UCLA head coach Chip Kelly finalized his coaching staff Tuesday, announcing three new hires, including quarterbacks coach Dana Bible.
The new staff includes six new hires, most of whom have prior experience coaching with Kelly at the head coach’s stops in college and the NFL, and four returning assistant coaches.
Bible, 64, was most recently an offensive analyst for Kelly with the San Francisco 49ers in 2016. Although the Bruins will not have a separate offensive coordinator under Kelly, Bible has served as an offensive coordinator at seven universities and with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1998.
UCLA also announced the hiring of Roy Manning as outside linebackers and special teams coach. Manning spent the previous three years at Washington State coaching outside linebackers.
Manning and Vince Oghobaase, Kelly’s new defensive line coach, are the only defensive assistants without prior coordinating experience. Oghobaase, a former San Franscisco 49ers assistant defensive line coach who worked with Kelly in 2016, will work with defensive coordinator Jerry Azzinaro, previously the Cal defensive line coach, defensive backs coach Paul Rhoads and linebackers coach Don Pellum.
Kelly retained four assistants from the previous UCLA staff: wide receivers coach Jimmie Dougherty, running backs coach DeShaun Foster, offensive line coach Hank Fraley and Angus McClure, who will move from defensive line to tight ends.
McClure, entering his 12th season with the Bruins, is the longest-tenured assistant coach on the staff. Dougherty, Foster and Fraley all completed their first seasons at UCLA last year.