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Starting to think GJ is just not good at personnel decisions...

Chad Morris back in college coaching, per report

ZACH BARNETT       2 HOURS AGO

In 2010, Tulsa threw for 3,650 yards and 31 touchdowns behind the combination of Chad Morris and GJ Kinne; the former was the offensive coordinator and Kinne the Golden Hurricane's quarterback. 

In 2024, Kinne and Morris are back together. Texas State's head coach has hired Morris as the Bobcats' wide receivers coach, according to a report Friday from Dave Campbell's Texas Football.

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The job will be Morris's first on-the-field coaching position since 2020, his lone season as Auburn's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He spent 2021 as the head coach at Allen (Texas) High School, 2022 as an analyst at South Florida and 2023 in the same role at Clemson.

Texas State experienced its best season in decades under Kinne, its first-year head coach. The Bobcats won eight games, including the First Responder Bowl, the program's first postseason win at the FBS level.

Morris replaces Craig Stutzmann, who took the offensive coordinator role on Ken Niumatalolo's new staff at San Jose State. 

 

 

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Well seeing as Chad Morris was in the rumor mill for head coach before we hired GJ I guess I'm fine bringing him in as a position coach/coordinator instead of HC... 

Gotta be a touch awkward for Morris to be working for his old grad assistant at SMU, but between GJ, Mack Leftwich, Barrick Nealy,  David Bailiff and Chad Morris that's some kind of brain trust in coaching positions especially on the offense. 

 

Edit: may have gotten my Morris's mixed up and that was Eric Morris that was in the rumor mill for HC before GJ got hired...tomato tomato 

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Sources: Texas State to promote from within for defensive coordinator hire

Former NFL, CFL, XFL and AFL player Dexter McCoil has continued his swift rise up the coaching ranks.

ZACH BARNETT       3 HOURS AGO

Texas State is set to promote Dexter McCoil, Sr., to defensive coordinator, sources told FootballScoop on Thursday. 247Sports first reported the news.

McCoil joined the Bobcats in December of 2022 as an original member of GJ Kinne's staff. He coached safeties on Kinne's Incarnate Word staff in 2022, and prior to that coached defensive backs in the Louisiana high school ranks.

McCoil and Kinne were teammates at Tulsa in the early 2010s. 

Following his time as a Golden Hurricane, McCoil played professionally for nine years -- bouncing between the Arena League, the CFL, the NFL, and the XFL. He won CFL Rookie of the Year honors in 2014, won a Grey Cup with the Edmonton Eskimos in 2015, and spent parts of three seasons with the Chargers and 49ers.

McCoil replaces Jonathan Patke, who took the defensive coordinator job on Manny Diaz's new Duke staff in December.

Texas State is coming off its best season at the FBS level, going 8-5 with a win over Rice in the First Responder Bowl. 

 

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