DeShaun Foster???

[cr8zyncalif]

Easy hire for an AD that plans on jumping ship soon. Promote the reasonably credible assistant with a lot of staff experience. Likely to keep some of the existing assistants. Not a bad guy. Not a home run hire. The least amount of work for Jarmond. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[ttowncoug]

Good hire. Likely cheap. If he can recruit and hire and manage staff he has a chance.

 

[Wazzubrooz]

This hire will be a flame out.

 

[BiggsCoug]

He is a company man. Easily controlled. Won’t rock the boat. Can pay him less than someone better.

The hire looks familiar…

 

[roses04]

Players like him, so it will hopefully minimize the number of players that will hit the portal if they wish to do so.

 

[dgibbons]

This hire will be a flame out.

But that will be after the B1G TV money is rolling in. Kinda makes sense for "continuity."

I didn't know Foster was coaching. He is/was a SoCal high school legend at Tustin High. My mom taught in the district while he was there. I want to say 4,000 yards his senior year.

 

[cr8zyncalif]

But that will be after the B1G TV money is rolling in. Kinda makes sense for "continuity."

I didn't know Foster was coaching. He is/was a SoCal high school legend at Tustin High. My mom taught in the district while he was there. I want to say 4,000 yards his senior year.

Gib, you are correct (re: TV money) from the standpoint that as a "bridge" sort of hire he makes sense. UCLA's athletic dept is financially strained, so to pick up someone on the cheap that is likable and a sentimental favorite is an easy choice for a guy with no guts (Jarmond) who prefers to live in SC's shadow until he gets a B10 midwest job. If Foster happens to succeed, you look good. If he fails, you will hopefully have more money to throw around for the next hiring mistake.