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‘I’m confident in DeShaun’: UCLA’s Martin Jarmond backs coach amid 1-5 start

Eight months after he called DeShaun Foster “the right man for this job,” UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond continued to stand by his man amid a rocky start for the Bruins’ new football coach.

The Bruins are 1-5 for the first time since Chip Kelly’s second season in 2019. Their offense is among the worst in the nation. They haven’t won a home game in three tries and have lost five games in a row.

As one might expect when it comes to the most important hire of his nearly 4½ years on the job, Jarmond is remaining an optimist.