Referred by many as one of the most creative minds in college football, Bob Stitt is in his first season as the offensive coordinator at Texas State.
Stitt comes to Texas State after spending the 2018 season as an offensive analyst for head coach Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State, where he took notes and provided ideas to Gundy or the offensive coordinator as a consultant.
Stitt went to Oklahoma State after serving three seasons as the head coach at Montana and 14 years as the head coach at Colorado School of the Mines, a Division II school where he gained national acclaim for teaching West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen his version of the “fly sweep” play.
Stitt went 21-14 overall and 14-11 in Big Sky Conference play during his three seasons at Montana. The Grizzlies went 8-5 in his first season and finished the year tied for second place in the league with a 6-2 mark. His greatest highlight at Montana came in his first game there when the Grizzlies upset defending national champion North Dakota State. Montana also made a late-season run that included wins over Eastern Washington and Montana State. In his second season, the Grizzlies went 6-5 after a win at No. 3-ranked Northern Iowa.
He coached the 2016 STATS FCS Defensive Player of the Year Tyrone Holmes, and Montana’s all-time leading receiver Jamaal Jones, who finished his career with 3,021 receiving yards.
In 2017, Brady Gustafson set a new school single-game passing record by completing 47 passes against Cal Poly in 2016. Freshman receiver Jerry Louie-McGee was a top-seven vote getter for the Jerry Rice Award, given to the nation’s Top Freshman, after he set a school record for receptions in a game with 21 at Cal Poly. In two seasons, Stitt produced 28 All-Big Sky Conference players as well.
Stitt went to Montana after posting a 108-62 record and an 83-44 mark in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in 15 seasons at the Colorado School of Mines.
His teams had 13 winning seasons in his 15-year tenure and registered eight winning seasons in a row. The Orediggers won conference titles in 2004, 2010, and 2014.
His 2014 team finished 10-2 overall and 8-1 in the RMAC and advanced to the Division II national playoffs. The Orediggers posted an 8-3 record in 2013.
He was named the Rocky Mountain Conference’s Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2010, and was selected the 2004 NCAA Division II Football.com Southwest Region Coach of the Year and the AFCA Region V Coach of the Year.
During his tenure at Mines, Stitt produced 129 All-RMAC performers, 31 All-Region selections, and 16 All-Americans. His .635 winning percentage during 15 seasons at the helm is the highest in school history for a coach with at least 20 games under his belt.
A 1987 graduate of Doane College in Nebraska, Stitt received various accolades as a running back and a return specialist while playing for the Tigers in the mid-1980s. He was the All-State College Offensive Player of the Year in 1985. Stitt also played left field for the Doane baseball squad and was a sprinter on the track & field team.
Stitt returned to coach at his alma mater after receiving his master’s degree in physical education at Northern Colorado in 1989.
He served as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach from 1990-93 at Doane and he produced three NAIA Division II All-Americans and 19 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference offensive players during his tenure there.
Stitt coached at Austin College (Texas) from 1994-99, serving as the assistant head coach and the offensive and special teams coordinator.
He also was the offensive coordinator at Harvard, where he helped the Crimson set school records for total offense in a game (640 yards), passing yards in a game (405), first downs in a game (34) and points scored in an Ivy League game (63). His 1999 offense led the Ivy League in rushing, was third in scoring and fourth in total offense.
A native of Tecumseh, Nebraska, Stitt lettered in football, basketball, track & field and baseball at Tecumseh High School.
He and his wife, the former Joan Scherrer, have two sons, Joe and Sam.
