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-- One coaching icon will be on the sidelines for this game. Is the guy across from him a future icon?

Look, we're probably getting a bit ahead of ourselves if we're pronouncing Charlotte coach Will Healy destined for greatness.

He proved plenty in resuscitating Austin Peay's wreck of a program, and now he appears to have the 49ers on an upward trajectory. But he'd be the first to admit he still has plenty of work to do, plenty to learn.

But it's hard to walk away from an hour-plus conversation with him and not be thoroughly impressed.