COLTS ADD TWO COACHES

By Colts.com
Friday, March 19 2010

Colts Add Assistants Ron Turner, Ron Prince to Coaching Staff

INDIANAPOLIS – The Indianapolis Colts announced the additions of two coaches on Friday, Wide Receivers Coach Ron Turner and Assistant Offensive Line Coach Ron Prince, while altering the titles of four others on the staff.

Tom Moore will hold the title of Senior Offensive Assistant, while Clyde Christensen has been promoted from Assistant Head Coach/Wide Receivers to Offensive Coordinator and Pete Metzelaars from Offensive Quality Control/Assistant Offensive Line to Offensive Line Coach. Jim Bob Cooter, who joined the Colts in 2009 as staff assistant, has been named Offensive Assistant.


Turner enters his 34th year of coaching and joins the club after serving five seasons as Offensive Coordinator for Chicago. He also was Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks for Chicago from 1993-96. Turner served as Head Coach at Illinois from 1997-2004, prior to his second stint with the Bears.


Prince, an 18-year coaching veteran who spent 2006-08 as Head Coach at Kansas State University, joins the Colts after spending 2009 at Virginia as Special Teams Coordinator. Prince also was Offensive Line Coach and later Offensive Coordinator at Virginia for five seasons prior to Kansas State.