SAN MARCOS, Texas – Texas State football has named Mack Leftwich as the offensive coordinator and Jordan Shoemaker as the offensive line coach/run game coordinator as Texas State's newly named head football coach G.J. Kinne announced the first two members of his coaching staff on Tuesday.
 
Leftwich and Shoemaker join Kinne from Incarnate Word as the trio helped establish the nation's No. 1 offense in both FBS and FCS.
 
"I'm excited to have Coach Leftwich and Coach Shoemaker join me in San Marcos as we start this new chapter of Texas State football," said Kinne. "Having worked with Mack and Jordan this year, I was able to see their minds at work and appreciate the value they bring to a program. We have found two men who are great leaders, incredible thinkers at what they do, and Texans. I look forward to them getting started and leading this offense as we continue to build out this staff on both sides of the ball."
 
Leftwich, who has been at UIW since 2018, helped orchestrate the nation's highest scoring offense this season with UIW. The Cardinals are the only NCAA Division I team averaging more than 50 points a game this year while they also average 584.5 yards of total offense (2nd in both FBS and FCS). Leftwich's offense features Walter Payton Award finalist and FCS record-breaking quarterback Lindsey Scott, Jr. as well as seven other all-conference performers.
 
Leftwich joined UIW as a graduate assistant in 2018 and became the quarterbacks coach starting in 2019. After three seasons overseeing the quarterbacks, he became the offensive coordinator for the first time in 2022. In his time as the quarterbacks coach and graduate assistant, he helped tutor Cameron Ward, the 2021 Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Year and an FCS Freshman (Spring 2021) and Sophomore All-American (Fall 2021), and Jon Copeland, a 2018 HERO Sports FCS Freshman All-American.
 
The son of a college football coach, Leftwich was raised in Texas before playing his senior year of high school in Pennsylvania when his dad was a coach at Pitt. He started at quarterback as a true freshman and redshirt sophomore at UTEP.
 
While his playing career was cut short due to injury, Leftwich graduated from UTEP and was a student assistant coach with the Miners in 2016. In 2017, he served as the offensive coordinator at Lehman High School in nearby Kyle, Texas.
 
Shoemaker was UIW's offensive line coach for the last five years, which are the best five years in the Cardinals' short football history. He coached seven different Cardinals who combined to earn 12 All-Southland honors and established a front that blocked for two different All-American running backs in Ra'Quanne Dickens (2018) and Kevin Brown (Spring 2021).
 
Prior to UIW, Shoemaker coached at Magnolia West High School (TX) in 2017 after spending five years on the Baylor coaching staff. He was an offensive lineman at Houston from 2006-10 before joining Baylor as a graduate assistant for his first three years in Waco.
 
A native of Midlothian, Texas and product of Midlothian High School, Shoemaker played in 44 games at Houston and was part of an offensive unit that led the nation in total offense in 2008 and 2009.
 
Leftwich and Shoemaker helped lead UIW to three FCS Playoff appearances in their tenures (2018, 2021, 2022).
 
Leftwich and Shoemaker make up two of the 10 full-time assistant coach positions that Kinne will fill to complete his coaching staff. Kinne was announced the 21st head coach in Texas State football history on Dec. 2.