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Jason Michael Beck (born 1980) is an American football coach and former player who is current serving as the offensive coordinator (OC) for New Mexico. Prior to New Mexico, he was the quarterbacks coach at the University of Virginia and Brigham Young University (BYU), his alma mater, each under head coach Bronco Mendenhall, and as the quarterbacks coach at Syracuse under head coach Dino Babers.
Career
= Early life and playing career
=Beck was born in Oxnard, California to John and Mary Beck. He attended Hueneme High School. Beck served a 2-year mission in Denver for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prior to his collegiate career, from 1999-2001.
Beck spent his freshman season at Ventura College and then moved to the College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California, where he led the Canyon Cougars to an 11-1 season and Western State Conference title as a sophomore. He was a unanimous first-team All-Conference pick, throwing for 2,052 yards while completing 77.5% of his passes. He also added 430 rushing yards. He was also named to the Junior college Academic All-American list.
After transferring to BYU, Beck served as the backup to All-American quarterback John Beck (no relation) from 2004-2006. In his lone start in a 38-0 victory over Utah State his senior season, Beck totaled 553 passing yards and 28 rushing yards, including 305 yards on 20-of-28 passing.
Beck earned bachelor's and master's degrees in communications from BYU in 2006 and 2011.
= Coaching career
=Beck began as offensive intern at BYU in 2007 and then worked in the same position with LSU Tigers. He worked under former BYU head coach, Gary Crowton who was the offensive coordinator on Les Miles's 2008 team.
Weber State
In 2009, he was hired by head coach Ron McBride as quarterbacks coach at Weber State. At Weber State, he coached quarterback Cameron Higgins, who completed his four-year standout career as one of the top players in Weber State history and set many school records.
SFU
In 2012, Beck was named the offensive coordinator at Simon Fraser in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. At SFU, he turned around offense from being ranked last in Great Northwest Athletic Conference (in 2011) to first place in total offense, passing offense and scoring offense in 2012.
BYU
In 2013, he returned to his alma mater BYU where he served as quarterbacks coach until his resignation December 9, 2015. He was hired by offensive coordinator Robert Anae.
UVA
In 2015, Beck accepted the quarterbacks coach position at the University of Virginia, with Robert Anae as the offensive coordinator, going from BYU with Bronco Mendenhall who was appointed the university's new head football coach. Beck left this position after Mendenhall announced his retirement from the head coaching job.
Syracuse
Beck was hired as Syracuse's quarterbacks coach on December 26, 2021. After Anae left for the same position at NC State in December 2022, Beck was promoted to offensive coordinator by head coach Dino Babers. In his one season as the offensive coordinator Syracuse went 6-7 overall and 2-6 in conference.
New Mexico
In December 2023 Beck was named the offensive coordinator at New Mexico, joining Bronco Mendenhall, who was also named the new head coach coming out of a short two season retirement. This is the third time Beck has worked with Mendenhall. His previous stops were at BYU and University of Virginia.
Beck has coached three quarterbacks who have gone on to have NFL careers: Taysom Hill, Kurt Benkert, and Bryce Perkins.
Personal life
Beck married Jaime Rendich, an All-American BYU soccer standout, in December 2005. The couple has a daughter and twin sons.
References
External links
Syracuse profile
Virginia profile
BYU profile
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