Ryan Beard
Also coached below FBS: Missouri State 2023–24
Career arc
As of Fri Oct 23
- Last gameL 32-35 vs. App State Fri Oct 16
- This season2-5
- On track for3-9 regular season
- Nextat Georgia State Sat Oct 31 (no game this week)
- Stature108th of 138 FBS programs
Saturday: at Georgia State
No game this week · Sat Oct 31, 12 am ET 
· Georgia State is 4-2 · First meeting between Beard and Dell McGee as head coaches · Coastal Carolina’s chance to win: 26% (the site’s model)
His week
No headlines named him in the last 7 days
Offense: 89th of 138 per play. Defense: 83rd.
5 games left
- Sat Oct 31at Georgia State (4-2)26%
- Sat Nov 7vs. Old Dominion (2-5)57%
- Sat Nov 14vs. Arkansas State (3-4)42%
- Sat Nov 21at Louisiana (5-2)7%
- Sat Nov 28at James Madison (7-1)6%
Percent: Coastal Carolina’s chance to win, from the site’s model. Records are through today. Networks as announced; the rest are set closer to kickoff.
How the season got here
Where Coastal Carolina stood among 138 FBS programs by stature after each game (1st is the highest; the CFB Zeitgeist ledger).
- Oct 12–18L 32-35 vs. App State0 headlines
- Oct 5–11W 27-21 at Marshall0 headlines
- Sep 28–Oct 4L 24-31 vs. Georgia Southern2 headlines · 75th of 138
- Sep 21–27 · rebuiltL 17-34 vs. Liberty2 headlines · 76th of 138
- Sep 14–20 · rebuiltL 14-22 at Delaware1 headline · 91st of 138
- Sep 7–13 · rebuiltW 45-7 vs. Fordham2 headlines · 84th of 138Coastal Carolina routs Fordham 45-7 for Ryan Beard's first win
CBS Sports
Each week as this page showed it at the time. Weeks marked rebuilt came before this page existed: they were built afterward from only what was known by the end of that week.
Watch the biggest plays from Coastal Carolina’s games, ranked by how much each moved the chance to win.
3 stories about him in the last 30 days
Bye week. Next: Georgia State, Sat Oct 31
from 2 outlets and r/CFB
21 stories about him this season
from 18 outlets and r/CFB
The Cumberland Times-News +2 Sep 3 · 3 outlets
All 3 articles
What they’re talking about
Press conference and quotes9 stories
- Coastal Carolina University Athletics +1Coastal Carolina Launches New Weekly Pep Rally Featuring The Ryan Beard ShowAug 13
All 2 articles
Yahoo SportsMissouri State football coach Ryan Beard speaks at Conference USA Kickoff 2025Aug 16
SportsTalkSC“The moment won’t be too big”: CCU HC Ryan Beard says his team is ready for Saturday’s road trip to West Virginia (AUDIO)Aug 31- WPDECoach Ryan Beard show debuts at Chanti's Pizza, launching weekly Conway pep rallySep 1
WV Sports NowWhat Did Coastal Carolina HC Ryan Beard Say About West Virginia?Sep 2
Game preview4 stories
- The Cumberland Times-News +2Coastal Carolina and new coach Ryan Beard open the season at West Virginia - The Cumberland Times-NewsSep 3
All 3 articles
New York PostSun Belt preview, pick, predictions: Ryan Beard’s Coastal Carolina can upset the oddsAug 20
Sun Belt ConferenceFour Sun Belt Football Programs Start 2-0, Coastal Carolina Earns First Victory of Beard Era in Week 2 PlaySep 13- Coastal at 1-3 in year one under Ryan Beard, the Sun Belt opener vs Georgia Southern is Saturday night (plus a free CFB pick'em)Oct 2
Profile and feature2 stories
- The ChanticleerCoastal Carolina football opens the Ryan Beard era at West VirginiaSep 3
Statesboro HeraldChanticleers enduring rough start to Ryan Beard eraOct 2
Quarterback and depth chart2 stories
- MyHorryNews.comApproaching opener, CCU coach Beard in ‘no rush’ to name starting QBSep 1
- MyHorryNews.comDeuce Bailey starting at QB for Ryan Beard at CCU was meant to beSep 23
Win2 stories
247Sports +1Coastal Carolina routs Fordham 45-7 for Ryan Beard's first winSep 12All 2 articles
- MyHorryNews.comCCU routs Fordham to give coach Ryan Beard his first win in ConwaySep 13
What was said at each stop
Stories we tracked, by school.
Coastal Carolina22 stories2026 to now
Most about: press conference and quotes, game preview, profile and feature.
