Karl Dorrell
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"Karl Dorrell" is an American football coach, former player and the current Wide Receiver coach for the New York Jets. He most recently served as the offensive coordinator at Vanderbilt Commodores football/Vanderbilt University, a position he assumed in January 2014 until December 1, 2014. Dorrell served as the head football coach of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2003 to 2007, compiling a record of 35–27. He led the UCLA Bruins football/UCLA Bruins 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 is the only African American head football coach in UCLA's history.

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He's a tremendous player (who is) learning to be more patient with his reads. You want the ball in his hands. He can break a big play at any time. I'm glad we have him on our side.

Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.

He is of [Bush's] caliber.

We ran into a buzz saw. We had a great week of preparation and felt good about ourselves. It was just a point in time in the season, probably, that things weren't going to click for us as well as in the past. We saw some things that were uncharacteristic of how we've been playing all season.

He played it like it was a championship-style game. Drew played well again for the third straight game. He's a senior and is the most experienced in this system.

It's more significant because from here on the games get bigger. We finished non-conference 3-0 with a win over a ranked team. We treat every week as championship week. Our next game against Washington is another big week. We treat each opponent the same, we want to go out there and put it all on the line.

Our defense was on the field too long. We played catch up with our offense and that was a difficult task.

I've always looked upon his career and the things he's done very favorably. Any young, up-and-coming coach, you do aspire to do a certain thing a certain way, and he was always one of those guys that I looked up to, and I still look up to.

Given our lack of success we've had against Washington State ... there's a lot of focus and motivation to continue the things that we are doing. This is a big road test, our first road test of the season.