Posts tagged as:
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 [...]
{ 0 comments }
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 [...]
{ 0 comments }
Chase Olivieri/Chronicle File Photo
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 [...]
{ 2 comments }
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 [...]
{ 3 comments }
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 [...]
{ 5 comments }
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 [...]
{ 0 comments }
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 [...]
{ 4 comments }
Duke defensive coordinator Mike MacIntyre, the the AFCA’s 2009 assistant coach of the year, was announced as San Jose State’s head coach Wednesday. He will be formally introduced in a news conference on Thursday. MacIntyre served two seasons under head coach David Cutcliffe, whom he also worked with at Ole Miss.
By all means, MacIntyre has [...]
{ 2 comments }
In his second year on the Duke sidelines, David Cutcliffe led the Blue Devils to a 5-7 season—but once again, Georgia Tech’s Paul Johnson, also in his second year in Atlanta, earned ACC Coach of the Year honors Tuesday. Cutcliffe finished third for the second consecutive year, coming in with four of 40 votes, behind [...]
{ 0 comments }
Duke 34, Wake Forest 45 (2:30 4th): Maggio’s kick goes out of bounds, and that (I’m serious this time… I think) should actually do it.
Duke 34, Wake Forest 45 (2:31 4th): Scratch that… have to give the Blue Devils credit for not giving up here. Varner takes the drag route into the endzone, and Duke [...]
{ 0 comments }
