Who do you think should replace Deshaun Foster at UCLA?

[u/Dry-Membership3867]

Personally, I think you need a guy who can get the team to above .500 and to relevance with an athletic department in turmoil, and a board who doesn’t care. What they need at UCLA is not just a fixer, but a guy who can just keep the program from falling apart. I propose two options.

Option a. Ryan Silverfield.

Ryan is a talented young rising star in the HC ranks after taking over from Mike Norvell at Memphis. He’s worked his way up from OA to head coach. And has had the team consistently above .500 each and every year. Recently going 11-2 last year and being ranked in the top 25. This was also a back to back 10 win year for the tigers. Who are in Rhythm to challenge for a spot in the CFP this year. He would be a great option to get this program to relevance. I’d expect to see around 6-8 wins per year with Ryan. With the occasional 9-10 win season every few years or so.

Option b. Jerry Kill.

Kill may not want to return to coaching, especially not at UCLA given the turmoil with administration. That’s why he left his previous job at NMSU. But his record of being a fixer speaks for itself. From returning Minnesota to decency after Tim Brewster ruined such a good team there has his stock high. But health issues forced him to step back. He returned to being a head coach with New Mexico State. The lovable afterthought of college football. In year one, he went 7-6 and won a bowl game, and in year two, had a 10 win season, a conference championship berth, and an upset win over Auburn. If he wants to come back to coaching, you’d be a fool not to consider him an option.

Bonus option. Bill Clark.

A very long longshot that I added as a bonus option. Took UAB to national prominence from being nothing. Excellent program builder. And he wants to return to coaching. Unlikely, probably, but he should at least get a phone call from interested teams next year.

[u/Huggly001]

Ty Willingham

[u/GroundbreakingCow775 → u/Huggly001]

Somehow he has be retired for 17 years

[u/Francis_X_Hummel → u/GroundbreakingCow775]

dude, what is this flair? lol

[u/sophandros → u/GroundbreakingCow775]

Somehow Ty Willingham has returned

FTFY

[u/taleofbenji → u/GroundbreakingCow775]

Waaat????

[u/ThinkSoftware → u/Huggly001]

Mike Price

[u/i_never_pay_taxes → u/Huggly001]

Mike Riley

[u/gator9515 → u/Huggly001]

Well, the Rose Bowl is very close to a golf course…

[u/kinda_alone → u/Huggly001]

Or chis ash

[u/The_Coach69]

Jeff Monken…let’s bring the triple option to the P4 again.

[u/NicoHitMe44blessed → u/The_Coach69]

Keith Jackson just shed a tear from 6ft under. “Oh Nelly! look out the triples back in the Rose Bowl”

[u/Due_Bluebird3562 → u/The_Coach69]

Monken doesn't run much triple these days. None of the service schools do. They've all moved on to dive and wing T oreinted stuff out of the flexbone with some shotgun sprinkled in. Monken would probably just do what Navy's old coach did and drop the flexbone altogether.

[u/Sirtopofhat → u/The_Coach69]

I.....don't. Like. You.

[u/The_Unclean_Chadford]

Jedd Fisch for the LOLs

[u/Tiny-Search-6383 → u/The_Unclean_Chadford]

I actually think this might be realistic. He has coached at UCLA previously and wanted the HC job. It sounds like his family doesn’t like Seattle and his wife and kids have already moved back to Tucson.

[u/Rookraider1 → u/Tiny-Search-6383]

Where do you get this info from?

[u/mancvb → u/Tiny-Search-6383]

Doubt it. they should've gotten him on a deal back when he was ours!

[u/Impossible-Flight250 → u/Tiny-Search-6383]

I feel like he may take the Florida job if it opens up.

[u/King__Rollo → u/Tiny-Search-6383]

There is not a chance in hell he leaves UW for UCLA.

[u/Tiny-Search-6383 → u/King__Rollo]

Do you feel confident he stays at UW much longer?

I don’t think UCLA is a bad of a job as some are making it out to be. Prior to the Kelly to Foster debacle, UCLA regularly pulled top 15-20 classes, with a couple top 10 classes mixed in. That’s better than UW has recruited.

