There aren’t many quarterback/coach relationships in football more famous than the one between David Cutcliffe and Peyton and Eli Manning.

Cutcliffe was Peyton’s offensive coordinator at Tennessee and Eli’s head coach at Ole Miss. The relationship between Peyton and Eli — which included the Manning brothers going to Duke during the offseason for years when Cutcliffe was the program’s head coach — is centered on a lot of trust that’s been built over the last 30-plus years.

Peyton and Eli, though, aren’t the only quarterbacks who built a significant amount of trust with Cutcliffe.

Former Volunteers quarterback Erik Ainge joined The Stingray Network recently and detailed how Cutcliffe also showed former Tennessee quarterback Jim Bob Cooter some of that same trust.

“We had a guy named Jim Bob Cooter,” said Ainge, who played at Tennessee from 2004 to 2007. “Jim Bob, he had a 35 on the ACT. His name is James Robert. He chose to go by Jim Bob to be a Tennessee hero. He was the smartest guy ever. He’s the only guy ever that David Cutcliffe, other than Eli or Peyton, ever gave the clicker to and left the meeting room. It was Peyton, Eli, and Jim Bob Cooter.”

Cutcliffe, Ainge, and Cooter were together at Tennessee in 2006 and 2007 (Cutcliffe’s second stint at UT).

After serving as a graduate assistant at Tennessee, Cooter joined Indianapolis Colts’ staff as an analyst. Cooter was with the Colts during Peyton’s last three seasons in Indianapolis. He was also an analyst with the Denver Broncos in 2013 during Peyton’s record-breaking season.

Jim Bob Cooter reveals how he feels about his famous name

Cooter is somewhat well known because of his name, and he recently explained how he feels about his unique name.

“I never got a great nickname [growing up], just because I guess Jim Bob was it,” said Cooter on NFL Spotlight With Ari Meirov. “But you play enough sports, you start going from town to town (and you get nicknames). I can remember, maybe some basketball games in junior high where the other fans started chanting maybe something not so nice. My name, it’s pretty catchy in chants, too. I think around that time when you’re growing up and you’re playing sports and you start to realize maybe it’s a little bit of a unique name. But I grew up in the South, I grew up in Tennessee.”

“I’ve just embraced it,” continued Cooter. “You’re a young kid playing sports and going to school and doing all of that stuff, and at a certain point you have aspirations to go play in college or whatever. Or maybe doing a little bit of recruiting stuff here and there, and that’s not bad if people remember your name. So I’ve always just embraced it. It is who I am. It’s what my family calls me. It’s what everybody’s called me.”