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From Ben Bolch : The bad news was just getting started when UCLA’s football recruiting staff learned that DeShaun Foster had been dismissed .

Co-workers would walk into the office of Khary Darlington, the team’s general manager, to give him one wretched update after another.

This player’s out. That player’s out. A parent just called crying and confused.

“I mean,” Darlington said, “it literally felt like walking through a landmine field.”

Once they had answered every call and met with athletic department administrators and the remaining coaches to devise a framework

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