UCLA Football: Bruins Lose Director of Recruiting to Oregon

The Bruins have lost a new hire a month after bringing him on.

A month after the UCLA Bruins hired Darren Uscher to be their new director of recruiting, he is now heading to their Pac-12 rival. Uscher is leaving Westwood behind to take on a new personnel and recruiting position with his former school.

Oregon is expected to add UCLA general manager Darren Uscher in a personnel and recruiting role, sources tell @247sports.

Uscher, who worked at Oregon before heading to UCLA, was previously a lead recruiting figure at Auburn and Boise State.https://t.co/dJORJ80Uo5 pic.twitter.com/MWWkze3yL2

— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) February 22, 2024

It could be that Uscher had plans to work with Chip Kelly, who has since left UCLA to be the offensive coordinator at Ohio State. With DeShaun Foster as new HC, Uscher may have been more inclined to leave. 

Oregon might have also offered Uscher a promotion from the position he was set to take with the Bruins. Uscher has previously served in a personnel and scouting position at Oregon, Auburn, and Boise State. 

He clearly has the kind of experience that many teams consider to be highly valuable, and Oregon was able to pull him back from UCLA. 

Foster might be wanting to also build his own staff to take the Bruins into a new era, and that might not have included Uscher. Either way, the Bruins will have to find a new director of recruiting.