Knoxville News-Sentinel-TN set to hire David Cutcliffe

Tennessee Set to Hire David Cutcliffe

January 14, 2010 by admin
Filed under Coaching Scoop, Featured


Duke head coach David Cutcliffe will be named Tennessee’s next head coach barring a last-second snag in negotiations, a source told the News Sentinel. UT athletic director Mike Hamilton declined to confirm or deny an agreement with Cutcliffe, who was an assistant coach at UT from 1983-98 and from 2006-07. Hamilton said only that UT was still in the interviewing process. One issue between the two parties is Cutcliffe’s staff. Cutcliffe, who has spent the last two seasons at Duke, would like to bring many of his coaches to Knoxville with him, but the Vols still have six coaches leftover from the staff assembled by Lane Kiffin, who left UT to become the head coach at Southern California on Tuesday. Cutcliffe’s staff is expected to include former UT running backs coach Kurt Roper, who has been Duke’s offensive coordinator under Cutcliffe. UT interim head coach Kippy Brown is also expected to be retained as receivers coach. Hamilton said Brown was a candidate for the head coaching job, but Brown seemed open to working under Cutcliffe. – Knoxville News-Sentinel