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Brian Cabral, a Colorado Buffalo to the core, came out of retirement in May 2019 to become the school’s character coach. Brought back to the program by then-head coach Mel Tucker, new head coach Karl Dorrell maintained his presence on the staff. He works primarily with football, though he has worked with the basketball programs and is available to all 17 of CU’s varsity programs. Cabral, 66, was inducted into CU’s Athletic Hall of Fame in its 2018 class, as he spent 24 years on the sidelines as an assistant coach (1989 through 2012) – the last 23 full-time in assorted capacities including interim head coach, associate head coach, assistant head coach and defensive run game coordinator. Those 23 years as a full-time assistant rank as the most in CU history, not only for football but for all sports, as he passed the previous record holders (two legendary “Franks,” Potts and Prentup, both of whom assisted Buff head football coaches for 18 seasons). From 2013-16, he was the defensive coordinator at Indiana State University, where he also coached the inside linebackers. The Sycamores were 1-11 in his first season there, but went 8-6 in year two, advancing to the second round of the FCS playoffs. The six-game improvement was the best in the FCS ranks that season. He first joined the Buffalo staff as graduate assistant in 1989. and has always coached the inside linebackers, and occasionally had the outside ‘backers under his direction. From 1999 through 2005, he also coached the pun

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