The school announced Broadway’s retirement Monday and promoted assistant Sam Washington to head coach. Washington had served as assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and secondary coach.
The Aggies (12-0) won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title, the Celebration Bowl and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) national championship in 2017.
North Carolina A&T set a school record for wins this season and became the first unbeaten team in MEAC history.
The 62-year-old Broadway went 57-22 with the Aggies and was 125-45 overall, including stints at North Carolina Central (2003-06) and Grambling State (2007-10). He guided all three programs to HBCU national titles, with this season’s crown his second at North Carolina A&T and fourth overall.
Broadway spent seven seasons as the Aggies’ head coach and also won the HBCU national title there in 2015.
Broadway will serve as a special assistant to athletic director Earl M. Hilton III for six months.
“While we are losing one of the greatest coaches of all time, I love that he gets to go out on his own terms, a luxury not afforded to most coaches,” Hilton said. “He took our football program from being the laughingstock of the [FCS] to being the envy of black college football and one of the premier programs on the FCS level. He did it with class and intelligence.”
