After former head coach Chip Kelly left UCLA to grow to be the offensive coordinator at Ohio State, the Bruins have already discovered his substitute.
The athletic division has employed DeShaun Foster, a former UCLA operating again who attended the college between 1998 and 2001. He was chosen within the second spherical of the 2002 NFL Draft and performed within the execs till 2008.
Right here is extra from UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond:
“Whereas present process a complete seek for our new head coach, DeShaun resonated from the beginning and all through the entire course of,” mentioned Jarmond. “We’re searching for a coach with integrity, vitality and fervour; somebody who is a superb instructor, who develops younger males, is a superb recruiter and absolutely embraces the NIL panorama to assist our student-athletes. DeShaun checks all of these bins after which some. He’s a pacesetter of males and a real Bruin. I’m excited to companion with him as we usher UCLA Soccer into an thrilling new period.”
After taking part in for the Carolina Panthers and briefly the San Francisco 49ers, Foster ultimately discovered his method into teaching. He started his teaching profession as a pupil assistant at UCLA in 2013 and he then turned a graduate assistant the next 12 months. He served because the director of participant growth and highschool relations in 2015.
Foster briefly left UCLA for Texas Tech (the place he was the operating backs coach in 2016) earlier than he was supplied the identical place with the Bruins a 12 months later in 2017.
He remained with this system (turning into affiliate head coach of the workforce beneath Kelly final season) till he briefly accepted a place as operating backs coach for the Las Vegas Raiders.
Despite the fact that the previous UCLA star had simply left the varsity for the NFL, we lately talked about Foster as a possible candidate to interchange Kelly. He was capable of separate himself from a pool of 11 different candidates, per ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
Foster was the “overwhelming alternative of the present gamers” as the highest choose to interchange Kelly, in keeping with Thamel.
