BOULDER — There's no way Colorado Athletic Director Rick George could have known last February that a pandemic was about to shut down the entire college sports world.
But now, roughly nine months after George introduced Karl Dorrell as the Buffaloes' new football coach on Feb. 23, George is quite certain about one thing:
His coaching search yielded the perfect man for the Buffs in an unprecedented time. Dorrell not only brought an immediate measure of stability and trust to the program, his calm-but-focused demeanor became a critical factor in guiding CU through pandemic ups and downs.