Sources: Chanticleers, NC State's Beck near deal

Tim Beck and Coastal Carolina are finalizing a woody to marque him the school's adjacent caput coach, sources told ESPN connected Sunday.

Beck, the violative coordinator astatine NC State, is finalizing a five-year declaration that volition wage him astir $1 cardinal per year, sources said. That declaration volition see beardown incentives for performance, overmuch similar erstwhile manager Jamey Chadwell.

Sources said an announcement of Beck's hiring is expected aboriginal Sunday, with the squad slated to beryllium told aboriginal connected Sunday afternoon.

Beck is simply a longtime violative coordinator and playcaller who has served arsenic an adjunct manager astatine immoderate of assemblage football's apical programs, including Texas, Ohio State and Nebraska.

He replaces Chadwell, who agreed to a seven-year deal to go Liberty's coach, sources told ESPN connected Sunday. Chadwell had turned Coastal Carolina into 1 of the country's apical Group of 5 programs, going 31-6 the past 3 seasons.

Sources told ESPN that the speedy timeline comes from Coastal Carolina officials preparing extensively successful each of the past 2 years to regenerate Chadwell. By digging successful connected candidates, schoolhouse officials did not person to prosecute a hunt steadfast and were capable to determination swiftly.

Beck comes to Coastal Carolina with a beardown violative résumé. He has coached galore apical quarterbacks successful assemblage football, recruiting Todd Reesing to Kansas and tutoring Joe Burrow successful his aboriginal years astatine Ohio State, Sam Ehlinger astatine Texas and J.T. Barrett astatine Ohio State. Most recently, Beck worked with Devin Leary, who was 1 of the country's astir productive quarterbacks successful 2021, erstwhile helium threw for 35 touchdowns and 5 interceptions.

At Nebraska, Beck was a finalist for the Broyles Award successful 2012 and 2013. Coastal Carolina would beryllium Beck's archetypal FBS head-coaching job, but helium was a precocious schoolhouse caput manager astatine 3 schools for 9 seasons.

Beck, 56, brings immoderate familiarity with Coastal Carolina; his daughter, Haylie, played volleyball astatine the school.

He besides is acquainted with Joe Moglia, Coastal Carolina's erstwhile manager who present serves arsenic the school's seat of athletics/executive manager for football/executive advisor for the president. Beck was an adjunct manager astatine Nebraska erstwhile Moglia near the concern satellite and spent 2 years astatine the schoolhouse arsenic an off-field adjunct to interruption backmost into coaching.