By TOMMY REZAC
St. Joseph Post
Former Northwest Missouri State player and national championship winning coach Adam Dorrel was formally introduced as the next head football coach at MIAA member school Central Oklahoma Wednesday.
Dorrel was announced as the Bronchos next head coach on Sunday. He succeeds Nick Bobeck, who resigned from UCO after 10 years at the helm.
The Bronchos were 47-54 under Bobeck, including a 4-7 mark this past fall.
"I'm very excited to be at UCO for a lot of reasons," Dorrel said during an introductory press conference. "Number one, it's a great academic university. We all know what kids want and get wrapped up in, but the parents still play a big part in that, and parents still look at academics.
"It has a great athletics tradition in a lot of sports. That was very apparent to me. If you look at the great location of where we're at, that's something that's very, very positive."
Dorrel comes to UCO after spending the last five seasons at Abilene Christian - a Division I FCS program. He led the team to its first winning season as a DI institution in 2018.
Dorrel is best known locally for his 13 years of coaching at Northwest Missouri State, serving as the team's offensive line coach from 2004-06, then offensive coordinator from 2007-10 and then head football coach from 2011-16, a span during which he won national titles in 2013, 15 and 16.
As head coach, Dorrel led the Bearcats to a 76-8 record, winning four MIAA championships in that time as well.
He hopes to bring that same winning pedigree to Edmond.
"I want all of our guys, before they leave here, to do two things - have a diploma and have a conference or national championship ring," Dorrel said. "That's what I want for our guys. We're going to talk about three things - we're going to be selfless, tough and disciplined each and every day. That's our family core of values."
Dorrel is a Maryville native, graduating high school there in 1993 before attending Northwest. He earned All-American honors during his playing days and was a three-year captain for the Bearcats on the offensive line.
Dorrel is UCO's 14th head football coach. The Bronchos boast 644 all-time victories in football - the fourth most in DII history.
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