BOULDER, Colo. (AP) The University of Colorado has reached into the NFL ranks again to find their head football coach, luring Karl Dorrell back to Boulder from the Miami Dolphins.
Athletic director Rich Geoge hired Dorrell on Sunday, two weeks after Mel Tucker bolted for Michigan State.
Tucker, who had a decade of experience in the NFL ranks, went 5-7 in his one season in Boulder after arriving from the University of Georgia.
George has asked the Board of Regents to approve a five-year contract for Dorrell worth $18 million plus incentives that includes a starting base salary of $3.2 million with annual increases of $200,000.
Also, George is proposing a salary pool of $3.8 million for assistant coaches, up from $3.155 million for Tucker’s staff.
Dorrell was the Dolphins’ receivers coach in 2019 and had recently been promoted to assistant head coach. He served as an assistant coach for the Buffaloes under head coaches Bill McCartney and Rich Neuheisel in the 1990s.
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