They’re bad.
They’re really bad.
They’re 0-12 bad.
Who would say the Bruins are a quarter of how to complete a season without victory and don’t lose all the games they play by doing what their teams haven’t done in over a century?
They are lacking in discipline, unable to tackle, unable to score, and it sounds as if their coaches don’t know how to extract them from what he admits to be the lowest point in his decades related to their program.
It looked like a 15 1/2 point loser New Mexico, completely out of his depth on Friday night, but now there are no questions asked if Second year coaches will be fired when.
Foster said he still felt he was “undetectable” a suitable coach to lead the program, but failed to make a compelling argument about why it is.
“Because we can make these boys play,” Foster said.
Did you feel like Foster was an overmatch?
“No,” he replied. “Not at all.”
Except Foster appears to be overmatched. He sounds like an overmatch.
He preached discipline to players, but he also did not teach them to know how to effectively deliver their messages or to exercise greater self-control. The Bruins committed 13 penalties during their defeat to New Mexico, costing them 116 yards. A week ago in the loss to UNLV, the Bruins were flagged with a 14 penalty.
Foster didn’t sound like he had a solution.
“It blows my mind,” he said.
UCLA’s execution defense, or lack of it, was blowing the mind as well. New Mexico rushed for 298 yards, but that was to have Scottle Humphrey start playing in the first quarter alone due to injuries.
Foster pointed out how the Bruins won four of their last six games.
But it’s naive to think that winning a personal foul and allowing your opponent to run through you is not a trademark that wins football, and given the magnitude of the issue this year, it’s not a naive one to think that it can be fixed immediately.
Of course, it is UCLA’s unpleasant athletic director who is ultimately responsible for this whole mess.
Jarmond was the one who refused to fire the former Bruins coach after several mediocre seasons. Jarmond was the one who set a 96-hour self-task deadline to find a new coach when Kelly suddenly left the program to become Ohio State’s offensive coordinator. Yamond was the person who hired an inexperienced foster parent, and Gerry Faust was with Notre Dame.
Jarmond is not just a failure to revive UCLA football. He hit the program BL on the brink of death.
Jarmond did not attend the post-game press conference on Friday, so he became foster parents to tell fans why they should return to the Rose Bowl for future games.
“If you’re a real Bruin, you’ll still be a fan,” Foster said.
UCLA can buy the remaining three-year, more than $5 million in Foster’s contract, and Jarmond could be swept alongside him whenever it happens, whether this season or later. With his track record, who could rely on Jalmond to find a coach to lift the Bruins from college football purgatory?
Now it’s clear that Foster isn’t that coach.
The Bruins have not led at any point this season. They weren’t ahead of Utah, so they blew them out in the season opener. They weren’t ahead of the two Mountain West Conference teams that played in their latest two games.
UCLA is the only Big Ten team without a victory, and the Bruins can have a season very well.
Foster’s team has highly assaultable opponents on Northwestern and Maryland schedules. Again, as these early games have proven, UCLA is also very beaten.
