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UCLA is expected to hire Nevada’s Jason Kaufusi as assistant football coach

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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UCLA is expected to hire Nevada’s Jason Kaufusi to fill the vacancy created by the departure of outside linebackers coach Roy Manning, a person close to the situation said Monday on condition of anonymity because he was not publicly authorized to discuss the move.

Kaufusi, who will turn 40 next month, spent the last two seasons with the Wolf Pack, serving as the team’s defensive line coach, and has a reputation as a strong recruiter. He had previously worked for five seasons at Weber State in a variety of roles, including coaching the defensive ends and serving as the defensive coordinator in 2016.

Kaufusi also worked at Brigham Young and Utah as well as Cottonwood High in Salt Lake City. He played defensive end at Utah from 2000-03 after serving a two-year Mormon mission.

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Manning left UCLA last week to accept a position coaching cornerbacks at Oklahoma.

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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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