SAN MARCOS, Texas – The Texas State football coaching staff is nearing completion as Jonathan Patke was named the defensive coordinator, Craig Stutzmann as the wide receivers/passing game coordinator, and Bret Huth as Assistant Athletic Director, Strength & Conditioning for Football as new head coach G.J. Kinne announced the additions on Thursday.
 
"We are excited to add these three high-caliber coaches to our program and to help lead our student-athletes," said Kinne. "Coach Patke is a brilliant defensive mind that has Power 5 coordinator experience. His approach with the defense on the field is to be aggressive and his kids love him. Coach Stutzmann sets records everywhere he goes, also has Power 5 coordinator experience, and is a great asset to our program and offense. And for Coach Huth, he is the best in the business. He is a believer in sports science, and our kids will be trained at an elite level."
 
Patke, a veteran coach with stops at Louisiana Tech, Mississippi State and Miami (FL), will oversee the Texas State defensive unit after a successful one-year stint as the defensive coordinator at Incarnate Word in 2022. Working with Kinne at UIW, Patke's defense was tops in the Southland Conference in total defense, led the nation in tackles for loss, and was third in the country in team sacks. The Cardinals won the conference championship and reached the FCS Playoff semifinals for the first time in school history.
 
Patke also saw linebacker Kelechi Anyalebechi earn All-America honors as well as four others garner All-Southland accolades. Anyalebechi was tabbed as a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award, which is presented to the national defensive player of the year at the FCS level.
 
Prior to UIW, Patke spent six seasons at Miami, rising from quality control analyst for the defense in 2016 to linebackers coach and special teams coordinator in his final season in 2021. Miami was one of the top defenses in Patke's time in Coral Gables, including the No. 4 defense in the country in 2018, No. 13 in 2019, and No. 20 in 2016.
 
Also, as a special teams coordinator with the Hurricanes, he helped Jose Borregales become the first Hurricane ever to win the Lou Groza Award in 2020 while also seeing Lou Hedley becoming one of three finalists for the Ray Guy Award that same season.
 
Patke, a Houston native, graduated from Stephen F. Austin in 2008 and was a three-year starting linebacker for the Lumberjacks.
 
Stutzmann will oversee the wide receivers and passing game for the Bobcats after serving as the offensive coordinator at Utah Tech in 2022 and two seasons as the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Washington State. This past year, Stutzmann led a Trailblazer offense that was sixth in the nation in passing offense and 25th in total offense. He also helped coach wide receiver Joey Hobert to All-America honors and finish ninth overall in the voting for the 2022 Walter Payton Award.
 
A product of Hawai'i, Stutzmann helped his alma mater reach three bowl games over four seasons from 2016 to 2019 as the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and produce one of the nation's top passing attacks. Hawai'i had the ninth-ranked passing offense in 2018 and fifth-best passing attack in 2019.
 
In 2019, Stutzmann was one of six finalists for the FootballScoop National Quarterback Coach of the Year after tutoring Cole McDonald, who finished third in the country in passing yards and eighth in touchdown passes.
 
Stutzmann also has coaching stops at Emory & Henry College (2014-15), Weber State (2012-13) and Rhodes College (2011). He began his career as a graduate assistant at Hawai'i in 2008 and then moved on to be the wide receivers coach at Portland State in 2009 and a graduate assistant at Memphis in 2010. He was a high school coach to start out, including four years at Saint Louis High School from 2004-07 and where he coached 2014 Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota.
 
A two-time All-WAC honorable mention, Stutzmann was a three-year starting wide receiver at Hawai'i between 1998 and 2001 and finished fifth on the school's all-time receiving list with 2,025 yards.
 
Huth joins Texas State after five seasons at UIW, where he helped design and implement a strength and conditioning program that helped the Cardinals go from 1-10 in 2017, the season before he arrived, to three conference championships and a 2022 campaign that ended in the FCS Playoff semifinals.
 
Huth previously worked at Rice (2017), Cal (2014-16), Memphis (2013) and ULM (2010-13). He was also the head strength and conditioning coach at Euclid High School in Ohio in 2010 and strength and conditioning intern at Kent State in 2009.
 
Huth played football at John Carroll University from 2005 to 2009.
 
Stutzmann is the fourth assistant coach to be named on the offensive side since Kinne took over the program on Dec. 2. He joins Mack Leftwich (offensive coordinator), Jordan Shoemaker (offensive line/run game coordinator), and Kam Martin (running backs).
 
Patke rounds out the defensive staff as previously named coaches include Mike O'Guin (defensive line), Matthew Gregg (cornerbacks), and Dexter McCoil, Sr. (safeties).
 
The remaining two assistant coaches will be announced in the coming days.