WESTWOOD — Tim Skipper lurked in the background of the Wasserman Football Center since joining UCLA football in mid-July.

Yes, he was at the program’s fall Costa Mesa training camp and helped arrange practice schedules for then-head coach DeShaun Foster from week to week. But Skipper’s pulse was not in the on-the-field operations for the Bruins (0-3) and their no-good, very bad start to the 2025 season, a slumbering crash course that led to Foster’s firing Sunday .

Offensive lineman Garrett DiGiorgio said he didn’t know Skipper before Sunday’s meeting when athletic director Martin Jarmond introduced the former Fresno State interim coach as taking up UCLA’s interim mantle. DiGiorigio, the longest-tenured starter on the Bruins, said he searched online for what he could learn about Skip

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