UCLA is back, swinging around the coaching carousel for the second time in two years.

Unlike the February 2024 hiring of DeShaun Foster — whom UCLA fired Sunday morning after a 0-3 start to the 2025 season — athletic director Martin Jarmond will have potentially three months, far longer than Foster’s rushed spring hire, and the run-of-the-mill hiring cycle that usually takes place in December at the end of the regular season.

During a Sunday afternoon conference call with local reporters, which the Southern California News Group attended, Jarmond laid out his criteria for the type of candidate a yet-to-be-filled committee would use to select the next UCLA head football coach, a process the sixth-year athletic director insisted he would be a part of.

“First and foremost, it’s got to be s

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