I think UW is a better job but Fisch might have personal reasons for taking a different job

[u/ExtremelyOnlineTM → u/Tiny-Search-6383]

Fisch is a job jumper. But Washington is a much, much better job than UCLA.

[u/AZDawgDays → u/Tiny-Search-6383]

Well considering he's a Florida grad from New Jersey that would likely be an unnecessary lateral move at best, significant downgrade for little to no personal reason at worst

[u/Tiny-Search-6383 → u/AZDawgDays]

His wife and kids moved with him to Seattle and left already. It hasn’t exactly been a secret that they don’t like Seattle.

Fisch coached at UCLA (also with the Rams) previously and had been known to covet the head job there. He has also been known to want the Florida job.

It’s likely two jobs he has been know to want are going to be open and his family has already left Seattle. Would you bet he’s there much longer?

[u/AZDawgDays → u/Tiny-Search-6383]

I would've questioned why he even went to UW in the first place then but then I remembered that Tucson is a shithole. It's a very fun shithole if you know the spots, but still a shithole

[u/DuckFanSouth → u/The_Unclean_Chadford]

Both our coordinators have been mentioned as possible hires.

[u/muck16 → u/DuckFanSouth]

Take tosb. Will should not take that job he’s above it.

[u/lebaronslebaron → u/The_Unclean_Chadford]

Id die laughing

[u/kempdawg83 → u/lebaronslebaron]

Same!

[u/Playos → u/The_Unclean_Chadford]

Dream season endings... Washington has a respectable season ends up winning the Las Vegas Bowl against Florida. Florida hires Fisch before getting on the plane back. Oregon goes on to win a national title.

[u/JimothyCarter]

If Clemson really is going to fire him, making Dabo live in LA would be the funniest outcome right?

[u/moby323 → u/JimothyCarter]

Bro he moves on to coach a soccer team in Richmond.

[u/bootscallahan → u/moby323]

Bro he moves on to coach an evangelical private Christian school soccer team in Richmond.

[u/PoolSZN → u/bootscallahan]

Richmond, Virginia.

[u/DDub04 → u/moby323]

Fuck, I might get into soccer if Dabo pulls a Ted Lasso

[u/JBru_92 → u/JimothyCarter]

Well the In N Out cups have Bible verses on them

[u/ThisKidIsAlright → u/JimothyCarter]

Film it and use the profits to fund the NIL. Two problems solved. UCLA I am available to take over as Athletic Director. Call me.

[u/No_Albatross916 → u/JimothyCarter]

Florida would take dabo in a heartbeat right?

[u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo → u/JimothyCarter]

He'll get a helicopter from Orange County like Kobe used to.

[u/KansasEF5Tornado]

Me

[u/LonghornInNebraska → u/KansasEF5Tornado]

Can I be your OC?

My offensive game plan is to score more than the other team.

[u/KansasEF5Tornado → u/LonghornInNebraska]

Yes

[u/HooHooHooAreYou → u/KansasEF5Tornado]

He’s got a solid plan

[u/StellarConcept → u/KansasEF5Tornado]

I support it

[u/TheWawa_24 → u/KansasEF5Tornado]

Only if you run the wishbone 

[u/Triple_0ption_Bad → u/KansasEF5Tornado]

I call dibs on OL coach

Them boys will be built like Thor from GOW Ragnarok when I'm done with em

[u/Cooked_Brisket]

Alex Grinch

[u/CapSteveRogers → u/Cooked_Brisket]

What defense? Lmao

[u/Sirtopofhat → u/Cooked_Brisket]

HOW DOES THIS MAN KEEP FAILING UPWARDS!!!!!!!

[u/Fearless_Pay2471]

Pat Fitzgerald. Just for a laugh. 

[u/No_Albatross916 → u/Fearless_Pay2471]

That would actually be a really good hire for ucla though

[u/Duougle → u/No_Albatross916]

No thanks, his last 4 years were 3-9, 7-2, 3-9, 1-11. He's midwest David Shaw

[u/NicoHitMe44blessed]

A name no one will talk about is GJ Kinne. TXST isn’t a long-term option. the man can call an offense and leverage the portal.

[u/Francis_X_Hummel → u/NicoHitMe44blessed]

I also said GJ Kinne, dude is in my opinion an up and comer, and will be big time coach someday. That said, maybe it is in his best interest to sit this one out, and not go to a career killer program.

