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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 2299876, member: 3609"] Yes, Cutcliffe is a superb coach. Peyton Manning is Exhibit A and Eli Manning is Exhibit B in testimony to that. However, SU faces a major handicap in copying the dook model in either football or basketball, for that matter. It does not have another school across town for its athletes to take a major number of credits at to stay eligible under a "consortium" agreement. Whenever dook plays North Carolina Central, it's something of an intrasquad game for Central. Vandy had a similar arrangement with Peabody Teachers College in the 70s (80s?). Vandy football improved to the point where one coach said in SI, "I don't know about Vanderbilt, but Peabody has a helluva football team this year." I'm not sure how much of that has gone away since Vanderbilt absorbed Peabody. I'm really waiting for the Raleigh News & Observer's expose on how many dook athletes really go to NCCU. [/QUOTE]