Indianapolis Colts Coach Tony Dungy, who last year became the first black head coach to win a Super Bowl, will coach at least one more season before retiring, he announced Monday.
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Dungy, 52, has long said he did not consider himself a football lifer, and he has pondered retirement after each of the past few seasons. He is signed through 2009 and Caldwell recently signed a contract extension with the promise that he would be the next Colts coach. In the past Dungy has said he may start a prison ministry when he is finished with football. After last season, he wrote a best-selling book.
In an unusual move, the Colts have already decided on his successor: Jim Caldwell, Dungy’s assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach.
Caldwell has coached with Dungy for six years in Indianapolis and one year in Tampa Bay and has helped guide one of the N.F.L.’s most consistently prolific offenses. Caldwell, 53, was the head coach at Wake Forest from 1993 to 2000.
Dungy, 52, has long said he did not consider himself a football lifer, and he has pondered retirement after each of the past few seasons. He is signed through 2009 and Caldwell recently signed a contract extension with the promise that he would be the next Colts coach. In the past Dungy has said he may start a prison ministry when he is finished with football. After last season, he wrote a best-selling book.
In an unusual move, the Colts have already decided on his successor: Jim Caldwell, Dungy’s assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach.
Caldwell has coached with Dungy for six years in Indianapolis and one year in Tampa Bay and has helped guide one of the N.F.L.’s most consistently prolific offenses. Caldwell, 53, was the head coach at Wake Forest from 1993 to 2000.