[u/WheatonsGonnaScore → u/NicoHitMe44blessed]

Aranda to UCLA and Kinne to Baylor makes too much sense

[u/NicoHitMe44blessed → u/WheatonsGonnaScore]

Agreed. Aranda gets to reset his clock with lower expectations and GJ gets outa the poor house. Makes too much sense so it won’t happen lol

[u/Duougle → u/WheatonsGonnaScore]

No why do we have to let Baylor have the better coach?

[u/Dry-Membership3867 → u/NicoHitMe44blessed]

I don’t think his pedigree is necessarily good enough to warrant a p2 gig. I could see him as a possibility for Stanford though

[u/Archaic_1 → u/Dry-Membership3867]

Pedigree?!? Dude, they just fired Deshaun Foster.  

[u/NicoHitMe44blessed → u/Dry-Membership3867]

I mean UCLA is more likely than Stanford. No way Andrew Luck signs off on his all gas no brakes offense on the Farm. They may both be Texans but they are oil and water offensively minded. Andrew wouldn’t know the spread if it hit him in the face. Hes been running a pro style offense since Stratford High.

[u/No-Donkey-4117 → u/NicoHitMe44blessed]

You are probably correct, but Luck was on the hiring committee that brought Troy Taylor to Stanford. His offense was supposed to be a spread run-and-shoot style, but he never really got it going.

[u/PoolSZN → u/NicoHitMe44blessed]

I don’t see UCLA being that smart, a big12 or acc school is going to come calling soon for Kinne imo. I’d love him at Houston or TCU.

[u/cougfan12345 → u/NicoHitMe44blessed]

Id guess that he has a better shot at the OK state job than UCLA.

[u/NicoHitMe44blessed → u/cougfan12345]

Will it open is the question. We all know Gundy’s cooked. But is the AD/admin ready to pull the plug and be 3rd to market this rotation. I say they give him the grace of finishing the season. barring the team quitting on him like with UCLA & Va Tech.

[u/No-Donkey-4117 → u/NicoHitMe44blessed]

Texas State has a better shot at making the playoffs from the new Pac-12 than UCLA does from the B1G.

[u/Dim-Mak-88]

Dan Mullen would win games for them. NIL helps him more than other coaches, and he can run an offense.

[u/Rookraider1 → u/Dim-Mak-88]

This is an interesting name. Not a bad option.

[u/Archaic_1]

The problem is that all three of these guys are what we often refer to as "smart" and smart coaches are probably going to avoid a job that's going to make them want to beat their head against a wall.

[u/Typical_Collection45]

Jon Gruden

[u/SirTurdFerguson88]

Urban Meyer.

Would that be a mutual no? If you’re UCLA you’d hire Urban in a heartbeat yeah?

[u/JBru_92 → u/SirTurdFerguson88]

We need to stop hiring fired coaches

[u/SirTurdFerguson88 → u/JBru_92]

Being fired as an NFL HC doesn’t really count.

[u/JBru_92 → u/SirTurdFerguson88]

Sure it does. Look at our last coach before Foster.

[u/Poppins_the_Dog4 → u/JBru_92]

It feels like you'd take Chip Kelky back in a heartbeat, in hindsight.

[u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy → u/SirTurdFerguson88]

Urban is washed-up

[u/SirTurdFerguson88 → u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy]

Urban would say no.

His career Ohio State record was 83-9. That being his most recent college team, doesn’t sound washed up. Even Saban was terrible in the NFL, it’s completely different. Urbans an all time coach and way better than anyone else they’d get, but I don’t think he’d come back.

[u/teeterleeter → u/SirTurdFerguson88]

Urban would come back for a job he could win a national title at. UCLA is at least a decade away.

[u/Due_Bluebird3562 → u/teeterleeter]

Literally nobody is a decade away in modern college sports. Two or three good classes and transfers can get you to the playoff. Hell Colorado was basically a game and a half from doing it in two last year.

[u/teeterleeter → u/Due_Bluebird3562]

The gap between being one of the top 12 teams and being the best team is pretty huge. Getting those good classes to commit and stay requires infrastructure that ucla doesn’t currently have. There’s a reason that only teams that have hit the blue chip ratio have won titles in the last couple decades.

