Jan. 8, 2007

SAN DIEGO (AP) -Ron Caragher was hired as the University of San Diego's football coach on Monday, three weeks after Jim Harbaugh left to take the Stanford job.

Caragher will be introduced at a news conference on Tuesday, the school said in a statement.

He spent the past four seasons as the running backs coach under Rich Brooks at Kentucky. He had been the team's recruiting coordinator since 2005.

Caragher, 39, played at UCLA and later coached under Terry Donahue and Bob Toledo with the Bruins.