SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Beau Baldwin has resigned as Cal Poly’s head football coach after three seasons at the helm.
Mustang director of athletics Don Oberhelman confirmed the resignation Friday afternoon.
Baldwin, offensive coordinator at Cal from 2017-19, is expected to return to the Pac-12, again as an offensive coordinator, this time with the Arizona State Sun Devils under new head coach Kenny Dillingham, an Arizona State graduate and the offensive coordinator at Oregon this fall.
Three months after Baldwin’s tenure at Cal Poly began, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a shutdown of all athletic activities at colleges across the nation. Cal Poly’s 2020 schedule was canceled and a six-game schedule was drawn up by the Big Sky Conference for the spring of 2021. Due to numerous injuries, the second half of that slate was cancelled “in the interest of the health and wellness of our student-athletes,” Baldwin said.
Before becoming a head coach (Central Washington in 2007, Eastern Washington from 2008-16), Baldwin spent 13 seasons as an assistant beginning with nine years as the quarterbacks coach at Central Washington (1994-2002) before four campaigns as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Eastern Washington (2003-06). He is a 1996 graduate of Central Washington.
A search for Baldwin’s successor will begin immediately.
