The UCLA Football team made immediate changes to their coaching staff after their regular season loss to Cal, starting with the firing of OC Kennedy Polamalu.
It did not take long for UCLA Football Head Coach Jim Mora to start making changes to his coaching staff after last night’s 36-10 loss to Cal.
In a season that saw the Bruins go 4-8, primarily due to the lack of a proper offense, Mora has made his first termination of the off-season as Offensive Coordinator and running backs coach Kennedy Polamalu has been relieved of both positions.
Polamalu was promoted from RB coach last year and was intent on bringing some power schemes to the Bruin offense after Noel Mazzone and his spread offense left for Texas A&M.
#UCLA announces that Kennedy Polamalu's contract as OC will not be renewed pic.twitter.com/JfpjCTcOwP
— Bruin Report Online (@BruinReport) November 27, 2016
Unfortunately, early in the season we saw that the new offense was not working out. The offensive line was atrocious, there was no running game and receivers could not catch balls.
It also did not help that starting QB Josh Rosen was out for the season after injuring his shoulder against Arizona State, six games in.
The Bruins only won one of their last seven games and finished 10th in the Pac-12 in total offense with only 295.6 yards per game.
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So now the search for a new OC is in the works. This is a good because the Bruins can start anew with shaping their offense, something they should have done last year. The bad thing about this is that Rosen and the offense will have three OC’s in three years, which is no good for stability.