DeShaun Foster was in the final stretch of recruiting in his role as the running backs coach at Texas Tech when his caller ID showed a familiar name: Jim Mora.
Holmesian deduction wasn’t required to figure out what his former boss at UCLA might be calling about. It had been about two weeks since Mora hired Jedd Fisch as the offensive coordinator at UCLA and the Bruins were still without a running backs coach.
Foster, one of the best running backs in school history, left his post as UCLA’s director of player development after the 2015 season to take his first full-time coaching position at Texas Tech and was an obvious candidate to fill the vacancy left by Kennedy Polamalu’s dismissal several weeks prior.