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Colorado hires Karl Dorrell: Dig deep enough, and you can spot reasons it makes sense (but you have to really dig)

The Karl Dorrell hire has generated more shrugs than sizzle with many Colorado fans and in the media, and it’s difficult to envision an instant bump in CU season-ticket sales.

And the Hotline’s reaction, frankly, is essentially the same.

Dorrell, a Miami Dolphins assistant, wouldn’t have been on our list of 20 potential candidates to replace Mel Tucker.

(And if you had suggested his name for the 21st spot, we would have assumed it was in jest.)

Dorrell was an undistinguished head coach in his only previous tenure, which ended during the second Bush presidency.