Eventually, changes are coming to college football. The entire country is waiting for the House settlement, hopefully giving clarity on how the sport’s future will look. Specifically, with the NCAA transfer portal and how players are paid.
Coaches across the country are being asked questions on potential future rules. UCLA‘s DeShaun Foster is no different, giving his thoughts on players potentially signing multi-year deals with their schools. Foster seems to believe we will eventually get to that point.
“I think, yeah, it’s eventually going to get to that,” Foster said. “We’ll see once the settlement comes down. We can get some rules and really figure out what’s going to happen. But I can see a future of that for sure.”
UCLA has been at the center of some big-time transfer portal recruitments this offseason. Nico Iamaleava has received the most attention after spending last year as the Tennessee starting quarterback. His leaving Knoxville has been a massive story, spending three seasons with the program.
However, the multi-year deals question might be more related to Nico’s brother, Madden Iamaleava. He signed with Arkansas coming out of high school, only to leave just after a few months. Iamaleava entered the transfer portal and signed with UCLA — a place he was once committed to during his recruitment. Arkansas is now asking for the NIL money Iamaleava received to be paid back in the form of a buyout.
“I have spoken with the leadership team at Arkansas Edge and expressed my support in their pursuit to enforce their rights under any agreement violated by our student-athletes moving forward,” Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek said in a statement. “We appreciate Edge’s investment in our student-athletes and acknowledge the enforcement of these agreements is vital in our new world of college athletics. We look forward to continued dialogue with all parties in resolving these.”
While Foster did answer a big-picture off-field question, most of his focus is likely on the upcoming 2025 season. He is entering a second season in charge of the program, hoping for better results this go-round. UCLA finished with a 5-7 record, the school’s first losing season since 2020.
Aug. 30 will serve as the Bruins’ season opener, facing a former Pac-12 foe in Utah at the Rose Bowl. Ten total power conference foes are on the schedule this year, plus two quality Group of Five opponents in UNLV and New Mexico.
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