UCLA Football: Timing Revealed For DeShaun Foster's Introductory Presser
Your UCLA Bruins football team will have its 19th head coach in school history face the media music this morning.
Former running back/running backs coach DeShaun Foster, whose hire as the Bruins' latest coach was announced by UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond yesterday, will be feted at an introductory press conference at 11 a.m. PT this morning, per James H. Williams of The Orange County Register.
Fans can tune in on Pac-12.com, the PAC-12 Network, Pac-12 LA, and the Big Ten Network to take in every last question as James H. Williams of The Orange County Register reports:
It will be Foster's first-ever head coaching gig, as the 44-year-old helps usher in UCLA's Big Ten era.
Following a solid collegiate career at UCLA from 1998-2001, during which he was named a Second-Team All-American once and a Pac-10 First Teamer twice, Foster enjoyed a solid seven-year pro career in the NFL, during which he suited up for the Carolina Panthers from 2002-07 and the San Francisco 49ers in 2008.
Four years after his final football game as a player, Foster returned to Westwood in 2012, when he served as a volunteer assistant for then-head coach Jim L. Mora. He moved on to a graduate assistant role the subsequent year, and a gig as UCLA's director of player development and high school relations in 2015. Foster took his first running backs coach gig with Texas Tech in 2016, before returning to UCLA in 2017.
He would coach under both Moran and Chip Kelly, a job he enjoyed until being promoted again last week.