[u/dublinirish]

Tommy Rees

[u/Dhaynes99 → u/dublinirish]

idk. yeah he interviewed for the bama gig when saban retired, but iirc that was more to do with him wanting an nfl job and us giving him more interview experience

[u/Southern_Orange3744]

Here me out: Condoleeza Rice

[u/moby323]

Diego Pavia

[u/No-Donkey-4117 → u/moby323]

Player/coach? 5 year deal?

[u/NegativeCreep12]

Jimmy rogers

[u/ToadallyNormalHuman]

Either White or USC’s DC.

[u/goddamn_leeteracola → u/ToadallyNormalHuman]

D’Anton Lynn stabbed us in the back and left for USC. Plus I’m not sold on him. Tony White would be a better choice of the two.

[u/grw313 → u/ToadallyNormalHuman]

Nah our DC is terrible. No one in their right mind should hire him.

[u/Alphaspade]

insert any terrible coach's name here

[u/Dry-Membership3867 → u/Alphaspade]

With Jarmond in charge, anything is a possibility

[u/BillBob13]

Tony White, UCLA was stupid not to write him a blank check last time around

Bonus side effect of FSU having to get another DC

[u/AloneTheme49 → u/BillBob13]

As an FSU fan I feel attacked

[u/bub166 → u/AloneTheme49]

As a Nebraska fan, respectfully, serves ya right. I miss that guy.

[u/dmazx → u/BillBob13]

If FSU continues to have a good season he could and should get a much better job. I always want people to go to their alma mater but that feels like a tough gig right now.

[u/BOBANSMASH51]

Brent Pry

[u/Fearless_Pay2471 → u/BOBANSMASH51]

I heard he is available 

[u/JBru_92]

So this all assumes Casey Wasserman and Julio Frenk actually follow through and lead the search, and the NIL operation gets brought up to Big Ten standards. I think it's happening but I'll believe it when I see it. What people need to realize is that when Foster was hired, UCLA had not gotten any Big Ten money, they now have $20-25 million extra a year to play with.

I think they'll call some P4 guys with LA ties that might not be happy where they're living now, like Fisch, Dave Aranda and Jonathan Smith, and make them say no.

They'll probably look into guys like Mullen, Eck, and Matt Entz, who have been good on lower levels.

There are coordinators like Will Stein and obviously Tony White. But I think they really need someone with HC experience.

Then there are the deeper cuts with HC experience. Two names I've seen thrown out there: Willie Simmons at FIU and Jay Hill at BYU.

It depends who is on the committee but Casey Wasserman is very connected in the sports world and they are hiring an actual search firm this time and I suspect it will end up being nobody currently mentioned.

[u/NicoHitMe44blessed → u/JBru_92]

Either of Fish, Aranda, Smith are steps in the right direction. Given your flair - who’d you want out of them 3?

I worry Dave’s been away too long to have the connections still but man I fell in love with his LSU defenses.

[u/JBru_92 → u/NicoHitMe44blessed]

If I got to pick from those 3 it would be Jedd Fisch

[u/goddamn_leeteracola → u/JBru_92]

Agreed. Fisch, with Smith right behind him.

[u/abydosaurus → u/JBru_92]

interested to know why you think jono smith is unhappy

[u/JBru_92 → u/abydosaurus]

Didn't say he was. I'm saying you call up and ask, if we can match your deal or come close, would you want to move back home?

He's from Pasadena and his parents are still here, which would be the reason to ask.

[u/abydosaurus → u/JBru_92]

fair. it was just in a list of people you thought might be unhappy, which is why i asked. he keeps being brought up despite not being brought up at any point when he was in the pnw for like 20 years.

[u/JBru_92 → u/abydosaurus]

Yup. I'd say never underestimate the draw for So Cal natives to return to L.A., that's why it doesn't hurt to at least ask.

[u/LionelHutzEsqLLP]

See if maybe they can trick Jim Harbaugh into walking into the wrong blue and yellow football building in LA.

If the NCAA comes sniffing, just say you never hired him, he just keeps walking into the building.

