Jason Beck's secret to Michigan football offense success
Michigan football's new offensive coordinator Jason Beck shares his philosophy for building a top-ranked offense around player strengths.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Jason Beck is entering his fourth season as an offensive coordinator, but he's doing so at his fourth school. Yet, in the previous two years, his offenses had the exact same result: fourth overall in the country with the No.
2 rushing attack, nationally. Even going from New Mexico to Utah, the 45-year-old coach has been remarkably consistent. So, why is that?
Why was he able to change schools, with some players following him from the Lobos to the Utes, but certainly not all, and maintain the same level of excellence? WolverinesWire asked him just that on Tuesday, and he shared his secret to success. "A lot of things go into that," Beck said.
"A couple of the main highlight bullet points: it was really good quarterback play -- drives a lot of that; staff that the majority of the guys know the system, so we're able to kind of come in and really get rolling, installing it and teaching it fast, which was able to do here as well. And then our whole thing is just to try to build it around the player's strengths. So we really want to find the strengths of the offense and build it around them to let them play at their best when game day hits.