LOS ANGELES — Nico Iamaleava’s first months in Westwood couldn’t have gone less to plan. The expected happened, the talk-of-the-town Tennessee transfer slotting in as UCLA’s starting quarterback.

But the rest has turned his early days as a Bruin into a national storyline for the wrong reasons.

DeShaun Foster, the coach who brought Iamaleava to UCLA, was fired. The former Warren High star felt the sting of defeat after defeat, winless through three games in blue and gold. The last week and a half, with a new coach – interim Tim Skipper – barking orders and shifting the football program ahead of the start of Big Ten action Saturday against Northwestern, has forced Iamaleava into uncharted territory in his college career.

“I’ve never really been in this situation where, you know, I’m 0-3,”

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