BREAKING NEWS: UCLA Names DeShaun Foster as Next Football Coach
BREAKING NEWS: UCLA Names DeShaun Foster as Next Football Coach
The former Bruin RB is back in Westwood after a brief tenure with the Las Vegas Raiders
Well, this is a bit of a surprise.
This morning, UCLA announced that DeShaun Foster will return to Westwood as the new head coach of the Bruins, replacing Chip Kelly.
Martin Jarmond issued the following statement a short time ago.
Bruins,
We are excited to announce today that one of our all-time great Bruins, DeShaun Foster, will be the next head football coach at UCLA.
DeShaun has been on UCLA’s staff for 10 years. He spent the past seven seasons as our running backs coach and served as associate head coach in 2023. In 2022, he was a nominee for the Broyles Award, presented annually to college football’s top assistant coach.
His running backs group led the Pac-12 in rushing offense in each of the last two seasons and has posted three consecutive top-20 national finishes. Among the standout running backs DeShaun has coached at UCLA are NFL players Zach Charbonnet, Brittain Brown, Demetric Felton Jr. and Joshua Kelley.
As a Bruin student-athlete, DeShaun was a key player on UCLA’s 1998 Pac-10 Championship team as a freshman and earned All-America honors as a senior in 2001 before embarking on a seven-year NFL career highlighted by his 33-yard touchdown in Super Bowl XXXVIII.
Throughout our comprehensive search, DeShaun resonated with us from the start, as we are looking for a coach with integrity, energy and passion; someone who is a great teacher, who develops young men, is a great recruiter and fully embraces the NIL landscape to help our student-athletes. DeShaun checks all of those boxes and then some. He is a leader of men and a true Bruin. We are excited for the future of this program with DeShaun Foster at the helm!
Go Bruins!
Martin Jarmond
The Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Director of Athletics
More later as this story develops….
Go Bruins!!!
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The Karl Dorrell years relived. I hope I have to eat humble pie for saying this, but as much as I love DS, he is not the hire we need at this vital and pivotal phase of UCLA football. I love being a Bruin, bleed blue, and only wish the best for my beloved alma mater. Sadly, I truly believe the 20 years of subpar performance by horrible AD decisions has bled me of my last ounce of Bruin blue blood. I can't even muster up an 8-clap.
Ah, the port in a storm! Did love him as a Bruin running back.