UCLA named DeShaun Foster its next head coach, the school announced Monday.
“While undergoing a comprehensive search for our new head coach, DeShaun resonated from the start and throughout the whole process,” athletic director Martin Jarmond said in a statement. “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.”
Foster is in the UCLA Hall of Fame as a former star tailback and has been the school’s running backs coach since 2017. He was set to join the Las Vegas Raiders as an assistant coach this offseason.