Karl Dorrell says he's 'evaluating everything' during the bye week

BOULDER — The season has taken a turn for the Colorado Buffaloes.

After beating up Northern Colorado and staying within three of the fifth-ranked team in the country, Colorado lost three-consecutive games by at least 22 points.

Now Colorado is 1-4 entering a bye week and head coach Karl Dorrell said on Monday that he’s considering making all sorts of changes, including to the coaching staff.

“We’re evaluating everything right now,” Dorrell said. “We had a long staff meeting yesterday. We got a chance to talk through a lot of things that we’re trying to address, whether it’s from our staff, or from a personnel perspective, we’re doing all those things right now. But nothing concrete.”

Just because there hasn’t been a change yet, doesn’t mean that it isn’t coming down the pipeline sometime this week.

“We’re still going through an evaluation period,” Dorrell said. “We have some time this week to kind of work on some things we need to work on and to see where we need to make changes we’ll do. But we’re going to work through that probably methodical process here.”

It seems unlikely a major change would happen—like a full-on firing—but a change to play-calling could be on the way.

And if Colorado doesn’t beat Arizona after the bye week, the odds get better that changes are made.

To avoid that situation, Dorrell instructed all of his coaches to meet one-on-one with every player in his position group about what needs to be fixed this week so the Buffs will be competitive against Arizona.

“That’s really the emphasis this week is to try to shore up the issues,” Dorrell said.

Dorrell added that the Buffs are in high spirits despite their situation.

“There’s that competitive spirit that most coaches and players have when, regardless of whatever the record is right now, is to get ourselves to play the best football we can and put ourselves in position to win,” Dorrell said. “Their attitudes have been pretty good. I’ve been very truthful with them in terms of ‘what are the issues that’s glaring that we need to fix?’ We had a great meeting this morning as a team. They knew it, they see it, they watch it on tape. We’re trying to address those issues so that we can play winning football.”

Hopefully the Buffs can fix some of these issues and pull a win against Arizona.