Penn State is heading to the West Coast to play its first highway sport of the season, and they’ll achieve this in opposition to a UCLA Bruins program present process some teaching turnover in the midst of the season. After beforehand transferring on from head coach DeShaun Foster simply weeks into the season, the Bruins are reportedly making a change at offensive coordinator days earlier than Penn State takes on UCLA in Pasadena in Week 6.
In accordance with Adam Rittenberg of ESPN, UCLA has moved on from Tino Sunseri as offensive coordinator and assigned playcalling responsibility to tight ends coach Jerry Neuheisel.
UCLA is coming into the week with the nation’s 119th complete offense with a mean of 321.3 yards per sport. UCLA’s 14.3 factors per sport ranks 134th within the nation, the working sport ranks 106th (124.25 yards per sport), and passing sport ranks 99th (197.0 yards per sport) within the nation. All of that is off an offseason the place UCLA turned heads with the switch addition of quarterback Nico Iamaleava from Tennessee.
Neuheisel joined the UCLA teaching workers as a graduate assistant in 2018 and later took on the position as extensive receivers coach in 2021. He held that title for 3 seasons earlier than transferring to tight ends coach going into the 2024 season. He’s the son of former UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel and he performed quarterback for the Bruins.
That provides a little bit of uncertainty to Penn State defensive cooridnator Jim Knowles in making ready the Penn State protection for this week’s matchup, however it might not be an excessive amount of to be anxious about from a defensive teaching standpoint. Penn State’s protection has not been the priority this season even after the loss to Oregon final weekend. There could possibly be some new wrinkles within the teaching change happening with UCLA, however the Bruins might not have a bag of methods deep sufficient to significantly threaten the Nittany Lions this week.
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