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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

New Coach - Part 2

From the Daily Bruin: ...[Athletic Director Martin] Jarmond said [new football coach DeShaun] Foster will be provided whatever he needs in order to transform the program. “Make no mistake – and I want to be clear with this – DeShaun Foster and this football program will get all the resources they need to be successful,” Jarmond said. “We are all in on him and this program and going to the Big Ten.”

On the precipice of the move to the Big Ten, Foster’s hiring launches UCLA into a new era. Jarmond and Foster also laid out their plans in the evolving college football landscape as NIL and the transfer portal continue to impact recruiting. NCAA rules stipulate that players have 30 days to enter the portal after a head coach departs. The portal opens Wednesday for UCLA players following former coach Chip Kelly’s departure, but Jarmond said as of Tuesday morning no players have transferred nor expressed an intent to transfer...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2024/02/13/deshaun-foster-martin-jarmond-discuss-future-of-ucla-football-in-press-conference.

What you should take away from this item is that with NIL we have de facto pay-for-play. And with a transfer portal, we have a de facto labor market. Presumably, one factor in the departure of current coach Chip Kelly to the NFL is that he preferred an open commercial market rather than one that pretends to be something else.

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