Karl James Dorrell (born December 18, 1963) is an

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coach who was most recently the head coach at the

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. Dorrell most notably served as the head football coach of the

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(UCLA) from 2003 to 2007, compiling a record of 35–27. He led the

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to five bowl appearance in five seasons, but did not coach in the fifth after he was fired in December 2007. Dorrell was the first and only

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head football coach in UCLA's history to date. In 2020, Dorrell was hired as the new head coach of the

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. In his first season at CU, he was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year. In 2022, Dorrell was fired after an 0–5 start to the season, with 4 consecutive 25+ point losses, being named the worst start to college football season in 65 years.

Early life and playing career

Karl attended

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in La Mesa, California, where he played football. He was a two-time all-league selection and an honorable mention All-American as a senior. He led Helix to the

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San Diego Section second place in 1981. Karl went on to play football at

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, earning four varsity letters in football. He was one of the most successful wide receivers at UCLA with 1,517 receiving yards on 108 receptions. He suffered a shoulder injury in 1984 and was granted an extra year of eligibility by the

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. He played on a team that won the Rose Bowl in 1983, 1984, and 1986, and that won the Freedom Bowl in 1986. During the 1983 season, he was a teammate of quarterback

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, who would be his eventual successor as UCLA head coach. He caught touchdowns from Neuheisel during the season, including two in the

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dubbed "Hail Mary, and in your face." On the last play of the first half, UCLA quarterback Matt Stevens faked a kneeldown, then pulled up and threw a Hail Mary pass, which was tipped into the hands of the flanker, Dorrell, to put the Bruins up 31–0 at the half. They would go on to win 45–20. He had a brief career as a player in the NFL with the

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in the 1987 season, but he was placed on the injured reserve.

Coaching career

Assistant coach

Dorrell's first job as a coach was in 1988, as a graduate assistant for

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at UCLA. That season the Bruins finished the season with a record of 10-2 and defeated the

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in the

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. In 1989, he became a wide receivers coach at UCF. In 1990 and 1991 he was the offensive coordinator and receivers coach at

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. Under his tutelage, the NAU offense set a school record with 255 first downs in 1991, amassing the second-most total offense (4,539 yards) in a season. From 1992 to 1993, Dorrell coached wide receivers at

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. In his first year with the Buffaloes, two of his receivers, Charles Johnson and

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, became just the fourth pair of receivers on the same team in NCAA history to each have over 1,000 receiving yards. He then served as wide receivers coach at

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in 1994 before returning to Colorado when they hired his former UCLA teammate, Rick Neuheisel, as their head coach. This time, he would serve as wide receivers coach and offensive coordinator from 1995 to 1998. When Neuheisel left Colorado for

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, he brought four assistant coaches with him – including Dorrell, who served as the Huskies' offensive coordinator and receivers coach in 1999. In both 1993 and 1999, Dorrell was a recipient of

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Minority Coaching Fellowships, which allowed him to spend time in the Broncos' training camp. He would return to the team in 2000 to serve as the receivers coach under head coach

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He held this position for three years, coaching players like Rod Smith, a two-time selection to the NFL's

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, and

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, a one time Pro Bowl selection. With the help of Dorrell, Smith and McCaffrey became only the second wide receiver duo to each catch 100 passes in a single season (2000).

UCLA

Karl Dorrell was hired as the head coach at

, replacing Bob Toledo, who was released at the end of the 2002 regular season. Between Toledo and Dorrell,

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, an athletic department official who oversees the academics for the football team, served as interim coach for the 2002

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. Under Kezirian, the Bruins won the

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over

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, 27–13. Dorrell's hiring as head coach was announced on December 19, 2002 by UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero. Ed Kezirian remained on the football staff. Dorrell was brought in at UCLA to clean up a program marred by off-the-field problems in the final years of Bob Toledo's tenure.

2003–2004 seasons

The UCLA Bruins football team under Dorrell recorded a mark of 6–7 in his first season as head coach in 2003, with an appearance in the

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, and a loss to

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. In 2004, his second season, the team finished with a record of 6–6 an appearance in the

, with a loss to

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2005 season

In 2005, his third season as head football coach, Dorrell was able get his first win against a ranked opponent, No. 21 Oklahoma, featuring

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. On October 1, 2005, head coach

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and his

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came to the Rose Bowl for a Pacific-10 Conference game to play UCLA. This was the first time two black head coaches faced each other in a Pac-10 conference game. At the time, Sylvester Croom of

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was the only other black coach heading an NCAA Division I football program. Dorrell achieved his first win against a top-ten opponent with a 47–40 upset win over No. 10-ranked Washington. Three Bruin wins in the 2005 season set new school records for biggest comebacks earning the nickname "The Cardiac Kids." They came thanks largely to the heroics of quarterback Drew Olson and tailback Maurice Jones-Drew. In the regular season the Bruins came from down 21 points to win in overtime against both Washington State and Stanford. In the Stanford comeback, the Bruins scored 21 points in the final 7:04 of the fourth quarter. In the

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, the Bruins set the record again by coming back from 22 points down. This also is the Sun Bowl record. The Bruins were ranked No. 7 in the nation until a 52–14 blowout loss to a 3–8 Arizona team. The Bruins came into the UCLA–USC rivalry last regular season game ranked No. 11. They suffered a 66–19 defeat to the No. 1

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. This was the largest margin of defeat since the series began in 1929 with a 76–0 defeat. The Bruins finished third in the Pac-10 standings. On December 30, 2005 his Bruins defeated the

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in the

, 50–38, finishing the season with a 10–2 record. At the end of the 2005 season, Dorrell and fellow UCLA coach Ben Howland received pay bonuses for coaching successful seasons. Karl was named Pac-10 co-coach of the year along with USC head coach

