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Tomey Not Interested in Job

By Steve Henson
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Former Arizona Coach Dick Tomey said Wednesday he has had discussions with UCLA, but is not interested in becoming defensive coordinator.

“I love UCLA but I wouldn’t consider coming as a coordinator,” Tomey said from a coaches’ convention in New Orleans. “I’m standing behind Duane Akina.”

Akina, the secondary coach at Texas and an assistant under Tomey at Arizona and Hawaii for nearly two decades, interviewed Monday with Bruin Coach Karl Dorrell but no offer has been made. Dorrell still needs to hire offensive and defensive coordinators.

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-- 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.

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