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Newly Hired Football Coach Foster Faces Huge Task as UCLA Moves to Big Ten

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Newly Hired Football Coach Foster Faces Huge Task as UCLA Moves to Big Ten
DeShaun Foster, formerly of the San Francisco 49ers, poses for an NFL headshot at photo day in San Francisco on April 1, 2008. Getty Images
Dan Wood
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UCLA Athletic Director Martin Jarmond made good on his vow to hire a new football coach in short order after the Feb. 9 departure of Chip Kelly to become offensive coordinator at Ohio State.

Now the much lengthier and far more arduous task falls to the man Mr. Jarmond tabbed, former Bruins running back DeShaun Foster.

Dan Wood
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Dan Wood is a community sports reporter based in Orange County, California. He has covered sports professionally for some 43 years, spending nearly three decades in the newspaper industry and 14 years in radio. He is an avid music fan, with a strong lean toward country and classic rock.
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