UCLA hires DeShaun Foster as new head coach

Big-time college football teams have been even more reluctant to hire Black head football coaches than the NFL. The SEC as one prime example currently has zero Black head football coaches. At a college the head coach is involved with way more things than on the NFL level, particularly with the changes that have come as a result of Name, Image and Likeness money (better known as NIL), the transfer portal, the complete realignment of major conferences, plus the usual recruiting and interaction with boosters. But UCLA became the second Power 5 school in a little over two months to give a Black man their head coaching job. UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond recently named DeShaun Foster the school’s new head football coach. Foster had been an assistant the past seven years and 11 overall, but had left in December to join the Las Vegas Raiders as running backs coach. Now he returns to his alma mater.& “This is a dream come true,” Foster said in a statement. “I always envisioned being a Bruin ever since I was young, and now being the head coach at my alma mater is such a surreal feeling, and I’m grateful for this opportunity....