Musgrave Hiring Not Likely

By Steve Henson

Jan. 4, 2003 12 AM PT

The possibility of hiring Bill Musgrave as UCLA offensive coordinator is becoming more remote each day and Coach Karl Dorrell will interview others for the position, sources said Friday. Dorrell met Monday with Musgrave, the Virginia offensive coordinator, but no agreement could be reached as the week went on.

Musgrave, 35, has been courted by new Kentucky Coach Rich Brooks, who was Musgrave’s coach at Oregon in the late 1980s.

Kentucky also is considering former UCLA coach Bob Toledo, who served as Brooks’ offensive coordinator at Oregon. Sources in Virginia said it is unlikely that Musgrave, considered one of the brightest young offensive minds in football, will leave his current position for anything less than a head coaching job.

-- Steve Henson

UCLA Sports

Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

Musgrave Hiring Not Likely

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