they grew up watching East Carolina. Now you get a chance to go there and play them. Thatās not always the case when youāre at an FCS program. The great thing about North Carolina is weāve got a lot of universities in North Carolina. We get a chance to play these Pirates for the first time and itās going to be really good for recruiting. Weāre recruiting three- and four-stars. Iām sure East Carolina is doing the same. Itāll be fun to be able to get on the field with them.ā
On ECUās offense:
āFirst of all, we have to make sure No. 2 stays on the sideline. Fastest man in college football. OK, this dude is fast. He made NC Stateās linebackers - all potential draft picks in the NFL - he made them look like they were running in mud. This guy is unbelievable. We have to try and contain him. Heās the guy who can take the ball 80 at any moment. They have some great receivers, three of them. That makes it tough because you canāt just focus on one guy. Normally, teams in college have one guy. Not three. They have three dudes who can legitimately make plays on you. They have height, size and speed. Then they have tight ends. And when you have tight ends, like those two guys, that makes it tough. Thatās what makes them potent. Youāve got a great running back that can take it to the house. Youāve got great receivers that can run routes and get open, and use their size with fade balls and jump balls. Then people forget about No. 5 in the slot. This guy is probably the most explosive guy. He doesnāt have as many catches as the other two, but heās got eight targets and seven catches.
āSo you have to look at that offense and say, āIf Iām quarterbacking, Iām pretty good, too. I get to throw the ball to these guys and hand the ball off to 2.ā But heās smart. He knows how to play good football, heās got an arm, he knows the offense and he knows every defense. I think this is his fifth year or something like that. If I have five years in college, itās going to be pretty bad for everybody else. Thatās what youāre looking at in this offense. Iām sure coach is going to try to get him to run the ball. That running game has not been up to par, but itās because of who theyāve played. THeyāve played NC State and ODU, whoās great at stopping the run. Iām sure heās going into this week saying weāve got to run the ball guys. Thatās what Iād be saying if I was playing a D-II school. Weāve got to run the football on them, and establish this run.ā
On experiences with Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium:
āWell, Iāve never been there. I donāt know anything about it and Iāve never been to ECU. Iām sure itās going to be loud. I watched the game when they played NC State. Everybody showed up and they were all crazy. It looks like a crazy atmosphere when it comes to college football games. Iām sure the fans will come out and be loud. Itās a night game. Theyāre expected to have a great showing. This is what they do. I look forward to being in the stadium. I havenāt been to North Carolinaās stadium, NC Stateās stadium, or Dukeās stadium. Weāll go get to play these people and see all their stadiums. Then Iāll rank them and let you know.ā
What Mike Houston said about Campbell:
āWeāve already flipped the page and moved on to a very good Campbell team coming in here this weekend. They are an old team, with a lot of guys that have played a lot of snaps. They have a dynamic quarterback who had a great game in their opener and had a solid game last week. They return a massive offensive line and will be much bigger than we are when we take the field on Saturday. Their left tackle is a Senior Bowl watch list, transferred from Wake Forest and is a very good player. Their other tackle is equally as large and a solid player. Defensively they have the reigning Big South Player of the Year at defensive end, and a very solid unit there so itās a big challenge this weekend and a solid opponent. Weāve got to focus on getting better today. Weāve got to have a great practice today to start the week off with our preparations and be very sharp and really build towards Saturday. Looking forward to another home game, 6 p.m. kickoff, should be great weather on family weekend. I would anticipate that weāre going to have a large crowd and a full stadium on Saturday night. Itās great to be back at home again and great to be back in front of our crowd.ā
ON COMPARING CAMPBELLāS QUARTERBACK TO CHARLESTON SOUTHERNāS FROM LAST YEAR
āHeās a lot better player than Jack (Chambers) was. Heās bigger, heās probably more explosive. He probably throws it better in the pocket. They were 3-1 last year when he got injured. He missed the rest of the season. During the pandemic in 2020 one of the weekends where we were quarantined, I got a chance to watch them play Georgia Southern at Georgia Southern and he almost single-handedly beat Georgia Southern in that game. They went for two at the end, didnāt get it and ended up losing by one but just really stood out to me just how dynamic of an athlete he is. Itās certainly going to be a huge challenge Saturday.ā
ON THE DEPTH OF THE DEFENSIVE LINE AGAINST THE SIZE OF CAMPBELLāS OFFENSIVE LINE
āI think itās a strength. I think all those guys are playing well. It was great to see. Shaundre (Mims) had a great night the other night. He played the run very well, pressured the quarterback multiple times, had the strip sack that resulted in the fumble recovery by JD (Lampley) that set up Rahjaiās (Harris) touchdown there in the second half. Itās great to have a lot of guys playing at a high level. It allows us to stay fresh right there. Weāre going to need that on Saturday against a line of the size that Campbell has.ā
ON PREPARING FOR AN FCS TEAM AFTER HAVING BEEN AN FCS COACH
āTheyāre a good football team. I could not care less which classification we are and what they are. Theyāre a good football team. Thatās the big thing. Weāve got to have a great week of practice."
This is all laughable. So 
Hire Tom Knotts. He always recruited the Charlotte area wellā¦
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Ruffin McNeill?
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the more that i think about it, the more i love the idea of hiring skip holtz
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Yeah the more I think about it, the more I like that idea too. He could be exactly what we need heading into the AAC.
i mean, think about it:
at la tech, he had a winning record in every season except for 2013 (when he started) and 2021 (when he was eventually fired), made it to 7 bowl games in a row and won 6 of them in a row, and won his division 3 times.
he may not be the P5 retread everyone is hoping for but if heās hired, we should absolutely be excited about it.
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They beat Citadel but lost b to W&M.
Didnāt Healy try to get major applewhite as a assistant coach a couple years back?
Applewhite interviewed after Atkins left for OC.