University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's basketball coach Will Wade is no longer a candidate for the head position at UNC Charlotte, a source confirmed to the Times Free Press Friday morning.
The second-year Mocs coach has been linked to the Charlotte job since the university and head coach Alan Major parted ways after the 2014-15 season. The Charlotte Observer reported earlier this week that Wade was going to meet with the university's administration Thursday.
Wade currently makes $187,000 per year at UTC. There would have been a significant bump in his pay had he left for Charlotte, as Major's contract guaranteed him $450,000 per year, and there were incentives in it that could have boosted his pay to more than $600,000.
When Wade was reached Friday morning, he had no comment.
The 49ers compete in Conference USA, which like the Southern Conference had only one team selected for the NCAA tournament -- Alabama-Birmingham, which made it only by winning the conference tournament.
The Mocs defeated UAB 83-67 on Dec. 22.
The 32-year-old Wade is 40-25 in two seasons as the head coach for the Mocs. They went 22-10 this year, including a 15-3 mark in conference play, good for second, but their season came to a disappointing conclusion in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament when they fell to 10th-seeded Furman 69-67.
The Mocs will return 77 percent of their scoring and 78 percent of their rebounding for the 2015-16 season.
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