Its an easy cop-out to marvel at the work that David Cutcliffe has done at Duke. But, man. It is amazing. After going 8-4 in Fred Goldsmith’s first year, 1994, Duke won a TOTAL of 22 games the next 13 years. Ted Roof won four games...in four years. Cutcliffe won as many in his first year, 2007, and after winning 5, 3, and 3, broke out in 2010: they’ve averaged 7.5 wins this decade.
We make fun of Cutcliffe for being old, but he’s only 63. He’s probably got a few good years left.
2017 Season
After a disappointing 4-8 2016 season, the Blue Devils bounced back to 7-6 on the strength of a September sweep of Central, Northwestern (who was ranked 17th at the time), Baylor, and Carolina.