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Adrian Mayes is in his third season at Texas State and is coaching Bobcat tight ends for the second straight year after coaching the offensive line in 2016.  Mayes also serves as the recruiting coordinator for the Bobcats.
 
Last season, Mayes coached All-Sun Belt Conference Second-Team tight end Gabe Schrade, who caught 20 passes for 287 yards and two touchdowns and was a punishing blocker on running plays. Schrade also served as a team captain for the second straight season.
 
Mayes joined Texas State’s staff after serving as the director of football recruiting at Houston during the 2015 season. The previous year, he was an offensive graduate assistant at Ohio State in 2014 when the Buckeyes won the first College Football Playoff Championship Trophy with victories over Alabama and Oregon.
 
Mayes went to Ohio State after serving three seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Rice, where he coached both the offensive and defensive lines for the Owls during his tenure. He also spent two seasons as a defensive graduate assistant coach in 2012 and 2013 after beginning his coaching career as an offensive graduate assistant coach in 2011.
 
He helped coach the Owls to a Conference USA championship, a Liberty Bowl berth in 2013 and a 33-14 victory over Air Force in the 2012 Armed Forces Bowl.  His coaching experience also includes completing an NFL minority internship with the New York Jets while working with the running backs in the spring and summer of 2013.
 
Mayes began his coaching career after playing four seasons at Kansas, where he developed into a standout offensive guard and was named the Jayhawks’ Offensive Lineman of the Year as a senior. He initially joined the Jayhawks as a walk-on before being named a two-time Honorable Mention All-Big 12 selection and playing on three bowl championship teams in the 2005 Fort Worth Bowl, 2008 Orange Bowl and 2008 Insight Bowl. He also was named to the Big 12 All-Academic Second Team twice.
 
Mayes earned his bachelor’s degree in business management leadership and a master’s degree in sports administration at Kansas. He also served a graduate assistant on the strength and conditioning staff at Kansas. He and his wife, Amy, have a son, Aiden.