Colorado hires Dorrell as coach

Colorado lured ex-UCLA coach Karl Dorrell back to Boulder from the Miami Dolphins to be the Buffaloes’ next football coach.

Dorrell was hired two weeks after Mel Tucker left Colorado for Michigan State and 72 hours after the Dolphins promoted Dorrell to assistant head coach.

Dorrell, 56, went 35-27 as coach at UCLA, his alma mater, from 2003 to 2007. He spent two previous stints in Boulder serving under coaches Bill McCartney and Rick Neuheisel in the 1990s.

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