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David Cutcliffe will kick off his third season at Duke with a Sept. 4 home game against in-state FCS squad Elon, the school announced yesterday. The Phoenix finished last year with 9-3 and in the FCS Top 10, where it was joined by Richmond, the FCS team that spoiled the Blue Devils’ 2009 opener in [...]
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Duke fell short of qualifying for a bowl game this year, but that didn’t stop the Blue Devils from pocketing a nice chunk of change from bowl season.
Seven ACC teams qualified for bowls, and the league generated $28.85 million in revenue from those games, according to the Triangle Business Journal.
After reimbursing schools that played in [...]
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UPDATE, 11 a.m. | The David Cutcliffe Era will extend into at least a third season after Duke’s head coach rejected overtures from the University of Tennessee and decided to remain with the Blue Devils.
Cutcliffe, a former Tennessee assistant, was reported to be in serious talks with Tennessee throughout Thursday and was [...]
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Neither Tennessee nor a search firm had contacted Duke to talk with head coach David Cutcliffe as of Wednesday evening, Art Chase, Duke’s sports information director, told The Chronicle.
Multiple media outlets and reporters have speculated that Cutcliffe, Tennessee’s former offensive coordinator, could be a potential candidate to replace Lane Kiffin, who bolted to become the head [...]
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With the news that Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin is bolting for USC, you had to believe that former Vols offensive coordinator (and curent Duke head coach) David Cutcliffe’s name would surface in rumors.
And, predictably, Cutcliffe’s name has blown up on Twitter. (Note: That might be an overstatement, but we’re talking about Duke Football, so [...]
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This is the tenth and final post in a series of Duke’s All-Decade teams, as named by various Chronicle writers, past and present. At the end of the series, you will be able to vote for your own All-Decade team, and your votes will determine The Sports Blog’s final choice. Stay tuned over the next [...]
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It’s finally official on Duke’s end: Jim Knowles, formerly Cornell’s head coach, will join David Cutcliffe’s staff as a co-defensive coordinator, the program announced Monday.
Knowles replaces Mike MacIntyre, who left to become head coach at San Jose State, while Marion Hobby, his co-defensive coordinator, has also been promoted to assistant head coach. Knowles will focus [...]
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This is the sixth in a series of Duke’s All-Decade teams, as named by various Chronicle writers, past and present. At the end of the series, you will be able to vote for your own All-Decade team, and your votes will determine The Sports Blog’s final choice. Stay tuned over the next two weeks for [...]
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This is the sixth in a series of Duke’s All-Decade teams, as named by various Chronicle writers, past and present. At the end of the series, you will be able to vote for your own All-Decade team, and your votes will determine The Sports Blog’s final choice. Stay tuned over the next two weeks for [...]
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Cornell head coach Jim Knowles will leave his alma mater to become the new defensive coordinator at Duke, multiple Ithaca newspapers reported Wednesday. He will replace Mike MacIntyre, who recently left Duke to take the head man’s job at San Jose State.
Knowles, the head coach at Cornell since 2004, told the Press & Sun [...]
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