Coastal Carolina fires head coach Tim Beck

Coastal Carolina is firing head coach Tim Beck, sources tell On3’s Pete Nakos. Beck went 20-18 in three seasons as head coach of the Chanticleers.

It was a tough end to the season for Coastal and Beck as the team lost 59-10 to James Madison on Saturday. Following a 6-3 start, the Chanticleers lost three in a row to end 2025.

It wasn’t just the blowout to James Madison, Coastal Carolina lost 51-7 to South Carolina the week prior. Beck’s squad was outscored 110-17 in their final two games of the season.

“Yeah, it’s hard,” Tim Beck said after the Gamecocks’ loss. “I mean, you can’t play for them at the end of the day. You could put them in position. Sometimes, guys have got to make the plays. And they made some plays today, and we’ve been in games where we’ve had perfect coverage and a guy jumps up, catches the ball over our guy. Like, what do you tell him? Like, cover him better. Like he’s all over him, and he made a great play. There’s some of that. It’s different things, right? It’s a guy not fit in the gap one time. It’s a formation adjustment we hadn’t seen.

“Guy doesn’t get to the right fit. It’s a good call by them on a call by us. I mean, it’s just a combination of things, and what you’ve got to do is just knock the ball down, just get the ball to the ground, and fight for the next play. The first play of the game, we probably had three guys who could have tackled them. None of them did. And so all you gotta do is try to live the fight, because they got us. They got us. And all you gotta do is like, hang on and try to get him down on the ground and live for the next fight. And we weren’t able to do that today.”

This was Tim Beck’s first head coaching gig in college football and after an 8-5 season in 2023, things were looking up. But after a 6-7 year in 2024, which ended with a Myrtle Beach Bowl loss, things began to go sour.

Tim Beck, a former UCF QB, has coached since 1988 at a variety of places in high school and college as an assistant. The 59-year-old coached throughout the Power Four since 2005 with Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio State, Texas and NC State before taking the head coaching job at Coastal.