Craig Stutzmann was named the offensive coordinator at San Jos\u00e9 State on Jan. 22, 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his first season at SJSU, Stutzmann helped lead wide receiver Nick Nash become the first unanimous First Team All-American in SJSU history and the first Biletnikoff Award Finalist in SJSU history. Nash was only the fourth player in FBS history to earn the regular season triple crown by leading the country in catches (104), yards (1,382), and touchdowns (16). Nash broke the SJSU single-season touchdown and catch records, and he and Justin Lockhart (983 yards) were the best one-two receiving punch in the country.<\/p>\n
The Spartans finished the 2024 season with\u00a04,183 passing yards, which was good for first in the Mountain West Conference and fifth in the nation, averaging 321.8 yards per game. The 4,183 passing yards are good for third in San Jos\u00e9 State’s single-season history as the Spartans went to the Hawai\u2018i Bowl and finished with seven wins.<\/p>\n
In his second season at SJSU, Stutzmann was\u00a0a nominee for the 2025 Broyles Award, which honors college football\u2019s top assistant coaches, by the Frank and Barbara Broyles Foundation.<\/p>\n
Stutzmann helped guide SJSU to the second-best passing offense in the Mountain West and the 14th-ranked passing offense nationally, averaging 282.3 yards per game.<\/p>\n
Under his leadership, wide receiver Danny Scudero earned All-Mountain West First Team honors and was named a Biletnikoff Award Semifinalist, plus was named to numerous All-American second teams. Scudero finished the regular season leading the nation with 1,291 receiving yards and 107.6 yards per game\u2014the fifth-highest single-season total in SJSU history. His 88 receptions rank third in program history, fourth nationally, and first in the Mountain West. Scudero also recorded 10 touchdowns, tied for the fifth-most in a single season at SJSU and 10th nationally.<\/p>\n
This marks the second consecutive season that an SJSU wide receiver has led the nation in receiving yards and yards per game following the regular season.<\/p>\n
Wide receivers Kyri Shoels and Leland Smith were each named All-Mountain West Honorable Mention selections. Shoels concluded his first FBS season with 59 receptions for 768 yards and two touchdowns, ranking fourth in the conference in receptions and fifth in receiving yards. Smith posted career highs with 43 receptions for 688 yards and three touchdowns, finishing eighth in the Mountain West in receiving yards and 12th in receptions.<\/p>\n
The Spartans ended the regular season as the only school in the country to have three different receivers have 100 or more receiving yards in the same game twice during the season.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Walker Eget went 275 passing attempts without an interception, the third-longest streak in Mountain West history. He finished second in the conference with 3,047 passing yards and ranked second in passing average (277.0 yards per game). Eget was also one of only two quarterbacks nationwide to throw for 450+ yards twice, including a career-high 473 yards and three touchdowns at Stanford (Sept. 27, 2025). During a dominant seven-game stretch this season, Stutzmann\u2019s offense averaged 7.2 yards per play. Eget only played in 11 games during an injury-plagued season.<\/p>\n
Before 2024, Stutzmann was the wide receivers coach\/passing game coordinator at Texas State since December 2022.
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In 2023, the Bobcats, who ranked 28th in the country in passing offense, featured three different receivers with 55 or more catches. Texas State also broke the program\u2019s overall record for passing yards in a season.
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The trio of receivers marked the first time in Texas State\u2019s FBS history that the Bobcats had 3 different players with 50+ catches in a season.
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Stutzmann\u2019s run-and-shoot offense influence also played a role in the Bobcats’ ranking 15th in the country and tops in the Sun Belt in total offense (457.6 yards\/game) and 12th in scoring offense (36.7 points\/game).
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He was also one of six finalists for\u00a0FootballScoop\u2019s National Wide Receivers Coach of the Year. He also helped Hobert get named to the Biletnikoff Award watch list.
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Before arriving at Texas State, Stutzmann had previous coaching stops at Utah Tech, Washington State, Hawaii, and others in 20+ years of coaching at the collegiate and high school levels.
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Immediately before being a member of the Bobcats\u2019 coaching staff, Stutzmann spent one season at Utah Tech as the offensive coordinator in 2022. He helped the Trailblazers utilize the \u201cSpread-&-Shred\u201d offense, and, although they were not eligible for national rankings because they were in their third NCAA Division I transition season, the Trailblazers would have ranked No. 25 in total offense and No. 6 in passing offense. They averaged 425.4 yards per game, including 310.4 passing yards, and scored 28.4 points per contest.
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Bobcat receiver Joey Hobert was a consensus FCS All-American within Stutzmann\u2019s offense at Utah Tech in 2022. Hobert, who transferred to the program from Washington State, led the nation in receiving yards and touchdown catches and also finished second in the country in receiving yards per game and receptions per game.
