There are wholesale changes to the Coastal Carolina coaching staff as the Chanticleers bring in Tim Beck as their new head coach for the 2023 college football season. Who makes up the rest of the coaching staff in Conway?
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers Coaching Staff
Head Coach, Tim Beck
Arriving in Conway as the fourth leader of the Coastal Carolina football program, Tim Beck is a first-year college football head coach who has vast experience as a positional mentor. The Ohio native has been coaching for 35 years across the high school, FCS, and FBS levels of football and has seen some level of success at every stop he’s made along the way.
Sam Ehlinger, Devin Leary, Cardale Jones, and JT Barrett are just some of the quarterbacks that have thrived under Beck’s tutelage. At Nebraska, he coached five 1,000-yard rushers including Rex Burkhead, Ameer Abdullah, and Roy Helu Jr. Meanwhile, he learned his own craft under Bill Snyder as a graduate assistant at Kansas State.
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Beck began his coaching career at Miramar HS in Florida and twice returned to the high school ranks, including a six-year stint as a Texas high school football head coach across two schools. However, he made his name as a college football offensive coordinator, filling that role at NC State before making Conway the latest entry into a college résumé you can find below.
- Illinois State (OLB and punters coach, 1990)
- Kansas State (graduate assistant, 1991-1992)
- Missouri State (WR coach, 1996; WR coach and pass game coordinator, 1997; OC and QB coach, 1998)
- Kansas (WR coach, 2005-2006; WR coach and pass game coordinator, 2007)
- Nebraska (RB coach, 2008-2010; OC and QB coach, 2011-2014)
- Ohio State (co-OC and QB coach, 2015-2016)
- Texas (OC and QB coach, 2017-2019)
- NC State (OC and QB coach, 2020-2022)
- Coastal Carolina (HC, 2023)
Offensive Coordinator, Travis Trickett
Travis Trickett joins the Coastal Carolina coaching staff for the 2023 college football season. He will serve as the Chanticleers’ offensive coordinator while also coaching a quarterback room that brings back standout starter Grayson McCall. Trickett arrives in Conway after spending the 2022 season in the same role for USF, helping maximize the Bulls’ offensive production.
Starting his coaching career at West Virginia as a student assistant, Trickett boasts an impressive early college coaching résumé that features a who’s who of coaching greatness. It’s difficult to imagine a greater learning experience than drinking from the fountain of coaching knowledge that is Nick Saban and Bobby Bowden.
Coaching is truly the Trickett family business. His father and brother are both current FBS coaches, while another brother is an NFL scout. Both father and son spent time working under Jimbo Fisher at FSU, with that stop detailed as part of the new Chanticleers’ offensive coordinator’s full college coaching résumé below.
- West Virginia (student assistant, 2003-2006)
- Alabama (graduate assistant, 2007)
- FSU (graduate assistant, 2008-2010)
- Samford (Slot WR and TE coach, 2011; OC and QB coach, 2012-2015)
- Florida Atlantic (OC and QB coach, 2016)
- Georgia State (OC and QB coach, 2017-2018)
- West Virginia (inside WR and TE coach, 2019-2021)
- USF (OC and QB coach, 2022)
- Coastal Carolina (OC and QB coach, 2023)
Defensive Coordinator, Craig Naivar
Beginning his coaching career in 1994, Craig Naivar brings experience and success to the Coastal Carolina coaching staff after stints at some of the biggest programs in college football. He’ll serve as the Chanticleers’ defensive coordinator from the 2023 season while also coaching the safeties for the program.
While he’s held various coordinator roles across his career, he’s predominantly coached the safety position with some notable achievements. While at USC, Naivar coached Talanoa Hufanga to Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year honors. Meanwhile, he helped Caden Sterns to Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year honors while working alongside new Coastal HC Beck at Texas.
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In his first season in Austin as special teams coordinator, Naivar coached punter Michael Dickson to multiple awards – headlined by the 2017 Ray Guy Award. There have been elements of success at every stop throughout his nearly 30-year college coaching career, with every stint of his résumé detailed below.
