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I'm going to make your head explode now: Chandler Dorrell would be a fine guy to keep. He works very hard, is very organized, is often the smartest guy in the room, and is very strong at communicating & aligning organizational strategies. As long as he's not the guy setting the recruiting strategy or trying to be a marketer or promoter, he's a tremendous asset.
Chandler.
Beyond the firing of someone I don’t know at all, this has become a fascinating discussion about the proper application of the burden of proof in casual conversation. [popcorn sounds.]
Are you close to him and/or people in the AD that have shared these sentiments with you? I ask because there is nothing about his resume prior to CU that suggests he was remotely qualified to hold the position he was handed, and definitely nothing about his time at CU that suggests he's the smartest guy in the room, a very strong communicator, or knows anything about aligning organizational strategies.
Yeah. To be clear, I'm not advocating that Coach Prime keep anyone other than Hawkins and video production team because I've seen the top notch deliverables from them. But there are other people I don't know enough about to have a personal opinion and others who I know are capable and won't have a problem if HCPT keeps on board for the next year.
I'm not close to him. I have heard good things about him in certain aspects of the job. I agree he was over-hired to the position he was in and there was a lot of learning on the job - with that strengths, weaknesses and where he can be an organizational asset if the role is modified are revealed.
Hold on. There were reports on this? Under HCKD? That’s incredible. What a total self-own. As if we weren’t struggling to get recruits here in the first place. This takes my view of the prior staff to a whole new level of crappy.
The entire operations of Colorado football has been ASS for a decade.
You and I don’t see eye to eye a lot, but I recall a story (2019-2021) of a recruit and his family waiting over an hour at DIA to get picked up by the staff. Operationally a mess. It all has to be burnt down.
I guess I'm indifferent. If Prime decides to keep him in a greatly reduced role, then great, but I don't see him as an indispensable asset of the personnel department. Honestly, based on everything over the last 3 seasons, your post actually read as parody to me until the end when I realized you were being serious.
I'm trying to avoid the mistake most of us made with our opinions of Mike Bohn. Sometimes decisions are made above our level and folks do the best they can with the hand they're dealt. It's easy to blame the person who by title is directly responsible, but sometimes those people are doing things beyond what they should have to cover and holding things together with duct tape & dental floss. If you provide leadership & structure while aligning those people in the correct role, they will shine for you. I don't believe Chandler is someone you have to keep by any stretch, but I'm comfortable with HCPT making these decisions and don't have a case to make that CD is someone who has to go or who can't be a good asset.
The results of Chandler's job is far more visible as he has actually been in charge of recruiting and personnel. It's actually likely that Chandler had as much of a hand in many of the failures you are laying at McGinnis' feet.
And a high value recruit who's family came in on their own dime and couldn't even get an assistant to tell them which hotel would be best to stay at.
I’ll give you one major difference.
CU has been a laughing stock and was just “honored” as the worst football program in the country.
Has there been any rumors? Anyone prime has ties to? One of the most important positions on staff.
