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UCLA Hires RB Coach DeShaun Foster as Head Coach on 5 year Deal

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Players love the hire. UCLA thinks he is the right guy to get it done. Time will tell. @rutgersguy1 , do you have an idea of how many P5 head football coaches have been hired that have not had coordinator experience?

Not OT since UCLA is an opponent this year.

 
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The players are happy with this hire, but I wonder if UCLA is the type of destination, NOW, that would draw top of the line HC candidates to bang on its doors for the position.
UCLA might be facing financial strain and need to keep costs down , meaning the high salary Chip Kelly had wasn't on the table.
UCLA'sathletic department posted a deficit of $36.6 million for the 2023 fiscal year, the fifth consecutive year that the Bruins have run a shortfall stretching into eight figures.
The debt figures have gone from $18.9 million in 2019 to $21.7 million in 2020 to $62.5 million in 2021 to $28 million in 2022,

UCLA might be doing an on the cheap move in hiring an assistant already on staff, like Rutgers did in 2011

Hopefully for Bruin fans DeShaun Forster proves to be a good hire and for Rutgers fans, not good enough to beat the Scarlet Knights
 
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Knight Shift said:
Players love the hire. UCLA thinks he is the right guy to get it done. Time will tell. @rutgersguy1 , do you have an idea of how many P5 head football coaches have been hired that have not had coordinator experience?

Not OT since UCLA is an opponent this year.

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Don’t know the answer to that but Fran Brown, Sam Pittman, PJ Fleck, Dabo Swinney, Kirk Ferentz, Jim Harbaugh, Brent Key, Joey McGuire, Curt Cignetti, Matt Rhule, Brian Kelly are some names. IIRC Urban Meyer never was either.

A lot of the time though they start out at the lower levels in the mid majors or lower.

Brown, Pittman, Ferentz, McGuire, Key, Swinney had their first HC jobs in the P5 and 3 of them (Key, Pittman, Swinney) were internal promotions

Edit: Mario Cristobal is another
 
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rutgersguy1 said:
Don’t know the answer to that but Fran Brown, Sam Pittman, PJ Fleck, Dabo Swinney, Kirk Ferentz, Jim Harbaugh, Brent Key, Joey McGuire, Curt Cignetti, Matt Rhule, Brian Kelly are some names. IIRC Urban Meyer never was either.

A lot of the time though they start out at the lower levels in the mid majors or lower.

Brown, Pittman, Ferentz, McGuire, Key, Swinney had their frst HC jobs in the P5 and 3 of them (Key, Pittman, Swinney) were internal promotions
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Key and Swinney also took over mid-year as interim head coach and then were hired full time after that so there was at least some track record as a P5 head coach.
 
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rutgersguy1 said:
Don’t know the answer to that but Fran Brown, Sam Pittman, PJ Fleck, Dabo Swinney, Kirk Ferentz, Jim Harbaugh, Brent Key, Joey McGuire, Curt Cignetti, Matt Rhule, Brian Kelly are some names. IIRC Urban Meyer never was either.

A lot of the time though they start out at the lower levels in the mid majors or lower.

Brown, Pittman, Ferentz, McGuire, Key, Swinney had their first HC jobs in the P5 and 3 of them (Key, Pittman, Swinney) were internal promotions

Edit: Mario Cristobal is another
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That's a pretty good list. You are the Wikipedia of college football coaches!
 
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The players are happy with this hire, but I wonder if UCLA is the type of destination, NOW, that would draw top of the line HC candidates to bang on its doors for the position.
UCLA might be facing financial strain and need to keep costs down , meaning the high salary Chip Kelly had wasn't on the table.
UCLA'sathletic department posted a deficit of $36.6 million for the 2023 fiscal year, the fifth consecutive year that the Bruins have run a shortfall stretching into eight figures.
The debt figures have gone from $18.9 million in 2019 to $21.7 million in 2020 to $62.5 million in 2021 to $28 million in 2022,

UCLA might be doing an on the cheap move in hiring an assistant already on staff, like Rutgers did in 2011

Hopefully for Bruin fans DeShaun Forster proves to be a good hire and for Rutgers fans, not good enough to beat the Scarlet Knights
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I think for sure it’s part money related. Not a path I’d take but it all depends on the person. A good coach can come from anywhere. If you’re a leader and have a vision and can execute that vision, you can be successful…. coordinator or not.

John Harbaugh in the NFL is another example.
 
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rutgersguy1 said:
I think for sure it’s part money related. Not a path I’d take but it all depends on the person. A good coach can come from anywhere. If you’re a leader and have a vision and can execute that vision, you can be successful…. coordinator or not.

John Harbaugh in the NFL is another example.
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While he as an OC few a few years at UW, Jonathan Smith comes to mind as a coach who was an awesome hire for Oregon State on the cheap.
 
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Doesn’t UCLA still owe a buyout to Cal? Or did that go away once they gained admission into the ACC (lol)?
 
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While he as an OC few a few years at UW, Jonathan Smith comes to mind as a coach who was an awesome hire for Oregon State on the cheap.
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There are great finds and duds when going hiring assistants to be the HC.
But even so called successful HCs hired from other schools to make programs winners, leave that program as losers .
Kelly was supposed to make UCLA a top program , but failed to do so .
Chip was 25-13 for his last 3 years at UCLA, but that seems to be less than ABruin fans felt he should do and leaving a situation like that might be a smart move by Kelly instead of having a fanbase revolt if UCLA wasn't a top program in 2024 and a 8-9 win season wasn't good enough for UCLA fans .
Kelly's reputation as a winner might suffer, even if his team had a winning season if he stayed.
 
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MADHAT1 said:
The players are happy with this hire, but I wonder if UCLA is the type of destination, NOW, that would draw top of the line HC candidates to bang on its doors for the position.
UCLA might be facing financial strain and need to keep costs down , meaning the high salary Chip Kelly had wasn't on the table.
UCLA'sathletic department posted a deficit of $36.6 million for the 2023 fiscal year, the fifth consecutive year that the Bruins have run a shortfall stretching into eight figures.
The debt figures have gone from $18.9 million in 2019 to $21.7 million in 2020 to $62.5 million in 2021 to $28 million in 2022,

UCLA might be doing an on the cheap move in hiring an assistant already on staff, like Rutgers did in 2011

Hopefully for Bruin fans DeShaun Forster proves to be a good hire and for Rutgers fans, not good enough to beat the Scarlet Knights
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Look at the rosters of UCLA and USC. Yes they still get some big recruits but both aren't what they used to be.
 
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