LOS ANGELES - UCLA football has said released another major member of their coaching staff as the 2025 season continues to spiral out of control.
The team announced on Tuesday that offensive coordinator Tino Sunseri would be leaving the team in a mutual parting of ways. UCLA has now either released or agreed to part ways with the three main pillars of the coaching structure after the departures of Sunseri, head coach Deshaun Foster, who was let go by the team after three straight losses to start the season, and defensive coordinator Ikaika Malloe, who left the team shortly after the Foster decision was announced. UCLA remains winless four weeks into the 2025 season, with their most recent defeat coming at the hands of Northwestern in a 17-14 loss.
Tino Sunseri is out as UCLA’s offensive coordinator, source confirms to ESPN. Jerry Neuheisel will take over as the program’s offensive play caller. LA Times first reported the change.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) October 1, 2025
The team has put together a committee of alumni and athletics department executives to lead the search for the team's next head coach as interim head coach Tim Skipper currenrtly leads the team, but it is unknown if similar searches will be made during the season to find replacements for either Sunseri or Malloe.
The UCLA offense under Sunseri had been outstandingly ineffective. The Bruins have the lowest total yards, average total yards, total points and points per game in the Big Ten. While not the outright worst at either passing or rushing, the Bruins are in the bottom four of each category as well.
Sunseri was in his first season with the Bruins and his first season as the lead offensive coordinator of a team. He was previously the quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator with Mike Shanahan at Indiana before departing Indiana for UCLA this season.
Tight ends coach Jerry Neuheisel will take over Sunseri's former duties for the time being as the Bruins prepare to host no. 7 Penn State on Saturday at the Rose Bowl, their toughest challenge yet in a season that has been marred by the Bruins' underachievement.
Neuheisel has been a member of the UCLA coaching staff since 2018, working in several roles before becoming tight ends coach in the 2024 season.
Considering the start to the season for UCLA, drastic measures need to be taken. The Bruins have entered serious danger of a winless season as their schedule only becomes a more and more difficult battle. So many shakeups to a program's coaching staff certainly don't make things any easier for the team, but things also can't get much worse.