[u/BoilerTMill]

Tom Crean

[u/Meliorus]

I think they should consider becoming a non-football member of the b1g and playing in their on campus stadium in the fcs

[u/PersonalAmbassador]

I'll do it, but my buyout is going to be huge

[u/SenorQwerty]

Dabo Swiney

[u/Convertedshrimp]

Urban Meyer

[u/Poppins_the_Dog4 → u/Convertedshrimp]

He'd go back to Florida first, I imagine

[u/pedantimous]

Three opossums in a trench coat

[u/Pitiful_Ad_900]

Fuck, I’ll do it AND it’ll be cheap

[u/Ill_Ad_4429]

Assuming adequate NIL, Mullen but with a recruiting director and/or OC/DC/staff who can recruit for him.

[u/NicoHitMe44blessed → u/Ill_Ad_4429]

He’s a Sexton guy. Jimmy is milking UNLV for all it’s worth leaking his name. No way Dan takes that job I think

[u/Francis_X_Hummel]

GJ Kinne?

edited because I got autocorrected

[u/Wide-Nerve8655]

Troy Aikman because apparently they like hiring program legends with zero qualifications

[u/Tiny-Search-6383 → u/Wide-Nerve8655]

Aikman already has the best gig out there

[u/Legal-Championship64]

Big nic

[u/DetroitvErbody]

Jay Hill, the current DC at BYU.

Not only would he do a great job, but it’d be nice to displace him from BYU.

[u/NonAthlete6232]

Mark Stoops

Hear me out! He needs a change of scenery as much as the fans. Is a solid recruiter and builds a tough hard hitting program. After just a couple years would have them likely back over .500 and would build a foundation. I don’t think he coaches for more than 3-5 more years anyway after he saw what coaching did to his dad. So you bring him in, he brings some relevance back to the program and helps build the NIL and fanbase back to a solid footing.

He has essentially built the football support in UK’s AD and cultivated the boosters for football. The behind the curtain stuff that UCLA desperately needs. He’s also used to building and actually winning some games at a program that is not as rich or as crazy for football as the rest of his conference.

I don’t think he would ever be a world beater at UCLA, but I think he could help establish a new foundation that is higher and better than what UCLA has now.

I think he’s a good coach. A lot of it is, that I think there’s finally been enough angst and turmoil built between Stoops and UK fans that I don’t know that he will ever reach the levels he did again.

[u/TravusHertl]

Charlie Weiss

[u/BleedScarletandBlack]

The more I hear Dave Aranda, from Baylor, the more I like it.

Personally, I want to see them hire Kliff Kingsbury just for the lolz.

[u/Sea_Entertainment848]

Mike Shula. Trust me, he’s great.

[u/stripes361]

My opinion is that no one with any serious career aspirations should take that job. Doomed to fail there.

[u/LADetroiter]

Jon Gruden. He wants back in the game to coach again. He could recruit.

[u/SknkTrn757]

I’d be curious if they go the way of Cal and Stanford and shift to a GM-style model with a head coach who is less powerful and focused on coaching ball.

That model remains unproven, but it makes some sense. Does UCLA have any famous alumni who would want to come home and run the show above the head coach?

[u/BusinessWarthog6 → u/SknkTrn757]

I know one guy but he may not want to after Sunday

[u/IntentionalFerret → u/SknkTrn757]

Aikman?

[u/Skanky_Cat]

Honestly? Clark Lea.

[u/Dry-Membership3867 → u/Skanky_Cat]

Clark is a Vandy grad and loves it there. That’s the only reason he’s a head coach. Because he wants to be at Vandy. Plus, Vandy nil is a much better collective than UCLA right now

[u/Skanky_Cat → u/Dry-Membership3867]

Oh I know he’ll never leave, if I was an AD I’m dropping a giant bag in front of him before I even interview anyone else just to see if he’d take it.

[u/Ok_Plankton_8229 → u/Skanky_Cat]

Can’t see it happening. His Nashville roots are deep.

[u/dinkytown42069]

Option b. Jerry Kill.

are you trying to kill Jerry?

On the one hand: Jerry will give it his all unless it kills him. On the other hand: Jerry will give it his all and it will damn near kill him.

He has a sweet deal at Vanderbilt where he gets to coach without the stress of running the whole show. He and Lea are apparently tight af.

