Meanwhile, Bruins guard Alex Akingbulu’s coach from Harbor City Narbonne High, Manuel Douglas, said Akingbulu had been granted a release from his scholarship and was deciding whether to remain at UCLA as a student or transfer to play elsewhere. Akingbulu, a redshirt freshman, did not play last season after rehabbing from a torn knee ligament.
Gibbs, a freshman who is the grandson of former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, was the fourth-string quarterback and would have dipped to sixth string upon the arrival of Wilton Speight and Dorian Thompson-Robinson this summer. Gibbs did not play in a game last season.