Tim Beck ( American football , born 1966 ) Tim Beck ( born March 14 , 1966 ) is the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers football team . Biography . Early life . Beck was born in Youngstown , Ohio on March 14 , 1966 , and graduated from Cardinal Mooney High School . Both current Nebraska head football coach , Bo Pelini , and his brother , Carl Pelini , who formerly served as Nebraska ' s defensive coordinator , also graduated from Cardinal Mooney . Playing career . Beck played for two years at Central Florida , in 1984 and 1985 , and graduated from UCF in 1988 with a bachelor ' s degree in liberal arts . Coaching career . Beck began his football coaching career as an Assistant Coach in 1988 at Miramar High School in Miramar , Florida . After two seasons , Beck advanced to the college coaching ranks by taking a position as outside linebackers coach and punters coach for the Illinois State Redbirds . Just one year later , Beck moved to his first position at a Big 12 Conference school when he was brought into the Kansas State program as a graduate assistant by Wildcats head coach Bill Snyder . It was at Kansas State that Beck first worked with future Nebraska colleague Carl Pelini . Following his two years at Kansas State , Beck assumed his first head coaching position in a return to the high school ranks , when he was appointed to lead the Sabercats of Saguaro High School in Scottsdale , Arizona . The Sabercats had struggled for some time prior to his arrival , its record only 5 - 43 in the previous five years . In his third year at Saguaro , Beck led the Sabercats football team to the 1995 Arizona divisional state championship title , the first ever in the school ' s entire 30 - year history , while assembling a 23 - 4 record during his tenure . With his first head coaching title realized , Beck returned to the college coaching ranks in 1996 by accepting an assistant coaching position at Missouri State , and was promoted to Offensive Coordinator for the 1998 season . In his one year as MSU ' s offensive coordinator , the Bears amassed 4 , 542 all - purpose offensive yards , the fourth - highest mark in the university ' s 91 - year history . The position of head coach called Beck back to the high school ranks in 1999 when he was hired to lead the Turner Lions in Carrollton , Texas , where he led the school to its first consecutive winning seasons and playoff appearances in 25 years , being named the district ' s coach of the year in 2000 . Beck was then appointed to the top position at Mansfield Summit High School in Mansfield , Texas in 2002 , where he was named their district coach of the year in his second season . Improving on the 2003 recognition , Beck led the Jaguars to the 2004 Texas state playoff quarterfinals and a 9 - 4 record , finishing the season with the highest rated defense in the Dallas - Fort Worth metro area . Kansas . In 2005 , Beck returned to the college football coaching arena by accepting the position of wide receivers coach at Kansas . The Jayhawks had been struggling for consistency , posting no conference wins in 2002 , losing the bowl game in their 6 - 7 campaign of 2003 , and missing bowl eligibility in the 4 - 7 season of 2004 . Beck ' s receivers helped the 2005 Kansas team to a 7 - 5 record and their first bowl win since 1995 . In 2006 , four different Jayhawks receivers caught 24 or more passes , though the 6 - 6 team was not extended a bowl invitation . In 2007 Beck was also appointed as the Passing Game Coordinator at Kansas , and the season proved to be a breakthrough year for the Jayhawks . Kansas finished 12 - 1 with the second - best scoring offense nationally , shared the Big 12 Conference North division title with Missouri , and secured a final # 7 ranking in both the AP and Coaches polls with their 24 - 21 win over # 5 Virginia Tech in the 2008 Orange Bowl . Nebraska . When Bo Pelini was named as Nebraska ' s 32nd head football coach for the program ' s turnaround 2008 season , Beck accepted the position of running backs coach for the Cornhuskers . In his first season , the Cornhuskers averaged 169 . 8 running yards per game , with three of the team ' s running backs amassing over 450 yards on the year and placing Nebraska as the leading ground yardage team of the conference ' s north division . 2009 saw the average fall slightly to 147 . 1 running yards per game , but thanks in part to Nebraska ' s effective defensive game this was still enough to outgain all but three of the season ' s opponents on the ground . RB Roy Helu Jr . recorded 1 , 147 yards on the year , while two Cornhusker true freshman backs secured a pair of touchdowns each for the first time since 1993 . Nebraska ' s 2010 ground offense has been revitalized further by the emergence of redshirt freshman QB Taylor Martinez , who is on pace after the season ' s first nine games to be just the third freshman quarterback in NCAA history to record over 1 , 000 yards on the ground , already accumulating over 900 yards on the year . Overall , Nebraska has surged into the nation ' s top rushing ranks with an average of 290 ground yards per game through the season ' s first eight games . The 451 yards accumulated against Kansas State was Nebraska ' s highest total in 109 games . Following Nebraska ' s offensive performance issues in 2010 , Head Coach Bo Pelini replaced offensive coordinator Shawn Watson by promoting Beck to the top offensive spot . Beck also assumed responsibility for coaching the quarterbacks .