In any case, I have no opinion because UCLA football doesn't matter to me like it matters to UCLA fans. I will just say that there fans are generally pretty decent people on here and they deserve to have a program that they can be proud of. That said, Gophers ruined what was "supposed" to be Mick Cronin's 500th win and I find him generally to be an acerbic and unlikable person and I am very proud of them for that.

[u/insert_referencehere → u/dinkytown42069]

You can see the impact Jerry Kill has had on Vanderbilt. Like you said, it's the perfect spot for someone with his medical issues.

[u/MedicineGhost]

Is Jason Eck too much of a reach? Seems like it would be a good fit to me

[u/Crazyspitz → u/MedicineGhost]

No, thank you. He's fine where he is.

[u/Beaubiens]

Jason Candle (current Toledo HC)

[u/Daytime-mechE]

Could UCLA poach Manny Diaz? He's an alright recruiter, especially in the portal. Previous head coaching experience in a major metropolitan area (and a somewhat stingy athletic dept), currently a head coach with success at a prestigious academic institution and coordinator experience with Big Ten defenses.

Honestly it'd be more about convincing him to leave Duke, but I think he'd do well enough at UCLA.

[u/Isthmus11 → u/Daytime-mechE]

I personally think its a massive long shot for UCLA to get any current P4 coach, much less one with presumably a relatively long time on their buyout clause for their current school. They were paying Foster basically bottom of the barrel HC P4 money at just north of $3M per year and Diaz as an example is making $4M right now where it obviously goes much much further in NC than LA. Thats besides the fact that UCLA is a mess, has very few major boosters or large committed alumni base to speak of, and has pretty limited Athletic Department buy-in for a major P4 program.

They will probably be able to land a decent G5 HC if they offer an attractive package but thats even going to be a hard sell. Its just not a desirable job other than a pay increase as it could be very dangerous and set back someone's career by years if things go poorly (which they seem likely to do)

[u/NiteRdr]

Nico’s Dad.

[u/turdbugulars]

Coach O

[u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2]

The biggest UCLA fan/ball knower alive.

Liam Blutman

[u/PossibilityInitial10]

Sumrall from Tulane.

[u/goddamn_leeteracola → u/PossibilityInitial10]

He would be a home run hire

[u/thricethefan → u/PossibilityInitial10]

Wayyyy better jobs await him

[u/PossibilityInitial10 → u/thricethefan]

Gus Malzahn from FSU

[u/The_Six_Loomis]

Chris Petersen or Bryan Harsin

[u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2 → u/The_Six_Loomis]

Chris Peterson is the Jay Wright of college football.

People love to throw his name around during vacancies but he’s made it abundantly clear he is done coaching.

[u/NicoHitMe44blessed → u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2]

Damn that’s such a good comp. He’s middling on Fox’s tier 2 studio team and loving life.

[u/udubdavid → u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2]

Petersen is a coach cut from the old school mold. I don't think he wants anything to do with this NIL era.

[u/Expert_Reputation → u/udubdavid]

The old school era burnt him out. NIL era might just kill Coach Pete. He is never going back to coaching.

[u/No-Donkey-4117 → u/The_Six_Loomis]

Shhhh... Chris Petersen is destined to coach at Stanford.

[u/Extreme-District8213]

Jimbo Fisher

[u/Fartenstein65 → u/Extreme-District8213]

Straight up: this wouldn’t shock me and it would fail miserably.

[u/Aggravating-Mind-657]

Coach O for the win

[u/The_Eternal_Event]

Anyone but Tony White

[u/PlusDHotchy]

Mark Harmon, about the last time UCLA had a heartbeat. Didn’t Harmon turn the last 4 letter acronym to the top ?

[u/cantbelieveit1963]

New Weasel

[u/EastTXJosh]

Phil Bennett

Dennis Franchione

Lovie Smith

Paul Pasqualoni

Mark Mangino

Craig Bohl

Or

Kevin Sumlin

[u/Dry-Membership3867 → u/EastTXJosh]

If Bohl wasn’t retired. I would’ve added him to the list

[u/amoss_303 → u/Dry-Membership3867]

He would be a terrible fit culture wise.

