Courtesy Dalton State College
SALT LAKE CITY — Tony Ingle, the longtime college basketball coach, recently announced his retirement, which means he will end his career where it started — at Dalton (Georgia) State in his hometown of the same name. He leaves the game having fulfilled his ambition to win a national championship while also making people laugh along the way with his gift of gab, his homespun wisdom and his endless one-liners.
By any measure he was a successful coach — a three-time national Coach of the Year Award winner whose teams won two small-college national championships — but Ingle fell short of achieving one personal goal.