A native of Parma, Idaho, Beard is one of the top LDS assistants in the country. He’s been with Houston since 2014 in various roles and has been an assistant coach the last couple seasons. Beard doesn’t have quite the breath of experience as others on this list, but he’s had the chance to learn under Kelvin Sampson building one of the nation’s top programs and has a year in the Big 12 Conference under his built.