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2006 season

In 2006, Dorrell's fourth season, he guided the Bruins to a 7–6 season (5-4 in conference) and a fourth-place Pac-10 finish. UCLA played its first game at the

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since the 1960s and was leading 17–13, but the

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scored a touchdown in the final minute to win. The most notable victory of his coaching career at UCLA was a 13–9 defeat of No. 2-ranked and Bowl Championship Series title-game-bound USC on December 2, 2006. The win kept the Trojans out of the title game and broke a seven-game UCLA losing streak to the Trojans, thereby preserving the Bruins' eight-game win streak over USC from 1991 to 1998 as the longest run in the history of the rivalry. The victory also clinched a winning season for UCLA. The Bruins played in the Emerald Bowl in San Francisco against a

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-coached

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team on December 27, 2006 and lost, 44–27.

2007 season

In Dorrell's fifth season at UCLA, with 20 returning starters and a team of his own recruits, hopes were high for the Bruins in 2007. After starting the season with a couple of wins over Stanford and

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, and achieving a No. 11

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ranking, however, UCLA stumbled against an injured, winless, and unranked

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team, 44–6. Four weeks later, Dorrell's Bruins fell again; this time 20–6 to an unranked, winless Notre Dame team. The Bruins did, however, post wins against seemingly more difficult PAC-10 opponents, including a No. 10 Cal team. However; the bad taste of losses to teams the Bruins were favored to beat (including an embarrassing 27–7 loss to

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) raised questions about Dorrell's play-calling and ability to motivate his players. After the Washington State loss, UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero addressed UCLA's inconsistent football performances for the first time, stating "I will be very interested to see how we finish the season. And you can use that." Many took this as a hint that Dorrell's job might be in serious jeopardy. The Bruins would go on to lose to Arizona and Arizona State by a combined score of 58–47, but surprisingly shut out an Oregon Ducks team that a week earlier lost starting quarterback and Heisman Trophy Candidate Dennis Dixon to a knee injury. Heading into the final game of the regular season against crosstown-rival USC, the Bruins still had an outside chance at a Rose Bowl berth that might have saved Dorrell's job; with a victory over USC and some help from Arizona (with a win over ASU), the Bruins could have been the first-ever five-loss team to play in the Rose Bowl. It wasn't to be, however, and the Bruins finished the 2007 Regular season with a miserable offensive performance in a 24–7 loss to USC and a record of 6–6. On December 3, 2007, Dorrell was fired during a meeting with athletic director Dan Guerrero. He was offered the choice to coach in the Las Vegas Bowl but decided not to. Defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker served as interim coach for the game, where UCLA lost to BYU. UCLA eventually selected

, a former UCLA teammate of Dorrell, as his successor.

Second stint as assistant coach

Miami Dolphins (2008–2011)

Dorrell interviewed at Duke University and was a finalist along with eventual hire

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for the head coaching position vacated by

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. He was also dealt as a candidate for the vacant offensive coordinator position for the Houston Texans. Former Texans offensive coordinator

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left for

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in November 2007. That position, however, eventually went to

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. After rumors that he was a candidate to succeed

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assistant head coach, Dorrell eventually was hired as wide receivers coach for the

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, after having also interviewed with the

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. He was named quarterbacks coach on January 26, 2011.

Houston Texans (2012–2013)

Dorrell was hired as quarterbacks coach for the Houston Texans in 2012, coaching

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through a

season as the Texans went 12–4. He left the team after the 2013 season.

Vanderbilt (2014)

Dorrell was reunited with newly hired

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head coach

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, joining his staff as the offensive coordinator in January 2014. Mason was a player at

while Dorrell was coaching there early in his career. Dorrell' stint with Vanderbilt lasted only one season. Chris Foster of the ''

'' wrote, "Dorrell's West Coast offense did not fare much better in the East than it did in Westwood. The Commodores averaged 17.2 points a game and finished with a 3–9 record."

New York Jets (2015–2018)

On January 23, 2015, Dorrell was named the New York Jets wide receivers coach. In the

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, Dorrell established the Jets elite wide receiver duo of

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and Eric Decker. Both of them had one thousand yard seasons (Decker – 1,027) (Marshall – 1,502**), combined for an NFL record 26 touchdowns as a duo (Marshall – 14*) (Decker – 12) and a total of 189 combined catches (Marshall – 109**) (Decker – 80). Although the

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was a disastrous season for the Jets, the wide receivers were a bright spot in their offense. Although Brandon Marshall declined, and Eric Decker was injured early in the season, third-string wide receiver Quincy Enunwa had a breakout season for the Jets, with 58 catches for 857 yards and 4 touchdowns. Undrafted rookie wide receiver Robby Anderson also had a good season, with 42 receptions, 587 yards and 2 touchdowns. ** = New York Jets record
* = NFL record

Second stint with Miami Dolphins (2019)

On February 8, 2019, the

announced they had hired Dorrell as the team's wide receivers coach under new head coach

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Colorado Buffaloes

On February 23,

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, Dorrell was named the 27th head coach for the

. He signed a five-year, $18 million contract that would pay him $3.2 million for the first year with $200,000 annual raises in subsequent years. Following a blowout loss at home to USC in October

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, a frustrated Dorrell shoved a photojournalist's camera while trotting off the field. The next day, Dorrell apologized for the incident in a statement. Colorado fired Dorrell and defensive coordinator Chris Wilson on October 2, 2022, after an 0–5 start to the 2022 season.

Family

Dorrell and his wife, Kim, have two children, Chandler and Lauren.

Head coaching record

Notes

References

External links

Colorado profile
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