- The Cumberland Times-News +2Coastal Carolina and new coach Ryan Beard open the season at West Virginia - The Cumberland Times-NewsSep 3
All 3 articles
- Coastal Carolina University Athletics +1Coastal Carolina Launches New Weekly Pep Rally Featuring The Ryan Beard ShowAug 13
All 2 articles
- 247Sports +1Coastal Carolina routs Fordham 45-7 for Ryan Beard's first winSep 12
All 2 articles
HERO SportsCoastal Carolina Head Coach Ryan Beard’s Salary, Career Record, Age & ResumeJul 31- Yahoo SportsMissouri State football coach Ryan Beard speaks at Conference USA Kickoff 2025Aug 16
Missouri State2025not trackedCould another school hire him? What has he said?
Stories are headlines grouped by what they are about, counted through Oct 23.
In his own words
Every quote, back to September 2026
In his own words (10)
The ability to be able to start fast in both halves is vitally important because this will be a huge momentum game. Anytime there are emotions of a rivalry, you have to really stay within yourself and maintain your focus
I don’t know that I’ve been part of a game that you fumble the ball through the end zone twice in one game. We have taken some steps internally to change practice structure and how we evaluate the practice film
It’s tough to wrap your mind around when you just had that last five minutes of that second quarter. We got to find the guys that want to compete for four quarters, that want to play hard, that deserve to wear the teal
There’s not really starters in certain positions at this point
That was not winning football. Penalties, turnovers, lack of execution on special teams . I have to make sure that we’re doing the things necessary in practice to prevent those types of issues
It’s a big win. It’s a big day for our program and just excited for our guys… What an atmosphere that was. I mean, that was absolutely electric. The city of Conway, the surrounding areas , everybody came; they were loud, they were in their white. So , this is a win that should be celebrated by the entirety of Teal Nation
That second half was the football team I know and love
We have to get rid of the penalties. We have to be better on third downs on both sides of the ball, and you can’t turn the football over
All the quarterbacks have done a nice job
We’re going to be highly effective under center, in the gun, doing all those things
Hires into jobs like this
Hired into 15–15, Regional Program III. Rough match, not calibrated yet — ranked on what the job inherited alone. Coaches hired into this same job aren’t used as comps.
- Tim Beck20238–5+1.1
- Joe Moglia20185–7-1.2
Hot seat
See every job →This season
Our hot-seat model, on his record so far, the win chances for every game he has left, and his contract (a bigger buyout, relative to pay, makes a change costlier). Ranked against the 137 FBS head coaches with 3+ games this season.
His first rated season here.
His hot seat, week by week
The chance he’s out by the end of that season, as it stood after every week of his tenure here, by today’s model.
What drives his number
The biggest factors, each against the typical FBS job today.
- ▼ CoolerYear 1 · tenure, which this model overrates
(why?)
Tenure is one of this model’s strongest inputs, but its weight was set when retirements like Nick Saban’s and Bob Stoops’ still counted as being pushed out, so it overstates how much tenure matters.
- ▲ Hotter2-5, outscoring opponents by 2
- ▼ CoolerNo previous seasons here to judge him on
What happened to coaches like him, 2004–2025
A different comparison: past coaches, not today’s, grouped by one fact at a time. Neither line knows the games he has left or his contract, so they can sit above or below his chance.
- Were 2-5 after 7 games
- 19% pushed out over results · of 339 coaches
- Were in year 1, after 7 games
- 1% pushed out over results · of 523 coaches
How good is this number? Checked on every FBS coach from 2010 to 2025, with its percentages calibrated each season on earlier years only: they track what happened — coaches it put near 25% were out about a quarter of the time — and a version pricing the games left with the previous season’s ratings ranked jobs as well as the ranking this page used before. Each week it learns from coaches who were still on the job at that point, so a firing during the season counts. In the Boiling zone it has run a few points high. Every job, and the method.
Coaching career
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
Followed Tim Beck (2023–2025).
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits younger transfers than most — more of a development bet.
AI Narratives — “Coastal Carolina — stat check”.
Succeeded by Casey Woods (2026–now).
Outperforms his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
A typical amount of portal roster-building.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits younger transfers than most — more of a development bet.
AI Narratives — “Missouri State — stat check”.
Big games
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
0-1 against his rivals at Coastal Carolina.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
0-1 against his rivals.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
Style position and drift
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
How good is he so far?
Four numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
None of his Coastal Carolina classes is ranked and fully his yet. Across his other stops, his own classes averaged #133 nationally.
Missouri StateCoastal CarolinaAcross every program: 1 ranked class of his own, averaging #133 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycleTransition — he was hired mid-cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his; inherited and mid-transition classes still show here, faded, but stay out of the average.
Followed him here
Missouri State→Coastal Carolina2026- Ahmad Poole DL
- DJ Wesolak DL
- Mitchell Toney DL
- Tristian Gardner WR
Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2026 roster arrived on his watch — 69 of 106 players. The other 37 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 22% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2026–2026Counting players who have since left: 22% of the 69 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 5 of 17 signees (29%) across his 2026–2026 tenure, drawn from 8 states in all. Next: TX (4).
53% of his signees come from GA and its 5 border states (SC 2, AL 1, FL 1).
- median hometown distance
- 408 mi
- within 100 mi
- 8%
- within 500 mi
- 63%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 8%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.