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Stutzmann also served as a member of the Green Bay Packers Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship program in the summer of 2022.<\/p>\n
Stutzmann went to Utah Tech after two seasons at Washington State, where he was the Cougars\u2019 co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2020 to 2021. In his first season, the Cougars were the Pac-12\u2019s top red zone offense and had the conference\u2019s third-best passing attack.<\/p>\n
Before his time at Washington State, Stutzmann served in the same role at his alma mater, Hawai\u2019i, from 2016 to 2019. With the Rainbow Warriors, he helped guide them to three bowl games, including a 38-34 victory over BYU in the Hawai\u2019i Bowl in 2019 that helped the team finish with a 10-win season.
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Stutzmann helped direct a Hawai\u2019i offense that improved in total offense and passing offense in each of those four seasons, producing the country\u2019s ninth-ranked passing offense in 2018, the fifth-rated passing attack in 2019, and an offense that averaged over 30 points a game over those two years.<\/p>\n
In 2019, Stutzmann was named one of six finalists for the\u00a0FootballScoop National Quarterback Coach of the Year for his efforts in coaching two-time All-Mountain West Conference quarterback Cole McDonald. McDonald finished third in the nation that season in passing yards (4,135), seventh in passing yards-per-game (295.4), eighth in touchdown passes (33), and was second on the team with seven rushing touchdowns.
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In 2018, Stutzmann helped the Hawai\u2019i offense finish ninth in the country in passing offense as McDonald passed for the sixth-most touchdowns (36) and eighth-most yards (3,875) nationally, while wide receiver John Ursua led the country with 16 touchdown catches and was fifth in receiving yards (1,343).<\/p>\n
Stutzmann helped the Hawaii offense earn 12 All-Mountain West selections in his four seasons, highlighted by Ursua, who was a 2018 Biletnikoff Award Semifinalist and Polynesian Football Hall of Fame College Player of the Year Finalist. He was later selected in the seventh round of the 2019 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n
Stutzmann had other coaching stops at Emory & Henry College (2014-15) as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Weber State (2012-13) as the wide receivers coach, and Rhodes College (2011) as the wide receivers coach.<\/p>\n
Stutzmann began his college coaching career as a graduate assistant at Hawai\u2019i during the 2008 season, which was followed by stints at Portland State (wide receivers coach in 2009) and Memphis (graduate assistant in 2010).<\/p>\n
A native of Hawai\u2019i, Stutzmann also coached at Kalaheo High School in Kailua, O\u2018ahu, where he spent the 2003 seasons as a teacher and offensive coordinator before moving on to his alma mater, Saint Louis High School, where he coached for four years (2004-07), including three years as junior varsity head coach. While at Saint Louis, he coached Marcus Mariota, who won the 2014 Heisman Trophy and was the second overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft by the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n
Stutzmann was a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter at Hawai\u2019i from 1998-2001, where he finished fifth on the school\u2019s all-time receiving list (2,025 yards) and was a two-time All-WAC honorable mention selection.
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He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in 2002 and his master\u2019s degree in 2014, both at Hawai\u2019i. He and his wife, Briana, have one son, Baylor. His brother is SJSU’s wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator, Billy Ray Stutzmann.
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Craig Stutzmann Coaching Timeline<\/p>\n
2024-Present: San Jos\u00e9 State – Offensive coordinator
2023: Texas State \u2013 Wide receivers\/passing game coordinator
2022: Utah Tech \u2013 Offensive coordinator
2022: Green Bay Packers – Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship
2021: Washington State \u2013 Co-offensive coordinator\/quarterbacks
2020: Washington State \u2013 Co-offensive coordinator\/quarterbacks
2019: Hawaii \u2013 Passing game coordinator\/quarterbacks
2018: Hawaii \u2013 Passing game coordinator\/quarterbacks
2017: Hawaii \u2013 Passing game coordinator\/quarterbacks
2016: Hawaii \u2013 Passing game coordinator\/quarterbacks
2015: Emory & Henry College \u2013 Offensive coordinator\/quarterbacks
2014: Emory & Henry College \u2013 Offensive coordinator\/quarterbacks
2013: Weber State \u2013 Wide receivers
2012: Weber State \u2013 Wide receivers
2011: Rhodes College (TN) \u2013 Wide receivers
2010: Memphis \u2013 Graduate assistant
2009: Portland State \u2013 Wide receivers
2008: Hawaii \u2013 Graduate assistant
2007: Saint Louis High School (HI)
2006: Saint Louis High School (HI)
2005: Saint Louis High School (HI)
2004: Saint Louis High School (HI)
2003: Kalaheo High School (HI) \u2013 Offensive Coordinator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Stutzmann was named the offensive coordinator at San Jos\u00e9 State on Jan. 22, 2024.\u00a0 In his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-351455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}