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MIAMI -- Indianapolis Colts coach Jim Caldwell has earned widespread praise for getting his team to the Super Bowl in his first season as an NFL head coach. But the last time Caldwell was a head coach, he earned widespread scorn.Caldwell was the head coach at Wake Forest from 1993 to 2000, and his teams were, frankly, terrible: After inheriting a team coming off an 8-4 record and a victory in the Independence Bowl in 1992, Caldwell's Demon Deacons plummeted to 2-9. In eight seasons at Wake, he had a combined record of 26-63 that included a 1-10 season, two 2-9 seasons and three 3-8 seasons.
But at Super Bowl Media Day, Caldwell had nothing but positive things to say about his experience at Wake.
"I was 38 years old," Caldwell said. "It was my first opportunity in Division I football. ... It gave me an opportunity to come in and run my own program. It was maybe one of the greatest experiences of my life."
After Wake Forest fired Caldwell, Tony Dungy hired him to be an assistant coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2001. A year later, Dungy brought Caldwell with him to Indianapolis, where Caldwell would become the head coach following Dungy's retirement after the 2008 season.
But as much as Caldwell credits Dungy for helping his career along, he also credits those eight seasons at Wake Forest -- no matter how unsuccessful they were."I had an opportunity to test myself and you find out a lot about yourself in those situations," Caldwell said. "It tests your leadership skills. You have an opportunity to hone those. You establish your own voice. You have to deal with so many different varied experiences from different young men from different backgrounds. It creates an atmosphere where I think it was beneficial to me at least particularly in relationship to where I'm sitting now."
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