Jedd Fisch said during his first season as Arizona’s coach that he’d like his program to emulate that of Utah, which is the reigning Pac-12 champion, and the Wildcats’ recruiting is reflecting that.
From a coaching standpoint, however, apparently the current blueprint is to hire assistant coaches from UCLA’s most recent staff.
The UA officially announced the hiring of Jason Kaufusi as a defensive assistant on Monday, marking the second Bruins coach to come to Tucson in the past two weeks. He joins Johnny Nansen, the UA’s new defensive coordinator.
aufusi, 42, spent the previous three seasons as UCLA’s outside linebackers coach.