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UCLA has hired Jimmie Dougherty as the next wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator for the Bruins. Dougherty was involved with former Oregon co-offensive coordinator David Reaves, who was arrested for a DUI last month. 

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There is some last-minute staff switching going on within the Pac-12.

Almost two months after he was hired by the Ducks, Oregon wide receivers coach Jimmie Dougherty is leaving Eugene for Los Angeles. He’s been hired by UCLA to coach the Bruins’ wide receivers, as first reported by Bruce Feldman. Dougherty will also serve as their passing game coordinator.

Dougherty was in the headlines for the wrong reason last month when he was a passenger in a car driven by now-former Oregon co-offensive coordinator David Reaves, who was arrested and charged with a DUI days after joining Willie Taggart’s coaching staff.

Reaves was in the process of being terminated before announcing his resignation on Tuesday.

As short as Reaves’ stint with the Ducks was, Dougherty’s run in Eugene didn’t last much longer. He was hired by Taggart on Dec. 23 after spending the 2016-17 season as an offensive analyst for Jim Harbaugh at Michigan. Coincidentally, he’ll be teaming back up with Jedd Fisch, who left his job as the Wolverines’ passing game coordinator to become UCLA’s offensive coordinator.

Prior to his time in Ann Arbor, Dougherty spent three seasons at San Jose State as an assistant head coach, wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator.

He got his start in coaching as a defensive backs coach at Illinois Wesleyan in 2002 after playing quarterback at Missouri from 1997 to 2001.

Now, Dougherty will be tasked with improving the wide receiver corps for the Bruins, who ranked No. 19 in passing offense last season (295.6 ypg) despite a season-ending injury to star quarterback Josh Rosen.

UCLA is returning two of its top-five pass catchers from last season.

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