UCLA football coach search committee steeped with exec experience

The research committee of five UCLA members for its next football coach who was revealed Thursday presents heavy strikers from various corners of the world of professional sport, including two who helped to design a rapid turnaround with the NFL Washington commanders.

The director general of commanders Adam Peters and the advisor Bob Myers – who will be joined by the committee by the sports director Casey Waserman, the former NFL Star Eric Kendricks and the deputy director of the associated athletics of the UCLA, Erin Adkins – were part of the team that hired the coach of Washington Dan, who took the commanders NFC championship game in its first season.

They hope to have a similar success in the selection of the successor of the Bruins coach, Deshaun Foster, who was dismissed earlier this month after his team started the season with three consecutive defeats. Each member of the committee will be pushed to find a winner given that they are graduated from the UCLA or work for the school sports department.

“I would like to thank the members of the research committee who, among their love for the UCLA, agreed to contribute their time and their expertise to this process,” said Bruins sports director Martin Jarmond, who will lead the Committee, in a statement. “We will identify, recruit and invest in a leader who has vision, confidence, attitude and proven ability to return UCLA football to national prominence, and we will provide resources to compete and gain at the highest level. It is our commitment to our elders, fans and supporters. ”

An eminent figure with solid links of the missed UCLA in the Committee was Troy Aikman, the former quarter of the Bruins and the temple of renown of professional football which was part of the committee which landed in 2017 Chip Kelly. This hiring of the hottest training candidate on the market was considered a coup, even if Kelly’s results in the six seasons that followed were largely disappointing.

The only Holdover in the committee that hired Kelly is Wasserman, a megadoneur from the UCLA which is also the founder and managing director of the eponymous agency of sporting talents and the media.

After Kelly left Bruins in February 2024 to become the offensive coordinator of Ohio State, Jarmond used an internal research committee made up of sports department employees – including Adkins, which directs the name, image and strategy and initiatives of the department – to select Foster in less than 72 hours.

The UCLA will have much more time to select its next coach since most hires are made in December.

MYERS, a reserve striker in the last basketball team in the National Championship of Bruins in 1995, hired Steve Kerr in his role as director general of the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors won four NBA titles under Kerr, who was also selected the coach of the NBA year during the 2015-16 season.

After leaving the Warriors in 2023, Myers worked as an ESPN basketball analyst and was appointed to the board of directors of the University of California. Myers also helped Peters, a former defensive end for the UCLA football team, in the search for coaches who landed Quinn.

Before joining the commanders, Peters had a successful career as Vice-President of the Player Staff and Deputy Managing Director of San Francisco 49ers, helping the team appear in four NFC championship games and two Super Bowls during their seven seasons with the franchise.

The youngest member of the committee is Kendricks, the former award -winning secondary secondary with Bruins who is currently a free agent after 10 seasons of the NFL which included an appearance in Pro Bowl in 2019.

The UCLA said that he would have no additional comments on research or candidates until a rental is announced.