Before Toledo, Beard had been pretty unlucky jumping into two staffs where the coach got fired and he (like most assistants) wasn't retained by the new hire. Hard to build up a reputation when you have a lame duck HC and you don't even get a full recruiting cycle. His WR rooms at Toledo seem fairly productive, and he was ranked as the No.5 recruiter in the MAC in 2022, whatever that's worth.
Beard isn't a terrible option. That said, I'd still rather have Galloway or Hankerson (or a half dozen other WR coaches). I think we can and should do better than Beard, but that doesn't mean he's some bottom-of-the-barrel option like some people are painting him.