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Jun. 15—It was, at the very least, a start.
In 2007, BYU football hired Jason Beck and Nick Howell as offensive and defensive interns, respectively. Beck had just finished his final season as a backup quarterback with the Cougars and abandoned plans of being a lawyer to give coaching a go; Howell had left his post as the head coach at Ben Lomond (Utah) High School for his first opportunity at the collegiate level.
And in a couple offices tucked down a hallway, away from those of position coaches and coordinators at BYU’s facility, that’s where their careers began — even if they sometimes felt a little more detached than not.
“If you (were) in your office and working, it just seemed like you (were) gonna have to walk down the hallway and just do a round,” Beck remembered, “just to make sure you don’t get left out or forgotten if some meeting came.”
“Like no one even knew we were there,” Howell laughed.
Seventeen years later, Beck and Howell don’t share office space tucked away somewhere on the second floor of the Tow Diehm Facility. Nor are there any worries that New Mexico’s offensive and defensive coordinators won’t be looped into the next meeting as they prepare for their first season with the Lobos.
But after a little under six months on the job, there’s been enough time for the two to reflect on the start of their tenures at UNM and what they’ve seen from their respective units.
“Our focus right now is, ‘okay, here’s what we’ve been doing good — now how do we make that better?'” Beck said.
A longtime quarterbacks coach under head coach Mendenhall and former Syracuse offensive coordinator, Beck said spring practice for the offense wasn’t as much about scheme as it was about buy-in, specifically from “the right guys.” Quarterback Devon Dampier remains at the top of that group, entering and emerging from the spring…
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Author : Albuquerque Journal, N.M.
Publish date : 2024-06-16 03:01:00
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