Walker's future
UCLA defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker spoke with New Mexico State for a second time this weekend about the school's vacant head coaching position, according to sources.
Walker has not had a face-to-face meeting about becoming coach of the Aggies, but remains interested in learning more about the position, sources added.
Walker still has another year left on his contract at UCLA, but is interested in a head coaching position.
He became a well-known future head coaching candidate after turning around UCLA's once-poor performing defense. He served as the Bruins' interim coach in the 2007 Las Vegas Bowl loss to BYU, and was a finalist for the San Diego State job but finished second.
Sources also said LSU representatives reached out to Walker about becoming the Tigers defensive coordinator, but no official contact with the school has taken place.
About Inside UCLA
This is Brian Dohn's sixth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
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