Colorado has fired head football coach Karl Dorrell just five games into his third season in Boulder, ending a tenure that had plunged the program into the depths of historic despair after starting off with a 4-0 record in 2020.
It also marks another low point for CU football, a former national heavyweight program that won a share of the national championship in January 1991, a Heisman Trophy in 1994 and a Big 12 Conference championship in 2001. After that, the Buffaloes have mostly struggled in the 21st century, especially since joining the Pac-12 Conference in 2011.
Another head coach, Mel Tucker, was hired to replace MacIntyre but only spent one season in Boulder in 2019 before leaving for Michigan State, which“It just worked out to be a perfect scenario for me,” he said later that year. Such departures added to the angst among CU fans and alumni, who had been largely underwhelmed by Dorrell’s hiring in 2020, even as they accepted it under the circumstances.
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