1982-1998 Tennessee (Assistant Coach)
1998-2004 Mississippi (Head Coach)
2005 Hired as Notre Dame Assistant (resigned prior to season; health)
2006-2007 Tennessee (Offensive Coordinator)
Duke's hiring of David Cutcliffe shows that they are serious about football. He comes to Duke as one of the premier offensive minds in the college game. His resume's high points are without question his mentoring of Peyton Manning at Tennessee and his brother Eli at Ole Miss. During his stints at Tennessee he has been the driving force of high powered passing oriented offenses. His peak came after Peyton Manning was gone and he coached on the National Championship winning Vols' squad. He was given the Frank Broyles award for top assistant coach in the country in 1998.
Cutcliffe's only head coaching stint came back in 1999-2004 where he took over after Tommy Tubberville's departure to Auburn at the end of the '99 season. During his time there, Cutcliffe lead Ole Miss to an overall 44-29 including 5 winning seasons. In 2003 he was named SEC coach of the year after his career best 10-3 record as head coach. After his one losing season at Ole Miss, Cutcliffe was told to address the defensive problems on his team including firing some on his defensive coaching staff. Cutcliffe refused and he was consequentially fired.
Cutcliffe re-emerged at Notre Dame as an assistant coach and most recently was the offensive coordinator at Tennessee. Cutcliffe will be going head to head with Butch Davis at North Carolina to see who can bring life to otherwise dead in-state programs. One major question that emerges about Cutcliffe is how long he would plan to stay at Duke if he were to receive a better offer elsewhere. Cutcliffe is more than likely the most impressive hire made by a school this offseason. Duke did a great job to bring him back into the head coaching role.
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