- Hardin-Simmons (special teams coordinator, 1995-1995)
- New Mexico (graduate assistant, 1996-1997)
- TCU (graduate assistant, 1998)
- Southern Illinois (special teams coordinator and DL coach, 1998-1999)
- Sam Houston State (special teams coordinator an DL coach, 2000-2001; DC and safeties coach, 2002-2003)
- Texas State (DC and safeties coach, 2004-2006)
- Rice (special teams coordinator and DL coach, 2007-2009)
- Texas State (DC and safeties coach, 2011-2013)
- Kentucky (special teams coordinator and safeties coach, 2014)
- Houston (co-DC and safeties coach, 2015-2016)
- Texas (special teams coordinator and safeties coach, 2017-2018; co-DC and safeties, 2019)
- USC (safeties coach, 2020-2021)
- SMU (special teams coordinator and safeties coach, 2022)
- Coastal Carolina (DC and safeties coach)
Special Teams Coordinator, Josh Miller
Since joining the Coastal Carolina coaching staff in 2020, Josh Miller has established the Chanticleers as one of the best special teams units in the country. He arrived in Conway having served as the Furman DL coach for three years, while previously working at Charleston Southern, Delta State, and Brevard College after beginning his coaching career at Appalachian State.
Linebacker Coach, Dan Carrel
In addition to his role as linebacker coach for the Chanticleers, Dan Carrel will also serve as the co-defensive coordinator after joining the Coastal Carolina coaching staff ahead of the 2023 college football campaign. He began his coaching career at West Liberty in 2012, adding stops at Ohio State, Kentucky, Houston, New Mexico, and UMass, plus a stint as DC at USF in 2022.
Defensive Line Coach, Jimmy Brumbaugh
A 44-game starter on the Auburn Tigers defensive front, Jimmy Brumbaugh joins the Coastal Carolina coaching staff after spending 2022 as the defensive line coach at his alma mater. In addition to fulfilling that role for the Chanticleers, Brumbaugh will also act as the defensive run game coordinator in his debut season in Conway.
Running Back Coach, Xavier Dye
Xavier Dye joins the Coastal Carolina staff as the RB coach for the 2023 college football season. Although it’s his first season coaching backs, Dye has extensive offensive coaching experience from stints at Greenville High School, Western Carolina, Clemson, West Virginia, and USF.
Fun fact: Dye is the only Clemson player to catch a TD pass from three different players at three different positions in one season.
Cornerback Coach, Curtis Fuller
A long-time NFL assistant coach, Curtis Fuller has worked with some of the best DBs to play the game in recent years, including Patrick Peterson, James Bradberry, Jason McCourty, and Charles Woodson. He got his first college coaching gig last season with Texas A&M Commerce and will join the Coastal Carolina coaching staff as cornerback coach for the 2023 college football season.
Wide Receiver Coach, Perry Parks
The Chanticleers welcome back one of their own for the 2023 college football season after former walk-on turned captain Perry Parks was added to the Coastal Carolina coaching staff. Parks spent most of his coaching career at the high school level before landing the role of WR coach with the Charlotte 49ers in 2021, where he maximized the potential of Grant DuBose.
Tight End Coach, Kriss Proctor
Formerly working on offensive quality control at NC State, Kriss Proctor followed new head coach Beck onto the Coastal Carolina coaching staff for the 2023 season. Proctor had been in Raleigh for seven years, after stints at Boise State and Indiana State, where he worked with the WRs — including now-Green Bay Packer Robert Tonyan Jr. — and served as the recruiting coordinator.
Offensive Line Coach, Derek Warehime
A 34-game starter at center for Tulsa, Derek Warehime began his coaching career as a student assistant at his alma mater. Stops at Rice, Arkansas-Monticello, Sam Houston State, Houston, Texas, and New Mexico led him to Conway, where he’ll serve as the offensive line coach on the Coastal Carolina coaching staff. Warehime worked with HC Beck at Texas.
