A nice piece about the son of the coach
In that win over Arizona State, Caldwell, who was a redshirt sophomore wide receiver, caught a 56-yard touchdown pass. But after the next season, when the Deacons went 2-9, Jim Caldwell was fired and his son was one of the first to hear the news.
“As it happened, he had just come out of Ron (Wellman’s) office and I was walking across the street heading to study hall and Dad called me over,” said Caldwell, who graduated from Wake Forest in 2001.
Shortly after that, Jim Caldwell became an assistant in the NFL, working for Tony Dungy. He spent a season with Dungy in Tampa Bay, then went with Dungy to Indianapolis in 2002.
Jim Caldwell eventually was the coach-in-waiting to replace Dungy, and, when Dungy retired after last season, he was named head coach.
“He’s always told us you are going to have ups and downs in life, and you have to have confidence and the capability to bounce back,” Caldwell said about his father.
“It’s a great life lesson that we’ve all witnessed as a family.”
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