UCLA is hiring former Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Washington Commanders offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy as the college’s subsequent offensive coordinator, in accordance with a report from ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Pete Thamel. Bieniemy will even obtain an affiliate head coach title as a part of his new function with the college.
The 54-year-old Bieniemy joins the workers of latest head coach DeShaun Foster, who was promoted from his function as an assistant on Chip Kelly’s workers earlier this month. It will likely be a two-year deal for the previous Washington offensive coordinator.
That is the second time Bieniemy has coached at UCLA, having beforehand been a operating backs coach with the college from 2003-’05 underneath coach Karl Dorrell.
“Southern California. I attended highschool there. I began my profession within the league right here (with the Chargers). It’s clearly nice to be again with the Bruins, the place I used to be beforehand employed,” Bieniemy wrote in an e-mail to Schefter and Thamel on Saturday.
Bieniemy has been within the operating for a number of NFL head teaching jobs over the previous couple of years, however in the end remained an offensive coordinator with the Chiefs and Commanders. He now returns to the faculty sport for the primary time since 2012, when he was the offensive coordinator at Colorado. That was his ultimate job on the faculty stage earlier than becoming a member of Andy Reid’s Kansas Metropolis workers within the NFL.
