{"id":206248,"date":"2025-09-06T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206248\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:59:13","slug":"letters-coach-deshaun-foster-and-bruins-are-in-deep-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206248\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Coach DeShaun Foster and Bruins are in deep trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>DeShaun Foster is a beloved Bruin, so the doubts of his being in over his head as the UCLA football coach are merely whispered. Attending a recent panel discussion, I heard Times columnist Bill Plaschke refer to Coach Foster as \u201ca placeholder.\u201d Saturday\u2019s game against Utah only solidified both perceptions. In today\u2019s college football landscape there are plenty of teams who use the transfer portal to be competitive while building toward something better. One game in, UCLA appears to be failing miserably to do so. As a 42-year season-ticket holder and alumnus, the football program, its fans, and the university deserve so much more.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Forseth<br \/>Murrieta<\/p>\n<p>All we heard from UCLA preseason was Nico, Nico, Nico [Iamaleava]. After watching <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/story\/2025-08-31\/plaschke-on-ucla-football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his performance against unranked Utah<\/a>, he has to be the most overrated transfer in the country. Add in the fact that the defense was absolutely pathetic, it\u2019s another losing season. Rose Bowl you better order more tarps.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Novak<br \/>La Crescenta<\/p>\n<p>As I walked out of the UCLA-Utah football game in disgust in the fourth quarter after watching an uninspired and incompetent defense and a team that looked, frankly, soft, I had to smile as the PA system in the Rose Bowl appropriately blasted the song \u201cBuild Me Up Buttercup.\u201d Uninspired and untalented. Basically, buttercups.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Abajian<br \/>Alta Loma<\/p>\n<p>Will somebody please explain to the Bruin defense that it is called TACKLE football??<\/p>\n<p>Steve Cizmar<br \/>Huntington Beach<\/p>\n<p>After UCLA\u2019s humiliating, devastating and humbling 43-10 loss to Utah in the season opener, coach DeShaun Foster <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/story\/2025-09-02\/ucla-football-deshaun-foster-reaction-loss-utah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said, \u201cWe were close<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Close to what, Division II?<\/p>\n<p>Jack Wolf<br \/>Westwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; DeShaun Foster is a beloved Bruin, so the doubts of his being in over his head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":206249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[32072,1582,276,113478,113479,262,2442,1910,4512,2961,19945,224,2444,5337,2611,5950,47641,3007,2501,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-206248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-bruins","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-coach-deshaun-foster","12":"tag-deep-trouble","13":"tag-defense","14":"tag-dodgers","15":"tag-game","16":"tag-heart","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-letter","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-times","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-nico","23":"tag-season","24":"tag-surgery","25":"tag-team","26":"tag-ucla","27":"tag-utah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115160073181402980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}