Report: Parcells staying with Dolphins

Jan 4, 2009 - 10:12 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (Ticker) -- Bill Parcells is staying put in South Florida.

Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga told the Sun-Sentinel that Parcells will remain in his role as the team's executive vice president of football operations.

"Bill's going to stay," Huizenga said. "He told me (Friday) he's going to stay. He said he likes it here."

Although Parcells just completed the first of a four-year contract with Miami, he had an opt-out clause that would allow him to leave after one season while still getting paid the entire $12 million left on his contract if the team was sold.

Huizenga's sale of the team to billionaire Stephen Ross is near completion, upon which Parcells will have 30 days to exercise the opt-out clause.

Parcells signed a four-year contract worth $16 million in December 2008 to revive the Dolphins, who went a league-worst 1-15 last season.

Miami became the first one-win team to register 10 victories the following season en route to capturing the AFC East title with an 11-5 mark. The Dolphins lost to the Baltimore Ravens, 27-9, in a wild-card game Sunday.

Parcells, who won two Super Bowls with the New York Giants, has a history of turning around franchises, taking bedraggled teams in New England, the New York Jets and Dallas and turning them into winners.

Aside from the Giants, Parcells never has stayed with another organization for more than four years.