Deshaun Foster
Deshaun Foster went 5–10 as a head coach, 2024–2025, at UCLA. Share
- Record
- 5–10 career
- Seasons
- 2
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Jan 10, 1980
- Alma mater
- UCLA 2014
- Best season
- 2024 5–7
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | UCLA | 5–7 | T–12th | |||
| 2025 | UCLA coached three of 12 games | 0–3 |
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Against top-10 teams | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Conference games | 9 | 3–6 | 33% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 8 | 5–3 | 63% |
| At home | 8 | 2–6 | 25% |
| On the road | 7 | 3–4 | 43% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 6 | 2–4 | 33% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 9 | 3–6 | 33% |
His own 15 games on file, 2024–2025, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Hawai’iseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Nebraskaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Rutgersseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Fresno Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Iowaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| USCseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Indianaseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| LSUseries | 1 | 0–1 |
How he was hired
- Hired by UCLA for the 2024 season from UCLA, where he was running backs coach. He had a prior connection to the school.
Power-conference head-coaching hires since 2010, with each coach’s previous job and ties to the school as collected by hand from Wikipedia: Hiring facts: M. Schuckers, cfb_coach_analytics.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012–13 | UCLA | Student assistant | |
| 2014 | UCLA | Graduate assistant | |
| 2016 | Texas Tech | Running backs coach | |
| 2017–22 | UCLA | Running backs coach | |
| 2023 | UCLA | Assistant head coach and running backs coach | |
| 2024–25 | UCLA | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Jim MoraUCLA
- Kliff KingsburyTexas Tech
- Jedd FischUCLA
- Chip KellyUCLA
Assistants who became head coaches
- Ted WhiteHoward
- Kevin CoyleAtlanta Legends
- Tim SkipperFresno State, UCLA, Cal Poly
Worked under (4)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Mora | UCLA | 2012–17 | 2012–13: student assistant; 2014: graduate assistant; 2017: running backs coach | |
| Kliff Kingsbury | Texas Tech | 2016 | Running backs coach | |
| Jedd Fisch | UCLA | 2017 | Running backs coach | |
| Chip Kelly | UCLA | 2018–23 | 2018–22: running backs coach; 2023: assistant head coach and running backs coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ted White | UCLA, 2024: quarterbacks coach | Howard | |
| Kevin Coyle | UCLA, 2025: interim defensive coordinator | Atlanta Legends | |
| Tim Skipper | UCLA, 2025: special assistant to the head coach | Fresno State, UCLA, Cal Poly |
Other assistants under him (8)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Billy Fessler | UCLA, 2024: quarterbacks coach | |
| Brian Norwood | UCLA, 2024: assistant head coach, passing game coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| Clancy Pendergast | UCLA, 2024–25: analyst | |
| Eric Bieniemy | UCLA, 2024: assistant head coach and offensive coordinator | |
| Ikaika Malloe | UCLA, 2024–25: defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | |
| Jerry Neuheisel | UCLA, 2024: tight ends coach; 2025: assistant head coach and tight ends coach; 2025: interim offensive coordinator, assistant head coach and tight ends coach | |
| Noel Mazzone | UCLA, 2025: offensive assistant | |
| Tino Sunseri | UCLA, 2025: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach |
From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.
How he coached
Foster’s teams went for it on 19% of fourth downs and on 42% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 59% of plays and took 29.3 seconds a play, in 2024.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 12 g | 16 of 83 19% | 42% | 59% | 29.3 | 0.00 |
His seasons as a head coach from 2004 on, from ESPN’s play by play: fourth downs where he went for it out of every fourth-down decision; how often he went when SportsDataverse’s fourth-down model said going for it was the better call; the share of his offense’s plays that were passes; seconds of game clock per offensive play (lower is faster); and expected points added per offensive play (EPA, a measure of how much each play moved the offense toward points). The season in progress counts its games so far. SportsDataverse’s coach tendencies, from ESPN’s play by play; the EPA and the fourth-down model are SportsDataverse’s.