Eric Bieniemy’s UCLA tenure lasted a season.
The Bruins are transferring on from Bieniemy, sources instructed Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger. The former Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator and NFL operating again joined UCLA’s employees in 2024 because the offensive coordinator and assistant head coach following the rent of Deshaun Foster because the crew’s head coach.
UCLA is making a change at offensive coordinator. Eric Bieniemy is out, sources inform @YahooSports. Bruins completed 117th in complete offense this season.
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) December 5, 2024
UCLA went 5-7 in 2024 and was 3-6 within the Big Ten. The Bruins averaged 5.4 yards a play and scored simply 18.4 factors per sport. Only eight groups throughout the highest degree of faculty soccer averaged fewer factors than the Bruins and UCLA scored greater than 20 factors simply twice all season.
Bieniemy, 55, interviewed a number of occasions for NFL head teaching positions whereas he was the Chiefs’ offensive coordinator. He joined Andy Reid’s employees in 2013 when Reid grew to become the Chiefs’ head coach and was the crew’s operating backs coach via the 2017 season. He was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2018 as Patrick Mahomes grew to become the crew’s beginning quarterback.
However, Bieniemy by no means acquired a head teaching job within the NFL and moved on from the Chiefs after the 2022 season. Five NFL groups had job openings that offseason and he interviewed for only one.
Bieniemy grew to become the offensive coordinator for the Washington Commanders in 2023, however he spent only one season with the crew because the group went via wholesale modifications following the season. Washington’s new possession group modified the teaching employees and employed Dan Quinn because the crew’s head coach with former Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury serving because the offensive coordinator for No. 2 total draft choose Jayden Daniels.
Before teaching for the Chiefs, Bieniemy was the offensive coordinator at his alma mater, Colorado, for 2 seasons and had served as an assistant coach with the Minnesota Vikings. It’s unclear simply the place Bieniemy’s subsequent teaching cease shall be and it’d have been onerous to fathom 4 years in the past that Bieniemy can be leaving his third job in three seasons on the finish of 2024 as a substitute of being the top coach of an NFL crew.
