Spartans Name Craig Stutzmann as Offensive Coordinator, Retain Kevin McGiven on Staff

 

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Craig Stutzmann has been named offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach and Kevin McGiven named passing game coordinator/wide receivers coach, announced by San José State head football coach Ken Niumatalolo on Monday.

Stutzmann is known as the inventor of the “Spread-and-Shred” offense and was a wide receiver at the University of Hawai‘i for four seasons under legendary head coach June Jones.

"Having played for June Jones and working with Nick Rolovich in the run and shoot system, I'm looking forward to having the chance to bring the Spread-and-Shred offense to San José State," said Stutzmann. "Coach Niumatalolo has been a coaching mentor to me from the beginning and I can't wait to get started."

Since 2003, the Hilo, Hawai‘i native has moved his way up through the coaching ranks at schools like Washington State, Hawai‘i, Utah Tech, Weber State and most recently was wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator at Texas State where the Bobcats ranked 28th in the country in passing offense last season and had three different receivers with 55 or more catches. Texas State also broke the program’s overall record for passing yards in a season last year. All three receivers were named to All-Sun Belt teams.

• In 2023, Texas State's offense was ranked 15th in the country and tops in the Sun Belt in total offense (457.6 yards/game) and 12th in the country in scoring offense (36.7 points/game).
• Last season, Stutzmann was one of six finalists for FootballScoop’s National Wide Receivers Coach of the Year and had a player on the Biletnikoff Award watch list.
• Part of the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship with the Green Bay Packers in the summer of 2022.
• In 2022 at Utah Tech, his offense averaged 425.4 yards per game, including 310.4 passing yards, and scored 28.4 points per contest.
• Spent two seasons at Washington State, where he was the Cougars’ co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and led them to the Pac-12’s top red zone offense and had the conference’s third-best passing attack.
• Helped guide Hawai‘i to three bowl games, including a 38-34 victory over BYU in the Hawai’i Bowl in 2019 that helped the team finish with a 10-win season.
• At Hawai‘i, they had the ninth-ranked passing offense in the nation in 2018 and the fifth-rated passing attack in 2019.
• They averaged over 30 points a game over that two-year span at Hawai‘i.
• In 2019, he was one of six finalists for the FootballScoop National Quarterback Coach of the Year.
• 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.
• Began college coaching career as a graduate assistant at Hawai’i during the 2008 season, which was followed by stints at Portland State (wide receivers coach in 2009) and Memphis (graduate assistant in 2010).
• While at Saint Louis High School (2004-07), 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.
• Four-year letterwinner and three-year starter at Hawai’i from 1998-2001, where he finished fifth on the school’s all-time receiving list (2,025 yards) and was a two-time All-WAC honorable mention selection.
• Earned a bachelor’s degree in 2002 and master’s degree in 2014, both at Hawai’i. He and his wife, Briana, have one son, Baylor. 

McGiven returns to the Spartans for his seventh season at SJSU and will move to wide receivers coach and the passing game coordinator. As the offensive coordinator last year, the Spartans ran for 150 yards or more in nine games and surpassed 100 yards in 11 games.

• The Spartans tallied 313 yards on the ground against No. 25 Fresno State which were the most since Sept. 10, 2016 when they rushed for 409 yards against Portland State.
• The Spartans also rushed for 259 yards at UNM (10/14) and 251 yards against Utah State (10/21) and that was the first time since 2006 the Spartans had back-to-back 250 plus rushing yard games.
• The 2,393 rushing yards the Spartans finished the season with are the most for the Spartans this century and only 85 yards behind the SJSU single-season record.
• Senior running back Kairee Robinson led the charge for the Spartans finishing with all single-season career-highs in touchdowns (18, SJSU record), yards (1,127), and average per game (102.5). Robinson scored a rushing touchdown in 11 of 12 games played this season.
• Both Robinson and senior quarterback Chevan Cordeiro made All-Mountain West First Team.
• Cordeiro's four interceptions were good for seventh in the country and threw the fewest interceptions in the Mountain West.
• Cordeiro a passer rating of 142.0 which was good for third in the Mountain West
• Cordeiro's 140.7 passer rating at SJSU is good for second all-time at SJSU only behind David Fales who had a 161.7 rating.