UCLA head coach DeShaun Foster looks ahead to Week 1 opponent Hawaii 8/26

you guys all good good to go all right game week I'm ready to go players are fired up we excited um for this game traveling to Hawaii so you know we have a few Hawaiian players that are happy to get back and play on the island and I'll open it up to you guys um leaving Thursday yes okay um Hawaii obviously played last weekend what did you see when you watched that game same thing we saw in film you know some high energy guys um play together um offensive defensively you know just a team so um I just told my guys you know no matter our opponent we just got to get out there and play you know it really doesn't matter who we're going against you know just play our Brewing standard we should be good their quarterback I think threw for two TDS ran for two is he kind of a dual threat a little bit I would say that you know he ran um a lot more in this game than he did last season I would assume so well I would say I'd assume but you know he's a good quarterback we're going to hopefully you know contain him and just continue to um play good defense and cause habit you you guys got to scout them uh yet they got to shake off the rust does one way outweigh the other as far as you know would you rather had one way or the other no that's football you got line up and play anyway so it was good that we were able to see um a game before our game but other than that still football so what you think about his I guess his big playability I think he led the FBS last year with nine throws of at least 50 or more yards I mean I guess what's the key to uh you know stopping that um just getting hits on them you know you got to find ways to to um to get him out of his rhythm you know offensively so um I'm just you know just going to come in there and you know hopefully our friend does a good job we're able to to get some hits on him or you know at least get pressure on him so he's not just sitting in the pocket Personnel wise any updates like KJ Wallace how's he doing he's doing good he'll be out here full go to there um Right Guard is it makah Haley I know there was some competition there yeah it's most likely probably the only going to be uh hopefully there's no type of injuries or anything that happened this week but yeah should be all are you going to release a depth chart uh this week before the uh first game yeah you guys are good one had some uh recognition on Friday night what was that experience like for you it was good just to go back to the high school see a lot of my teammates ex- coaches U couple teachers so you know it was it was pretty exciting um you know testing is where it started so it was uh it was like it was good to go back home at uh qb2 would you say Justin Martins won that spot yeah you would say it was Justin Martin how was it going out to the Rose Ball what were some of the value of doing that on satnd just the whole community unication from um coach to player um using the iPads um see who we have in the Box communicating like that just uh just kind of wanted to get out there and just kind of give them a little mock game just so they can uh you know have the special teams tied in with the offense and defense I mean Hawaii could they just yell down do you their field I'm not going to talk about their fields you know um I'm just glad that we'll be able to play a game this weekend what is there anything that was like in retrospect you're like wow I'm glad we did that to get that kind of kink out this was helpful just so it's familiar to guys just so it's not new on game day really you know for coaches and players do you kind of have to tone the guys down a little bit uh keep them even killed with the excitement of of game finally being here um you can say that to a bit but you know I still want them to have energy and stuff you got to be enthusiastic out here you got to be excited to be able to play a game you know it's zero week so I'm fired up I know they are and um I'm not holding them back so they want to let it out let it out you think about the totality of Camp anybody come out as maybe a pleasant surprise somebody who maybe developed a little quicker than you thought or or just improved from the spring to the fall at a significant rate um cam Jones did a good job in those three weeks you know just uh picking up the offense as fast as he could and being able to just play fast you know he was running around making plays so that was pretty exciting are there any positions battles still going on right now or do you feel like you know who's going to line up with the first train for the opener the only ones that still might be is the the kicker and punter everything else is pretty solid would you say some of the guys that kind of were going through the alization process like Jaylen Berger are they prepared uh who else was it I can't remember are they prepared to play would you oh Shere both of those guys would you say they're prepared I would say they're pretty close you know we'll we'll see how their conditioning goes this weekend to put our finalize of what we're going to do a couple days ago uh there was a the NCAA football oversight committee uh had a recommendation to eliminate the spring transfer portal window uh just your thoughts on that uh how much that would maybe help you guys as a staff and maybe from a players perspective do you think that's a positive thing or um I think just one portal could help would just be a little easier you know um just to maneuver but um coaches can leave at any time so players should be able to too we saw Kanye Clark in the mix at return uh last week he had one of the best returns uh is he in the mix to to actually uh maybe contribute in that spot uh he has a shot you know we're pretty deep at return though but he has a shot coach you know you're busy with prep obviously watching Hawaii did you get to take a few minutes to yourself to kind of just watch the landscape of of college football this weekend and just enjoy some other games yeah just tried to watch as many games as as you could just to see just to learn some stuff that's going on in college football you know you can always learn a little bit from every game that's that's being played so I try to watch as many as I want but I for sure wanted to watch a lot did anything stand out to you not really nothing nothing too crazy but uh we'll have a couple plays that we show our team on Thursday thank you than you guys appreciate it