Duke began fall practice August 2 and David Cutcliffe began his 12th season as Duke’s head coach. With the retirement of Paul Johnson at Georgia Tech Cutcliffe is the ACC’s longest-tenured head football coach.
How time flies. Twelve years is a lifetime in this business and Cutcliffe counts his blessings.
Cutcliffe was asked if being the veteran in the room was a good thing or a bad thing.
“It is great,” he responded. “Any coach who would answer than differently is a fool. It’s the hardest thing to do in our profession, is to stay at one place for very long.