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Editor Kezirian attended Central Union High School in Fresno, California and was a student and a letterman in football.
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As of the 2007 college football season, Kezirian is the Football Academic Coordinator at University of California, Los Los Angeles Kezirian is known for waving a towel on the sidelines to inspire the fans during football games. "Coach K", as he is more affectionately known, has retired from University of California, Los Angeles after the 2007 season and is moving back to the central part of California. He spent two seasons at Reedley Junior College in Reedley, California before transferring to University of California, Los Angeles in 1973.
Kezirian was named to the 1973 All-Coast/Conference First Team.
He was part of coach Pepper Rodgers" very powerful offensive line at the time. Kezirian was an offensive line coach under Terry Donahue and Bob Toledo.
When Toledo was fired on December 10, 2002, Kezirian became the interim head coach for the game against the New Mexico Lobos in the Las Vegas Bowl on December 25, 2002. An interesting note from that game was that when New Mexico sent Katie Hnida out to kick an extra point, Katie became the first woman to play in a Division I-A college football game.
The kick was blocked, so University of California, Los Angeles was not the first team to be scored upon by a woman in a Division I-A game.
After the game, Kezirian retired from coaching undefeated and was replaced by Karl Dorrell. He remained on the staff to continue overseeing academics for the Bruins football team When Karl Dorrell was fired in 2007, defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker took the interim coaching duty for the 2007 Las Vegas Bowl.
The Bruins lost that game.
1976-1977 (University of California, Los Angeles): Georgia
1978-1980 (Hawaii): TE/OT/System Technologies
1981 (Hawaii): OL/System Technologies
1982-1988 (University of California, Los Angeles): TE/OT
1989 (University of California, Los Angeles): OG/C
1990-1992 (University of California, Los Angeles): OL.
