Cbssports.com national columnist Gregg Doyel posted a piece on Wake Forest’s Jim Grobe this morning, but if you scroll down, you’ll notice a nice sidebar about Duke’s own David Cutcliffe in which Doyel calls the coach the best hire of the offseason.
The lede? How about…
Speaking of strange sights … what is David Cutcliffe doing at Duke?
…follow that with…
The Wake Forest job is hard. Duke is impossible. And Cutcliffe wasn’t desperate.
…add the zinger…
This man has a large resume. Duke has a miniature football program. Why would he go there?
…and you’ve got yourself a story we might be reading in about 100 different permutations once football season starts, particularly if that season includes wins. Whatever the results, though, Cutcliffe has made Duke Football into a national story, and not just because of Steve Spurrier’s annual farce of a top-25 vote.
–by Meredith Shiner
