UCLA HC DeShaun Foster on Hiring Eric Bieniemy & Bruins’ Move to the Big Ten | The Rich Eisen Show

tell me about hiring Eric benemy and and and what he brings to the equation for you Des just a a real veteran coach that has real NFL knowledge pedigree can help develop teach these young players how to be pros and then um just being in my first year I wanted a like a real presence as my offensive coordinator like somebody that can you know just command and really demand the the kind of discipline that I want out of my players when did you first meet him um I met him years ago but I just reached out to him when when the season ended okay once I got the job once you got the gig and and and he was going through uh post Commander conversations for himself now I but I can um see how a guy that wants essentially mfed Adrien Peterson while coaching him to be straight up you know uh to an 18 19 year-old who you know as transfer portal possibilities might just look at somebody like him hard coaching and that might not be a mix how do you handle something like that well my pillars are discipline respect and enthusiasm so I think as long as the respect aspect is there you can discipline and talk to guys however you know and just what I've seen him do in a little bit of time how he befriends them and it's not like he's attacking them it's just what you're doing you know it's not the performer it's the performance we're just trying to fix what you're doing and for you to get to where you got to go you got to get coached hard well he that's that's that guy I mean he is the guy on the screen is a excellent and an excellent um red ass there's just that's that's the way that that he is I'm just concerned that maybe some kids in the 21st century just aren't accepting of that sort I mean I'm pretty sure there are some kids that haven't but we haven't had anybody hit the portal or no I I've noticed that you no and I'm kind of the same way okay so there's a pod and there's two PS right there the HC and the OC okay fantastic and then uh offensively what what is this team going to look like would you say after after the Chip Kelly era here we know that every Michigan fan is watching this so well I'm sitting right here they're going to be we don't play each other I noticed I noticed they didn't put us on the schedule against each other in year one but you're just going to see just like my pillars a team that's going to play with a lot of discipline respect and enthusiasm we're going to get out there we're going to run the ball we're going to throw passes we're going to score touchdowns and we're going to play hard okay and the your quarterback competition is there one what do you um Ethan garbage is my starting quarterback okay so there is no there is no competition no he finished the year last year came in b game one MVP sure and he's just been trending ever since I loved how the way he approached spring picked up the offense really well commanded you know so I I just really wanted to see him just take the full leadership of learning a new offense and still be able to command your teammates he was able to do that and Big 10 Play This is Wild isn't it I mean that this is happening here yeah it's very sad that the Pack 12 is it ended you know um just the history of it you know a lot of great players even this past year you know what do we have probably first round quarterbacks came out of the back four well four of them four obviously you had Caleb and then you had pennx and then you had Nicks Y and um and well then there was Jaden Daniels and there was McCarthy who's you know one in the Rose take Jaden kind of the Jaden Daniels yeah sure one in one so you know just having that type of conference and we're losing it's it's unfortunate but being in the Big 10 this is something that you know can really help our program and just the exposure that we can get playing these games in these different teams well I mean you know and again it's it's no denigration to pack 12 football and I'm not saying this because I'm biased it's just big 10 you you you know there's a lot of people come run downhill and hit you in the mouth and so that's the mentality that you're trying to instill out a mat clearly most definitely we um we played Michigan 2000 they came down to the Rose Ball yeah and what happened in that game they were number three in the nation and then what happened in that game I think they got outc scored by a UCLA that's why you're bringing it up I I also might have played in that game too list I'm aware of what time it is deshaan I I know you know I know what's happening here I know what's happening here you know yeah I know but you know we we're excited for for this change and um it's it's just something that's needed in this new era of college football okay and what do you say to a UCLA fan that that is um excited for joining the Big 10 but also a concern that the the HC that was there decides I really wasn't into being an HC anymore and then you come along what do you say to a UCLA fan right now just come out here and keep supporting us you know um I I've done a lot of things uh we had a Friday Night Lights that was great at the stadium we have probably had the most people we've had at a spring game in years so you know they like the product that we're putting out there just keep coming out and supporting us and you're really enjoyed because that's what we need we need to have the Rose Bowl really be a UCLA home field you know when I played in the Rose Bowl it was packed with our fans it wasn't the opponents or whoever was coming into town so I'm just excited to get back to that and you know we're playing those teams that can actually that people might want to come see and that's true I think that's going to and you know there's a lot of transplants in this town that might want to buy tickets in the Rose Bowl and then not give you the home field advantage you're looking for we might have to do like the was that the Sixers was that the the yeah Didn't he buy buy yeah Buy Buy right you know yeah sure tell tell Casey buy we'll buy 5,000 seeds or something like no just kid but no I I I I hear what you're saying but you're right it's just you got to build up the enthusiasm you got to you got to tell everybody that there's you know a new Desa Foster in town and you have to win yeah winning breeds all of it it brings it all about it really does catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to 3 Eastern for free