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UCLA football hires Tino Sunseri as offensive coordinator: What to know
UCLA football coach DeShaun Foster has moved quickly to hire Tino Sunseri as its next offensive coordinator.
The Bruins moved on from Eric Bieniemy last week after one season as the program’s coordinator.
Sunseri spent this season as the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Indiana.
He shared coordinating responsibilities with Mike Shanahan, who served as the primary playcaller for Curt Cignetti’s offense.
Sunseri was credited with being responsible for bringing Kurtis Rourke in from the transfer portal before the Hoosiers’ successful season.
“Tino Sunseri is a natural leader of young men and a rising star in coaching,” Foster said in a statement. “He puts his quarterbacks in positions to succeed and it shows when you look at their production. Players will feed off his passion for development and I can’t wait to have him in our building.”
Rourke completed 202 of 287 pass attempts for 2,827 yards, 27 touchdowns and four interceptions. He also rushed for two touchdowns.
The Hoosiers averaged 43.3 points per game, which ranks second nationally in scoring offense. Rourke and Indiana lead all FBS programs with a team passing efficiency rating of 179.
Indiana will play at Notre Dame on Dec. 20 in a College Football Playoff opening-round game. Sunseri is expected to remain with the team throughout the playoff run.
Foster finished his first season as UCLA’s head coach with a 5-7 overall record, which includes a loss to Indiana at the Rose Bowl in September.
What roles will Tino Sunseri have at UCLA?
Sunseri was announced as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, meaning he will handle the duties divided between two individual coaches during the 2024 season.
Bieniemy served as the offensive coordinator while Ted White worked with the signal callers.
Who are some of the other notable coaches Tino Sunseri has worked with?
Sunseri worked under Jimbo Fisher at Florida State (2016-17), Jeremy Pruitt at Tennessee (2018) and Nick Saban at Alabama (2019-20).
What is Tino Sunseri’s relationship with DeShaun Foster?
Tino’s father Sal Sunseri was the Carolina Panthers’ defensive line coach while Foster was the team’s running back. Tino would often go out to practice to spend time with his father in Carolina.
“I can’t tell you how excited I am to be here and how much respect I have for coach Foster,” Sunseri said in a video posted by UCLA football on X. “The coolest thing about this is that me and coach Foster’s relationship goes back to a time when my dad was coaching with the Carolina Panthers and I wanted to be in the building as much as I could.”
Who else will join the UCLA offensive staff?
The Bruins will also have to hire an offensive line coach following Juan Castillo’s departure. He arrived with Bieniemy for the 2024 season.
Andy Kwon has reportedly been targeted by Foster and UCLA, according to Football Scoop’s John Brice. Kwon currently works at Arkansas State.
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Fewer Christmas cards are being sent these days — a 2024 poll found 6 in 10 adults received fewer, and 3 in 10 planned to skip sending them altogether. Gen Z may be moving away from the tradition, but many still keep cards as sentimental keepsakes.
LAFAYETTE, IN — Hopes for a white Christmas are fading quickly in Indiana.
“I know earlier in the month we were thinking we might have a higher chance of a white Christmas,” National Weather Service meteorologist Cody Moore said, “but unfortunately, I have some bad news for you. A lot of long-range guidance has been consistent showing a pattern on Christmas Day featuring much warmer than normal temperatures for the region and the chance for some rainfall.
“It does look like we’ll be above average, temperatures at least in the 40s, maybe 50s,” Moore said on Wednesday, just three days after subzero temperatures pummeled the area.
With still eight days until Christmas, the forecasts closer to Dec. 25 might bump the expected high temps up even into the 60s, Moore said.
Normal temperatures this time of year for Lafayette are 36 for a high and 22 for a low.
“It looks like you might be able to keep your heavy winter jackets in the closet for now,” Moore said.
How will a Christmas with temperatures in the 40s, 50s or even 60s compare to Christmases past?
In 1982, Lafayette’s record-warm Christmas was 64 degrees. Its record cold temperature was 12 below zero in 2000.
So now that the dreams of a white Christmas appear dashed, what about January or February?
The Climate Prediction Center published a three-month forecast in November, and an update is expected in the next couple of days.
But last month, center’s forecast for January, February and March was for Hoosiers to have an equal chance of above and/or below average temperatures.
“We’ll see how that translates with the storm track,” Moore said.
The Climate Prediction Center forecasts warmer than normal temperatures in the southern United States and below normal temperatures in the Northern Plains.
“That puts the storm track right through Indiana, which makes sense because the Climate Prediction Center has Indiana as a bullseye for a pattern favoring above-normal precipitation,” Moore said. Temperatures will decide whether that precipitation falls as rain or snow — or ice or freezing rain.
Reach Ron Wilkins at rwilkins@jconline.com. Follow on Twitter: @RonWilkins2.
Former UConn forward, NBC Sports broadcaster Donny Marshall knows a thing or two about talented UConn guards.
The former Husky played for legendary coach Jim Calhoun and was teammates with the fifth pick in the 1996 NBA Draft, 10-time NBA All-Star Ray Allen. Watching UConn play against Butler on Tuesday night, Marshall said he sees a lot of Allen in reigning Indiana Mr. Basketball Braylon Mullins.
Mullins made the second start of his career against the Bulldogs. The former Greenfield-Central star missed UConn’s first six games of the regular season with an injury, but the 6-foot-6 guard is quickly coming into his own and showing why he’s a projected lottery pick in the 2026 NBA Draft.
Against Butler, Mullins showed off his sweet jump shot, going 2 for 5 from 3-point range. He finished with 12 points, three rebounds, two assists, two blocks and one steal.
“He’s a scorer,” Butler coach Thad Matta said of Mullins. “He’s got a scorer’s mentality. He gets his shot off quick. They move him around and create some angles for him. Obviously, he’s a heck of a player.”
Mullins did most of his damage in the first half, scoring eight of his 12 points before halftime. The former five-star recruit was the highest-ranked player in UConn’s 2025 class. Butler’s top-ranked recruit, Azavier “Stink” Robinson isn’t the NBA prospect Mullins is, but he held his own after a shaky start to the game.
Robinson has been thrust into the starting lineup with starter Jalen Jackson out for the season with an ankle injury. Robinson looked out of sorts at times in the first half, going scoreless with two assists and a turnover. In the second half, Matta moved him off the ball, giving him catch-and-shoot looks, and opportunities to drive to the basket without worrying about running the offense.
The former Lawrence North star responded with one of the better halves of his career, scoring 10 points on 3 for 6 shooting, including 2 for 5 from 3 to go along with two rebounds, one assist, one steal and one turnover.
Facing a veteran team like UConn, nothing comes easy. UConn’s guards harass ball handlers and getting into an offensive set is not easy. This time last year, Robinson was still in high school and, on most nights, the most athletic player on the court. Playing a UConn team where the goal is a national championship, Robinson was forced to grow, and he did not back down from the challenge in the second half.
“He’s coming along,” Matta said of Robinson. “That’s the first Big East road game of his career against maybe the best team in the country. It tells you how tough he is. He’s resilient. He keeps going.”
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