David Cutcliffe made a name for himself in college football by studying the habits of coaching greats that came before him, like Paul “Bear” Bryant and Johnny Majors. Duke’s head football coach now enters the 36th year of a journey that started during one of the darkest moments in his life.
As fate would have it, football became an outlet for Cutcliffe after his father, Raymond, died in a car crash when he was 15. He would play to overcome the pain and turned the knowledge he gathered on the field into a career of roaming the sidelines in the southeast region of the country.