Beau Baldwin

Beau Daniel Baldwin (born May 21, 1972) is an American football coach and former player.

He is the former offensive coordinator at Arizona State.

Under Baldwin's offensive play calling, Arizona State suffered its first scoreless home performance since 1988 in a humiliating 29–0 loss to Fresno State.

Prior to Arizona State's game against USC, it was reported that Dillingham would take over offensive play calling duties from Baldwin.

On November 29, 2023, it was announced that Baldwin would not remain on staff at Arizona State.

Baldwin helped lead Curtis to the 1989 Washington State AAA title in football.

Baldwin graduated from Curtis Senior High School in University Place, Washington in 1990.

He played at quarterback and earned three letters in football and three in baseball in his high school career.

Baldwin played college football at Central Washington University from 1990 to 1993.

As a player, Baldwin was a two-time team captain and completed 121-of-197 passes for 1,655 yards and eight touchdowns.

His career completion percentage of .614 is a school record.

In a 38–35 win versus Simon Fraser in 1991, he set single-game school records for attempts (52), completions (32), yards (467), total plays (66) and total yards (550).

He had a 6-yard touchdown pass with four seconds left to give the Wildcats the win.

In his last two seasons, Baldwin served as the backup to future NFL star Jon Kitna.

After college, Baldwin spent a short time in the spring/summer of 1994 playing football professionally in Sweden for the Limhamn Griffins in the Superserien.

The league allowed only two American players per team to be on the field at the same time.

Baldwin also served as an assistant coach, giving Baldwin a springboard into his coaching career back in the United States after the season.

Baldwin returned to Central Washington in 1994 as the quarterbacks coach for the Wildcats.

He coached Jon Kitna, for whom he served as a backup just a year earlier.

In 1995, Kitna, under the tutelage of Baldwin, helped lead Central Washington to a 10–3–1 record and the NAIA Division II National Championship.

Kitna received All-American honors and later played 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL).

Baldwin served as the quarterbacks coach at Central until 2002.

In this time, Baldwin coached another All-American quarterback in Zak Hill, who led Central in 2002 to an 11–1 record and a top-five ranking at the NCAA Division II level.

Hill later served under Baldwin as his quarterbacks coach when Baldwin took over as head coach at Eastern Washington.

In 2003, Baldwin went to Eastern Washington and spent four seasons with the Eagles as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

In this time, Eastern Washington made two FCS Playoff appearances in 2004 and 2005.

Baldwin also coached quarterback Erik Meyer, who won the Walter Payton Award in 2005, the first player from Eastern Washington to win the award.

Baldwin previously served as the head football coach at Central Washington University in 2007 and at Eastern Washington University from 2008 to 2016.

In 2007, Baldwin returned to Central Washington as the head coach of the Wildcats.

In his only season at Central as head coach, Baldwin led Central to a 10–3 record and an appearance in the 2007 NCAA Division II playoffs, where they lost in the quarterfinals to two-time defending Division II National Champion Grand Valley State.

He led the 2010 Eastern Washington Eagles football team to an NCAA Division I Football Championship.

During those same seasons, the Bears finished with the 10th, 12th, and 12th ranked offenses respectively out of 12 teams in the Pac-12 Conference in Total Points Per Game under Baldwin's offensive leadership.

On December 2, 2022, Cal Poly announced the resignation of Baldwin citing that he was accepting the offensive coordinator position at Arizona State under new head coach Kenny Dillingham.

Arizona State started the season 1–2 with the offense leaving a lot to be desired.

Baldwin was the offensive coordinator at University of California, Berkeley from 2017 to 2019.

On January 16, 2017, Baldwin was hired as the offensive coordinator for California of the Pac-12 Conference under new head coach Justin Wilcox.

In Baldwin's second season at Cal, the Bears’ offensive efficiency ranked as the second worst among all Power Five teams.

As the offensive coordinator for California, the Bears finished the 2017, 2018, and 2019 football seasons with the 11th, 12th, and 12th ranked offenses respectively out of 12 teams in the Pac-12 Conference in Yards Per Game.

Previously, He was the head football coach at California Polytechnic State University, a position he held from December 2019 to 2022.

Under Baldwin, the Cal offense led by their third-string quarterback was shutout for the first time in 20 years in its Pac-12 conference game against Utah on October 26, 2019.