UCLA football hippity-hopping down recruiting trail

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UCLA is pushing hard on recruiting. Bruins coaches are well ahead of last spring, when first-year Coach Rick Neuheisel and his staff were still working through their just-been-hired growing pains.

UCLA has made offers to about 60 high school players and had 35 in attendance at Saturday’s scrimmage. That included a handful of high-end prospects.

• Quarterback Austin Hinder from Steamboat Springs (Colo.) High.
• Running back Jordan James from Corona High.
• Quarterback Brett Nottingham from Danville (Calif.) Monte Vista High.
• Linebacker Hayes Pullard from Los Angeles Crenshaw High.
• Linebacker Josh Shirley from Fontana Kaiser High.

-- Chris Foster