Just to be clear, I am not rooting for Healy to leave or for another school to get him. My point is Healy is already getting this kind of interest after one year. I donāt see that interest subsiding if he continues to win. NWA is right, he is getting a lot of interest based on the fact that he is not the typical coach (one of the reasons we love him).
Iād up him to Houston level With a much better buyout and see where it goes.
Bingo. The reports of what we were prepared to pay Houston shows what weāre capable of.
When Houston shopped those numbers and burned us, we took a big risk on a coach who had not yet proven himself, and we paid accordingly.
After year one, heās proven that he was at least worth that risk. We might not need to up him to 1.2, but Iād say heās earned a bump to something in between that and his current salary.
If it were my show, Iād offer 750k plus a hefty addition to his assistant coaching budget, up that buyout substantially, and go from there.
One thing Iād be firm on is a clause in the buyout that requires the program that hires him away play us home-and-home with NO option to buy out of the game in Charlotte. If an SEC school takes him, I want him to bring that team to The Rich. I donāt think that would scare bigger fish away enough to make him not want to sign, but we all know a Tennessee or Ole Miss would try to weasel their way out of that game here if it werenāt ironclad.
Whatās wrong with waiting a month or or even 6, he already said heās not leaving.
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No he didnāt. He said thereās nothing to report.
Nothing to report means thereās no offer. He did not say heās not interested or not interviewing or definitely staying.
Just that thereās nothing to report.
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Okā¦well then.
Nevermind
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He didnāt say either of those things. Hereās the direct quote:
āIām all Niner.ā
That neither means he isnāt looking or that he has been spoken to. At this momentā¦THIS MOMENTā¦he is āAll Ninerā.
Tomorrowā¦
After the bowl gameā¦
We just donāt know.
Unfortunately he didnāt say āfor the 2020 seasonā at the end of that statement.
If a P5 backs a Brinks Truck up to his house I fully expect him to leave and wouldnāt blame him. He has a wife and two sons to think about before us.
Hill is smart enough to increase the buyout dramatically.
Also, if Healy doesnāt win the Bowl game the new shiny object loses a lot of luster.
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I would think him saying he was staying either means he wants to up the pressure on any other schools looking at him, or his agent and Hill are near a new contract.
I would be shocked if Healy screws us like Houston does. Everything heās shown us so far says heās a man of his word, if he was thinking about leaving i donāt think he would be creating the narrative heās staying (telling the team heās staying, the reporter heās all Niner, etc)
My thought is heās working on a new contract with Hill and that heās optimistic heās not going anywhere.
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Or he is just staying lol. Think we are looking too much into this. He will be our coach next year. Period.
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Charlotte is a great place to be , everybody is acting like coach is looking for a reason to leave. Heās not working for minimum wage here either & im sure heās going to get a raise. Him & mike hill seem to have a great relationship also. I think itās good for a couple more years.
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Letās let Mike Hill handle this! He knows what heās doing.
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I assume heās talking about upping his salary, since the other way that could be taken is the way a mob boss would say it.
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Let that be a warning to future coaches 
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Either way, heās not going anywhere.
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Thatās one way of looking at it haha.