Lopez leaves football staff

The Times' UCLA football beat writer Chris Foster reports that Bob Lopez, who served as UCLA's director of football operations during all five years of the Karl Dorrell regime, has left the football staff.

Lopez will move on to San Diego State to assist head coach Chuck Long. Lopez first met Dorrell when both were at Northern Arizona during the 1990 and 1991 seasons, when Dorrell was offensive coordinator and Lopez was the recruiting coordinator.