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How fate, and a phone call, brought Karl Dorrell and CU Buffs together

BOULDER — Rick George has gotten the usual backlash from the doubters, the dissenters, the underwhelmed, the NeverKarls. Then again, he heard the same song and dance about 14 months ago.

“What I would say is, ‘Trust me,’” George, CU’s athletic director, said Monday after a news conference in which Karl Dorrell was formally introduced as the 27th full-time coach in Buffs history.

“You know, when we hired Mel Tucker, there were a lot of people that had that same reaction: ‘Who is this guy? He’s a defensive coordinator, he’s never been a head coach.’ I get it … it’s kind of like what Karl said: ‘You know when you know.