The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be David Cutcliffe, Head Football Coach at Duke University. the 2013 National Coach of the Year who has earned both ACC and SEC Coach of the Year honors in a distinguished career that includes the mentoring of Super Bowl MVP quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning, was named Duke University’s 21st head football coach on December 15, 2007.
Cutcliffe is 52-61 (.460) in nine seasons at Duke and owns an overall head coaching ledger of 96-90 (.603). Cutcliffe’s 52 victories in nine years with the Blue Devils are 42 more than the program’s total in the previous eight seasons (2000-07) combined.
Highlights from the last five years include the program’s first bowl victory since 1961, an NFL first round draft pick pick in Laken Tomlinson (2014), an eight-game winning streak in 2013 (Duke’s longest since 1941), the program’s first appearance in the BCS standings in 2013 and in the College Football Playoff rankings in 2014 and final national rankings in both polls in 2013 (22nd by USA Today/Coaches & 23rd by Associated Press) to mark Duke’s first showing in a final poll since 1962. Cutcliffe directed the 2013 Blue Devils to a school record four fourth quarter victories as well as, for the first time since 1971, two wins over nationally-ranked opponents. A year later, Cutcliffe had Duke as high as No. 19 in both the USA Today and Associated Press polls, its highest AP ranking since November 12, 1994. Duke also won two or more games as a ranked team in consecutive years for the first time since the 1954-55 seasons.
A native of Birmingham, Ala., Cutcliffe graduated from the University of Alabama in 1976 and is a member of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2016. He got his start in coaching at Banks High School — his alma mater — and spent four years as an assistant coach before becoming the head coach in 1980.
Cutcliffe is married to the former Karen Oran, and they have four children (Chris, Marcus Hilliard, Katie [Kolls] & Emily), one daughter-in-law (Molly), one son-in-law (Chris Kolls) and six grandsons (Shivers, Bennett, Oliver, Campbell, Theodore & Cooper).
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6/6/18 – Scholar-Athlete Awards Night (5:30pm)
6/20/18 – Special Guest Speaker
7/4/18 – HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! CoaNO MEETING!