Last week, the SEC announced that David Cutcliffe would be joining the conference. The former Ole Miss head coach will act as the special assistant to the commissioner for football relations.
Cutcliffe will be there to offer guidance in pretty much all football-related matters, working as a liaison between the SEC offices and the coaches. He was most recently the head coach at Duke, where he found quite a bit of success, especially relative to the Blue Devils’ standards in football.
Before his time on Tobacco Road, he was the head coach at Ole Miss for about half a decade, including during the Eli Manning years. Cutcliffe’s Ole Miss teams went 2-4 against LSU, but he did give the Rebels their first 10 win season after a long drought.
Cutcliffe was replaced by former LSU head coach [autotag]Ed Orgeron[/autotag] following the 2004 season.
He also spent a good chunk of SEC time at Tennessee, where he spent years on Phillip Fulmer’s staff and coached Eli’s older brother, Peyton.
Very few are respected as much as Cutcliffe in the coaching industry, so having him build relationships between the SEC’s coaches and the conference itself can only be a good thing. This is especially true in the modern era, where alignment within the conference is critical in the college football arms race.
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