UCLA HC Search – Wild West Sports

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- September 25, 2025 at 1:02 am #2194
  BigBalls
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  Names coming up the most at the moment, starting with the most likely to get the job:
  
  Tony White, DC Free Shoes U, Would definitely take the job if offered
  
  Brett Brennan HC Zona, Played at UCLA, rumored to have interest
  
  Will Stein Oregon OC apparently will be a hot name this hiring season in college football
  
  PJ Fleck HC Minnesota, Credible unnamed sources insist he is on the list of candidates and has interest.
  
  Matt Entz, HC Fresno State, if UCLA misses on their higher choices
  
  Matt Campbell, HC, Iowa State. This guy just comes up for a lot of jobs. Doubt this one.
  
  Jedd Fisch, HC Washington, his family hates Seattle. Word is he has interest. His buyout drops from $10mill to $6mill in January 2026. Not terribly high as buyouts go.
  
  Fisch or Fleck would be good hires in my opinion.
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- September 25, 2025 at 4:15 am #2196
  
  Old Pueblo
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  Brennan: an alum just donated $50mm to the athletic dept. if they go 8-4 maybe 9 with a bowl game, he’s getting paid. 5-7 he’ll he around for another year. I’m more worried about the DC getting hired away at this point.
  
  Fisch: yeah i’ve joked about it but i could see it. I’m sure wasserman can pony up the money for the buyout and salary. And jedd is a mercenary.
  
  but the real question is who would want to coach that mess? It’s going to take years to turn that program if even possible
  - September 25, 2025 at 5:44 pm #2268
    
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    but the real question is who would want to coach that mess?
    
    But so many here think Fisch would leave a great situation at UW to ‘coach that mess in UCLA’. That is pretty funny…
  - September 29, 2025 at 4:21 pm #2420
    
    Daystalker
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    Fisch is Jewish though, will UCLA even allow him on campus?
  - September 29, 2025 at 4:40 pm #2422
    
    BigBalls
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    Almost every Jewish person I know is a UCLA fan/alum. Still hasn’t helped the Bruins.
    
    I have no idea why Fisch would be interested in the UCLA job but apparently he is open to talking. Could be that he is trying to be nice to people he knows in Westwood. Having said that, I think the Bruins can bounce back with the right hire.
- September 25, 2025 at 3:37 pm #2225
  
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  It will be Tony White. It’s probably already done behind the scenes just have to wait until the season is over for him to announce. UCLA is a poverty program right now, both in available funding and in the perception amongst college football that it has the desire to actually support a football program properly in today’s landscape.
  - September 25, 2025 at 3:56 pm #2231
    
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    Fisch would be a really good move. I don’t know about Tony White. White seems to be highly regarded.
- September 25, 2025 at 5:40 pm #2262
  
  mandb
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  There is the ‘his family hates Seattle’ stuff again. They don’t but after moving 10 times in the previous 15 years, they only want to finish high school with the friends they made while in Tucson. Like with recruits, weather is very low on the priority list. So many top shelf recruits choose to go to these ‘northern’ schools.
  
  Fisch isn’t going to take another college job. If he has success, he will go to the NFL Why would he take a ‘step down’ to go to UCLA? Oh yeah…the weather. Laughable. If the NFL has their sights on Fisch, do you think he would turn it down if offered to coach in Chicago, Green Bay, New England, etc. because of the weather?
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