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UCLA football: Deshaun Foster's recruiting approach key to Bruins' Big Ten success

UCLA's new coach has work to do on the recruiting trail.​

UCLA football recruiting during the Chip Kelly era was far from a program strength. Not since 2018 have the Bruins finished a cycle inside the top 25 of the team rankings, and their most recent class — which featured just one four-star prospect — flopped to a No. 88 ranking. A coaching change is now in effect, though, with former running backs coach DeShaun Foster filling Kelly’s role atop the program, and perhaps a recruiting surge could ensue.

Hours after UCLA formally introduced Foster as its next head coach, recruiting experts Andrew Ivins and Cooper Petagna hypothesized on the 247Sports College Football Recruiting Podcast what the future holds for the Bruins, who are in for a difficult transition next season from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten.

“The interesting part about this for me is that DeShaun Foster has been with this program since 2017,” Petagna said. “He’s been under Chip Kelly over the last handful of years, and this is a program that is completely stagnant from a recruiting standpoint… I wonder what DeShaun Foster’s vision for the program is going to be in terms of this is kind of all he knows at this level, in terms of the way that Chip Kelly has recruited.”
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Just sayin': The article is not real flattering on Chip Kelly's recruiting at UCLA; however, the primary reason that Ohio State hired him wasn't to recruit.
 
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UCLA football: Deshaun Foster's recruiting approach key to Bruins' Big Ten success

UCLA's new coach has work to do on the recruiting trail.​

UCLA football recruiting during the Chip Kelly era was far from a program strength. Not since 2018 have the Bruins finished a cycle inside the top 25 of the team rankings, and their most recent class — which featured just one four-star prospect — flopped to a No. 88 ranking. A coaching change is now in effect, though, with former running backs coach DeShaun Foster filling Kelly’s role atop the program, and perhaps a recruiting surge could ensue.

Hours after UCLA formally introduced Foster as its next head coach, recruiting experts Andrew Ivins and Cooper Petagna hypothesized on the 247Sports College Football Recruiting Podcast what the future holds for the Bruins, who are in for a difficult transition next season from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten.

“The interesting part about this for me is that DeShaun Foster has been with this program since 2017,” Petagna said. “He’s been under Chip Kelly over the last handful of years, and this is a program that is completely stagnant from a recruiting standpoint… I wonder what DeShaun Foster’s vision for the program is going to be in terms of this is kind of all he knows at this level, in terms of the way that Chip Kelly has recruited.”
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Just sayin': The article is not real flattering on Chip Kelly's recruiting at UCLA; however, the primary reason that Ohio State hired him wasn't to recruit.
Meh, Kelly was never really known for his recruiting prowess, yet he won big in Eugene. And like you said he wasn't brought to OSU to recruit. His play calling will speak for itself just like Knowles.
And Foster is talking the talk, but he'll find out real quick how tough it is to recruit at a basketball school, with an in city rival miles away who does take football seriously
 
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Meh, Kelly was never really known for his recruiting prowess, yet he won big in Eugene. And like you said he wasn't brought to OSU to recruit. His play calling will speak for itself just like Knowles.
And Foster is talking the talk, but he'll find out real quick how tough it is to recruit at a basketball school, with an in city rival miles away who does take football seriously
Some of the changes to the sport wrought by NIL can only be appreciated from a national perspective. Some of them are unique to individual states. Then there’s L.A.

If you zoom-in to LA county, you see that the team that used to be little brother most of the time, the one who would occasionally rise up and be a respectable rival for a few years at a time, has (in football at least), been demoted to the status of “bastard ginger step-child”

Collocation with USC used to be inconvenient. In the age of NIL, in a sport where 99% of NIL deals are local, collocation with USC is a death sentence. They just don’t yet realize that the sentence was passed when NIL was approved
 
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