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David Cutcliffe (born September 16, 1954) is the offensive coordinator for the University of Tennessee Volunteers and the former head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels. He is best-known for coaching Peyton Manning at Tennessee and Eli Manning at Ole Miss and for producing record setting offenses at both schools. Almost all offensive records at both schools were set during Cutcliffe's time as coach. As a head coach, he had compiled a career record of 44-29.

Cutcliffe was fired by Ole Miss Athletic Director Pete Boone in December 2004 after Cutcliffe refused to fire his assistant coaches. Boone had asked Cutcliffe to make changes to his coaching staff after a year of poor performance on the field. Cutcliffe refused, leaving Boone no choice but to fire the coach. Cutcliffe had guided Ole Miss to its most successful six year period since legendary coach Johnny Vaught walked the sidelines, but was only able to accomplish one New Year's Day bowl game with a Manning, and Ole Miss remained the only program in the SEC Western Division to never achieve a berth in the SEC championship football game, held every December in Atlanta. He was hired as offensive coordinator at Notre Dame, but health problems forced him to resign. He returned to Knoxville, where he had coached Tennessee's offense during the 1990s and where his son, Chris Cutcliffe, attends college. After Phillip Fulmer fired offensive coordinator Randy Sanders, he hired Cutcliffe, who ironically was Sanders's predecessor at Tennessee.

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