The question on many Buffs fans’ minds is who will replace Dan Hawkins as CU’s head coach.
CU officials announced the formation of a seven-person committee to find a new head coach for the CU football team on Wednesday. The search committee will help determine who will become CU’s 24th full-time head football coach after Dan Hawkins was relieved of his duties on Nov. 9.
The committee is charged with studying and evaluating detailed information on candidates, interviewing candidates and recommending one or more to CU Athletic Director Mike Bohn. Bohn is the hiring authority, but will not be on the committee as part of university policy.
| Who are the committee members? | |
|---|---|
| Who?  |
Description and qualifications |
| David Clough  |
CU’s Faculty Athletics Representative, a professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering, he has been on the faculty since 1975 and has served as Colorado’s FAR to the Big 12 Conference since 2005, a role in which he will continue when the Buffaloes join the Pacific-12 Conference next July 1. |
| Dr. Robert Boswell  |
Interim University of Colorado Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Community Engagement; Professor, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology |
| Dr. Elizabeth Bradley  |
Chair, Boulder Faculty Assembly Intercollegiate Athletics Committee and Professor, University of Colorado Department of Computer Science |
| Dave Hoover  |
Chairman & CEO/Ball Corporation |
| Roger Parker  |
(’83, Business-Mineral Land Management), Chairman & CEO/Recovery Energy, Inc. |
| Ric Porreca  |
Senior University of Colorado Vice Chancellor & Chief Financial Officer |
| George Solich  |
(‘83, Business-Mineral Land Management), President & CEO/Cordillera Energy Partners III, LLC |
| Information courtesy of CUBuffs.com | |
The chair of the committee is Dr. David Clough, a long-time faculty member, who said in a news release that he hopes to find an individual who will lead the program to success.
“We will strive to present to the director of athletics and the chancellor recommendations that will lead to the hiring of the best possible candidate for head coach, an individual who will lead the program to success in the coming years in a way that will engender pride in all supporters of the University of Colorado,” Clough said.
The committee will meet for the first time later this week.
Contact CU Independent Breaking News Editor Ellie Bean at Beanee@colorado.edu.
