LOS ANGELES — As Bob Chesney walked to the podium in the Luskin Hotel ballroom on UCLA’s campus, a Bruin-branded football rolled off the table in front of the 48-year-old as he whisked by.
Chesney, introduced Tuesday morning as UCLA’s 20th head football coach, pointed at athletic director Martin Jarmond.
“Ooh, that’s not good,” Chesney said, before laying down a joke.
“That was you that fumbled it – not me,” he said.
In years past, such a moment before Chesney’s opening remarks, just minutes after first addressing his new football team in the Wasserman Football Center, may have been seen as a negative sign of what’s to come – a reminder of the rollercoaster, and as-of-late laughing state, of UCLA football, which stumbled to a finish of a historically bad 2025 season just weeks ago.
But across the next 40 minutes, through an energetic opening statement and 28 minutes of questions and answers with the Los Angeles media corps, Chesney never looked down at notes. Comfortable, dressed in a dark blue jacket with grey stripes and a UCLA pin on his collar, his eyes pierced the reporters in front of him as he fired with lengthy speeches on what it’s going to take to win at UCLA.
Bob Chesney had officially arrived at UCLA.
“You come here to UCLA, and everything I loved about every place I’ve ever been is all packaged in one, right here,” said Chesney, who will fly back to Virginia to prepare No. 12-seed James Madison for its first-round College Football Playoff game against No. 5 Oregon next week. “It’s all here, and it’s all present here.”
UCLA chancellor Julio Frenk waxed about the important symmetry between athletics and academics – of which Chesney learned as an assistant at academically focused Division III Johns Hopkins in Baltimore – and Jarmond spoke of what led Chesney to become UCLA’s football coach, describing him as the “engine” of every successful program he’s touched (to a 132-51 overall record across 16 seasons).
“Bob is a guy you bet on,” said Bob Myers, UCLA alumnus and former Golden State Warriors general manager, who served on the hiring committee.
Chesney knows there are challenges ahead. He’s never coached or recruited on the West Coast. But Chesney knows one thing: He sees where he wants to take UCLA, somewhere it’s arguably never been before.
“We don’t want to be the other school in this town,” said Chesney, whose contract is for five years and $33.75 million overall. “We need to be the school in this town, and I promise you that will happen very soon.”
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