UCLA fires head coach DeShaun Foster after 0-3 start

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https://sports.yahoo.com/college-fo...deshaun-foster-after-0-3-start-170636578.html

UCLA has fired head football coach DeShaun Foster following an 0-3 start to the season.

UCLA announced the decision Sunday morning via a statement from athletic director Martin Jarmond. Assistant coach Tim Skipper will serve as interim head coach for the rest of the season, and the program will begin a formal search for a head coach starting immediately. UCLA announced the decision two days after a loss to New Mexico dropped it to 0-3.

“I want to extend my sincere appreciation to DeShaun for his contributions to UCLA football over the course of many years, first as a Hall of Fame student-athlete, then as an assistant coach and finally a head coach,” Jarmond's statement reads. … “His legacy and love for this university are firmly established. He is a Bruin for life, and we wish him, his wife, Charity, and their family the best.”
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Foster, 45, was in his second year as the head coach at his alma mater. He played four seasons as a running back for UCLA from 1998-2001, then played six seasons in the NFL, all with the Carolina Panthers.
 

Wow that’s some bad losses this year too. Utah is a good team but getting smoked by New Mexico? Yeesh
 

I hate seeing any coach fired in under 2 seasons but this one was pretty easy to see coming. The team was bad last year and seemed to be headed for a complete dumpster fire this year.

3 games into year 2 is crazy fast to pull the trigger on firing a coach. Don't like seeing things trending more to win now at all costs but feels like we get closer and closer to that every year and every time a coach gets fired really quickly.
 

It was a panic hire in the first place and followed up with a panic firing. All this at a time where UCLA has a bad athletic budget and now has to pay athletes additional monies. I can't imagine they will find a coach wanting to take over that dumpster fire easily. Their best bet is to find a solid football mind, possibly a great D2 or D3 coach or FBS coach that is respected and get them to see an opportunity to move up into B1G time football. At front of the line D1 candidates will probably see other opening as being more attractive than UCLA.

Of course, I don't want to start any rumors, but I heard PJ was in California over the weekend. Not sure what he was doing there, but pretty sure it wasn't coaching football.
 



The idea of them coming after PJ again is actually funny now. Hey, I know we didn't impress you 18 months ago, but how about now? Not only do we have $&&% facilities and no money but we're also irrationally impatient!
 

Wow that was a quick hook, but I think the days of giving a P4 coach 4-5 years to show something are over for most schools. The ability to build your roster more quickly now probably is a big reason for that.
 

PJ is out.
They want someone that has more of a Hollywood flair and good looks. Rumor has it that Jerry Kill his number one on their wish list….
 

gophernut1 said:
It was a panic hire in the first place and followed up with a panic firing. All this at a time where UCLA has a bad athletic budget and now has to pay athletes additional monies. I can't imagine they will find a coach wanting to take over that dumpster fire easily. Their best bet is to find a solid football mind, possibly a great D2 or D3 coach or FBS coach that is respected and get them to see an opportunity to move up into B1G time football. At front of the line D1 candidates will probably see other opening as being more attractive than UCLA.

Of course, I don't want to start any rumors, but I heard PJ was in California over the weekend. Not sure what he was doing there, but pretty sure it wasn't coaching football.
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Not to mention that UCLA may very well have to contribute to paying down Cal-Berkeley's AD debt load.
 



MNVCGUY said:
I hate seeing any coach fired in under 2 seasons but this one was pretty easy to see coming. The team was bad last year and seemed to be headed for a complete dumpster fire this year.

3 games into year 2 is crazy fast to pull the trigger on firing a coach. Don't like seeing things trending more to win now at all costs but feels like we get closer and closer to that every year and every time a coach gets fired really quickly.
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Im shocked!
The guy who begged and pleaded for Ben Johnson to remain the Gopher basketball head grave digger thinks NCAA coaching jobs are for life.

Shocked!
 

In a vacuum, 15 games is an absurdly quick hook. But in the context of the hire being terrible and unqualified, they waited too long, given that he should've never been hired in the first place. What a lazy way to hire - find a thoroughly unqualified alum who'll crawl on broken glass to take the position. Sound familiar? (Although I assume in their case, the hire wasn't actually made by the school president.)

The better, and more interesting, question is - why does the guy who made the terrible hire and subsequent panic fire get to keep his job? They have been a non-entity in football for decades now despite having hundreds/thousands of high-major football recruits within a 3-4 hour drive, and in the sport that everyone at UCLA actually cares about, they have been extremely mediocre by UCLA standards. Why does he continue to get a free pass?
 

dpodoll68 said:
In a vacuum, 15 games is an absurdly quick hook. But in the context of the hire being terrible and unqualified, they waited too long, given that he should've never been hired in the first place. What a lazy way to hire - find a thoroughly unqualified alum who'll crawl on broken glass to take the position. Sound familiar? (Although I assume in their case, the hire wasn't actually made by the school president.)

The better, and more interesting, question is - why does the guy who made the terrible hire and subsequent panic fire get to keep his job? They have been a non-entity in football for decades now despite having hundreds/thousands of high-major football recruits within a 3-4 hour drive, and in the sport that everyone at UCLA actually cares about, they have been extremely mediocre by UCLA standards. Why does he continue to get a free pass?
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I still remember that press conference for B1G media days when he said the school was in Los Angeles. Seemed over his head well before the first game.
 

beavergopher said:
PJ is out.
They want someone that has more of a Hollywood flair and good looks. Rumor has it that Jerry Kill his number one on their wish list….
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I assume you're being sarcastic, but they could do worse. The problem is he'll quit/retire after 2 years.
 



GopherTheJugular said:
I still remember that press conference for B1G media days when he said the school was in Los Angeles. Seemed over his head well before the first game.
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I'm sure there's a joke I'm missing here, but the school is in Los Angeles.
 




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