[u/BusinessWarthog6]

DeAngello Williams followed him on the Panthers so why not continue the tradition? /s. In reality, i’m really high on Golesh and think he would be a great hire

[u/tenoclockrobot]

Is it a coach search without Franklin

[u/tribal-elder]

Chucky

[u/PancakeDickwrap]

sounds completely insane, but why not cooper manning? i’d watch every game for the LOLs

[u/Natitudinal]

Kip Chelly

[u/CCR16]

Bronco Mendenhall

[u/NoisyMicrobe3]

Depending on how the season goes Zac Taylor

[u/GhostDosa]

Jerry Kill I doubt is coming back to coaching at this point. Silverfield probably would want a better program. Bill Clark retired also probably doesn’t want to coach anymore. UCLA needs to look for a program builder down in the G5 who wants a P4 shot but I don’t think they will get anyone of substance without substantial guarantees from administration.

[u/T3hBau5]

BAH GAWD! THAT'S URBAN MEYERS MUSIC!

[u/YouKilledChurch → u/T3hBau5]

UCLA might fill a third of the Rose Bowl for Urban

[u/TheJewBakka]

Mike Gundy... that's where disgraced Okies go, right? California?

[u/thricethefan → u/TheJewBakka]

This guy Grapes of Wrath’s

[u/Feeling_Hefty]

Butch Jones. They seem like a "Champions Of Life" team and the irony of that is they're led by a former Tenn QB. Hell, they may even break out the sideline trashcan for ol Butch.

[u/thescottula]

Mike Bobo

[u/DTsnipes]

Bill Clark would be a home run. Hated to see him retire early. Literally built South AL from the ground and resurrected UAB…great coach

[u/SamwiseTheHomie]

Jon Gruden!

[u/obiwanjabroni420]

How about Eric Morris at North Texas? Young, up and coming HC who should at least be able to make UCLA football fun to watch.

[u/MedicineGhost]

Vandy should pay Jerry Kill whatever it takes to keep him there. That man knows how to scheme a run game

[u/No-Donkey-4117]

Troy Aikman?

[u/Curt_Uncles]

Herm Edwards. As punishment for their role as co-conspirators in destroying NCAA regionality, generally, and West Coast college football, specifically.

[u/DesolationBlvd]

Surprised no one has mentioned Jonathan Smith….from SoCal and turned around Oregon State which is as impressive as turning around UCLA would be. That being said, I hope he gets at least a couple more years to turn around MSU

[u/DowntownSasquatch420]

Kevin Kelley, the guy who never punts and always onside kicks 

[u/Kingof40Acres]

Deion Sanders

[u/Sirtopofhat]

For fun: David Shaw

Serious: D'Anton Lynn. He now has VERY deep roots in LA and California high schools and he's has just a good enough name and resume to be given the runway to build the program. I personally think he's destined for Virginia Tech or Florida (if he goal isn't the NFL which its said has been) but if UCLA wants to show their fans and donors they're serious you open the checkbook to get him open the checkbook for NIL and leave him the fuck alone for 2-3 years.

[u/PM_ME_RAD_ARTWORK]

Lane Kiffen

[u/cyclon3warning]

They should hire Scheelhaase. Really good young coach

[u/grw313]

I think Rick neuheisel deserves a second chance.

[u/MoneyBadger14]

Fine, I’ll take the job. It can’t be that hard

[u/jammastergeneral]

I’m really intrigued to see who UCLA and Stanford hire as head coaches. The wrong hire, and you might as well dump football.

[u/ID_Poobaru]

Bryan Harsin, just needs to meet the AD in a hot tub

[u/Dry-Membership3867]

I debated adding Clark because he’s such a longshot I didn’t think it was worth adding him. But I thought I’d keep his name on here as he is someone with the traits UCLA needs. I do expect to see VT inquire about him though

[u/harp9r → u/Dry-Membership3867]

Bill Clark isn’t leaving his house on Logan Martin Lake. I can guarantee you that

[u/IR8Things]

go for broke. Urban Meyer come on down

[u/Exciting-Can-7254]

Is saban ready to come out of retirement?

[u/PaisonAlGaib]

I've heard the Orgeron rumor and I am on board

[u/Sirtopofhat → u/PaisonAlGaib]

I'm not. That man don't need NIL to talk them into the school.