Tim Beck – the fourth football head coach in Coastal Carolina’s 20-year history – joined the Chanticleers in Dec. 2022 and is in his third season leading the program.
An experienced leader with 36 years of coaching experience, Beck brought with him 18 years of Power 5 coaching experience to CCU, including spending the 12 years as an offensive coordinator at Nebraska, Ohio State, Texas and NC State.
He has led Coastal to a pair of bowl game appearances, including a win in the 2023 Hawai’i Bowl. As a collegiate coach, he has helped guide teams to 18 postseason bowl games, including this season. Beck has also coached in a postseason bowl game in every year since 2007, including helping Ohio State compete in the College Football Playoff in 2016.
Coastal finished 6-7 in 2024, playing in the Myrtle Beach Bowl. The team battled late in the season to pick up a pair of wins to earn bowl eligibility. The Chants’ offense averaged near five yards per carry a year ago (4.6) while covering 2,242 yards on the ground, 2,616 yards through the air with 41 scores. Six players earned all-league honors including first teamers Clev Lubin and Matthew McDoom.
In his first season in Conway, Beck led the Chanticleers to an 8-5 record and the second bowl victory in program history. Coastal reeled off five consecutive wins, including the program’s first win ever at Appalachian State, while starting three different quarterbacks. The Chanticleers won five consecutive Sun Belt Conference games for the first time since 2020 and notched eight wins for the fourth consecutive season.
Wide receiver Sam Pinckney became the Sun Belt’s all-time leader in receiving yards while also setting an NCAA record with 58 consecutive games.
The offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at NC State from 2020-22, Beck helped lead the Wolfpack to three-consecutive eight-plus win seasons, three-straight bowl appearances, and a combined record of 25-11.
Recognized as the nation’s eighth-best recruiter by 247Sports.com in 2020, Beck has been a three-time nominee for the Broyles Award, an award given to the nation’s top assistant coach in all of FBS.
Beck’s NC State offense ranked in the top half of the highly-touted Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in scoring offense, total offense, and passing offense, while continuing to set program records along the way.
Under Beck’s tutelage, Leary set a new NC State school record for most touchdown passes in a single season in 2021 with 35. He became one of just three quarterbacks in ACC history to post a 3,400-yard and 35-touchdown regular season. He also passed for 27 touchdowns in ACC play, a mark that led the conference, and he became the first Pack quarterback to throw for four or more touchdowns against five ACC opponents.
Prior to joining the Wolfpack in 2020, Beck coached for three years as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Texas from 2017-19.
Before joining the Longhorns, Beck was at the offensive coordinator at Ohio State from 2015-16 where his offenses helped lead the Buckeyes to back-to-back double-digit win seasons, going 12-1 in 2015 and 11-2 in 2016.
Between 2011-14, Beck’s Nebraska offenses ranked among the best in the Big Ten Conference and his passing attack amassed more than 10,000 yards during that time with 86 touchdowns. In his four seasons as coordinator, the Huskers averaged 33.5 points per game. The Huskers broke more than 50 individual records, including career marks for passing yards, completions, passing touchdowns, yards from scrimmage, and total offense.
Prior to Nebraska, Beck was at Kansas where he was the Jayhawks’ receivers coach in each of his three seasons (2005-07). He was promoted to passing game coordinator in 2007.
Beck came to KU as one of the most respected high school coaches in the state of Texas, serving three seasons at Summit High in Mansfield. He was the 2003 District Coach of the Year, and a season later, Summit High advanced to the quarterfinals of the state playoffs with a 9-4 record.
Beck was head coach at R.L. Turner High in Carrollton, Texas, from 1999-2001, leading the school to back-to-back playoff appearances and consecutive winning seasons for the first time in 25 years. Beck was named the district coach of the year in 2000.
Prior to coaching in the Texas prep ranks, Beck worked at Missouri State for three seasons from 1996-98, including one season as the offensive coordinator.
Beck started his coaching career as an assistant at Miramar (Fla.) High School in 1988-89 and then moved to Illinois State as outside linebackers and punters coach in 1990. He spent two seasons on Bill Snyder’s Kansas State staff (1991-92) as a graduate assistant.
An Ohio native, Beck played one year of football at Central Florida (1985), and he graduated from there in 1988 with a degree in liberal studies. He also has a master’s in counseling and guidance from Kansas State University (1992).
Beck and his wife, Tamara, have two children – a son, Jordan, and a daughter, Haylie Marie. Haylie is a 2021 graduate of Coastal Carolina and was a member of the volleyball team from 2017-19 and the beach volleyball team from 2018-19.
THE BECK FILE
Born: March 14, 1966
Hometown: Youngstown, Ohio
Wife: Tamara
Children: Jordan, Haylie Marie
Education: UCF (1988); Kansas State (1992)
Year in Coaching: 37th
Twitter: @
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Instagram: @
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BECK'S COACHING CAREER
- 1988-89 — Miramar (Fla.) HS (Assistant Coach)
- 1990 — Illinois State (OLB/Punters)
- 1991-92 — Kansas State (GA)
- 1993-95 — Saguaro (AZ) HS (Head Coach)
- 1996 — Missouri State (Wide Receivers)
- 1997 — Missouri State (Pass Game Coordinator/WR)
- 1998 — Missouri State (Offensive Coordinator/QB)
- 1999-01 — R.L. Turner (TX) HS (Head Coach)
- 2002-04 — Mansfield Summitt (TX) HS (Head Coach)
- 2005-06 — Kansas (Wide Receivers)
- 2007 — Kansas (Pass Game Coordinator/WR)
- 2008-10 — Nebraska (Running Backs)
- 2011-14 — Nebraska (Offensive Coordinator/QB)
- 2015-16 — Ohio State (Co-Offensive Coordinator/QB)
- 2017-19 — Texas (Offensive Coordinator/QB)
- 2020-22 — NC State (Offensive Coordinator/QB)
- 2023-pres. — Coastal Carolina (Head Coach)
BECK’S HEAD COACHING RECORD
2023 — Coastal Carolina (8-5, 5-3 SBC) • Hawai’i Bowl Champions
2024 — Coastal Carolina (6-6, 3-5 SBC) • Myrtle Beach Bowl
TWO SEASONS — 14-11 (.560) Overall / 8-8 (.500) Sun Belt Conference
