CU Buffs bolster recruiting staff

Karl Dorrell and the Colorado Buffaloes appear to have hired Deontrae Cooper in a recruiting role.

Cooper tweeted out pictures of CU as well as his headshot for the staff directory and captioned it, "Cheers to new beginnings."

Cheers To New Beginnings...#Elevate21 #SkoBuffs #CUlture pic.twitter.com/cnF4Eq26tL
— Deontrae Cooper (@D_Co0p) July 21, 2020

Cooper hails from Colorado State-Pueblo where he played as a running back, slot receiver and a returner.

He spent 2010-2015 in Pueblo majoring in mass communication. He spent a few years trying to make it in the professional field before pursuing a career in coaching.

Cooper started his coaching career with a short stint as a graduate assistant at his alma mater. He then took a job as an assistant at West Texas A&M while getting his masters in educational/instructional technology.

Most recently, he spent the last couple of seasons on the staff with the infamous Dan Hawkins at UC-Davis. Hawkins has had some success there, winning the Big Sky in 2018.

This will be a new role for Cooper, a recruiting-only position, but it is likely he spent a lot of time evaluating recruits as a graduate assistant at smaller schools.

The recruiting staff continues to get bolstered. Junior Tanuvasa moved into a quality control recruiting position and they have continued to hire recruiting assistants over the last few weeks.

The football team has yet to announce a Director of Recruiting or recruiting coordinator from the football staff, two very common positions at various Power 5 programs.

They will also have to replace some of their on-campus recruiters that are now gone from the last staff when on-campus recruiting returns.