There is a report in the times about DG being interested in kragthorpe.  So the linked article is quoting from another article, not from any of the principals.

Then unnamed officials said that Kragthorpe had declined to talk with UCLA.  Kragthorpe didn't say a word, but some unnamed person said something.

Here's a verbatim copy of a very interesting paragraph:  "L.A. Times columnist T.J. Simers cited no sources, but said that he had been hearing that 'Guerrero is on the road again ... talking now to Steve Kragthorpe.'"  So it is Simers (a great journalist) talking about what he has heard.

Then the article identifies someone by name, a Louisville football spokesman Rocco Gasparro.  He says that UCLA's search committee had contacted Kragthorpe three separate times, "but that Kragthorpe had told him he wasn't interested each time."  So it's not DG talking to anyone, it's some search committee.  And the "him" in the "Kragthorpe told him" is not identified.  So is the him this unnamed person on the search committee, or is this him Mr. Gasparro.    

Here's the next paragraph verbatim:  "Gasparro said that to the best of his knowledge, Guerrero hadn't spoken directly to Kragthorpe or asked for permission to do so from U of L athletic director Tom Jurich."  This makes it clear to me that DG has not been involved in any of this.  The "to the best of his knowledge" language is the kind of weasley language that is not used in real life, but only in depositions or in this sort of crappy press release.  (My favorite depo answer, and read this very slowly, because that's how witnesses say it:  "I do not recall, recollect, or remember, ... at this time.")

Next is a reference to a press conference in November in which Kragthorpe denies interest in SMU or any other job.  How many times have we heard this?  And I'm not even talking about Petrino.

I guess my legal background is showing.  This press release simply says nothing.  No judge would ever let a jury hear this if the issue were whether or not DG had contacted Kragthorpe directly, or whether Kragthorpe had any interest in UCLA.  It simply says nothing.  And to have the anchor to the whole thing be a rumor circulated by Simers, the fishwrap's version of Doh!, shows the unreliability and untrustworthiness of this sort of baloney.