Craig Stutzmann was named the offensive coordinator at San José State on Jan. 22, 2024.
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.
The Spartans finished the 2024 season with 4,183 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 José State's single-season history as the Spartans went to the Hawai‘i Bowl and finished with seven wins.
Prior to 2024, Stutzmann was wide receivers coach/passing game coordinator at Texas State since December 2022.
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’s overall record for passing yards in a season.
The trio of receivers marked the first time in Texas State’s FBS history that the Bobcats had 3 different players with 50+ catches in a season.
Stutzmann’s 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).
He was also one of six finalists for FootballScoop’s National Wide Receivers Coach of the Year. He also helped Hobert get named to the Biletnikoff Award watch list.
Before arriving at Texas State, Stutzmann had previous coaching stops at Utah Tech, Washington State, Hawaii and others in 20+ years coaching at the collegiate and high school levels.
Immediately prior to being a member of the Bobcats’ coaching staff, Stutzmann spent one season at Utah Tech as the offensive coordinator in 2022. He helped the Trailblazers utilize the “Spread-and-Shred” offense and, while they were not eligible for national rankings as they were in their third NCAA Division I transition season, the Trailblazers would have ranked No. 25 in the country 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.
Bobcat receiver Joey Hobert was a consensus FCS All-American within Stutzmann’s 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.
Stutzmann also served as a member of the Green Bay Packers Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship program in the summer of 2022.
Stutzmann went to Utah Tech after two seasons at Washington State, where he was the Cougars’ co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2020 to 2021. In his first season, the Cougars were the Pac-12’s top red zone offense and had the conference’s third-best passing attack.
Prior to his time at Washington State, Stutzmann served in the same role at his alma mater, Hawai’i, 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’i Bowl in 2019 that helped the team finish with a 10-win season.
Stutzmann helped direct a Hawai’i offense that improved in total offense and passing offense in each of those four seasons, producing the country’s ninth-ranked passing offense in 2018, the fifth-rated passing attack in 2019, and an offense that averaged over 30 points a game over that two-year span.
In 2019, Stutzmann was named one of six finalists for the FootballScoop 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.
In 2018, Stutzmann helped the Hawai’i 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).
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.
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.
Stutzmann began his 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).
A native of Hawai’i, Stutzmann also coached at Kalaheo High School in Kailua, O‘ahu, 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.
Stutzmann was a 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.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in 2002 and master’s degree in 2014, both at Hawai’i. He and his wife, Briana, have one son, Baylor. His brother is SJSU senior offensive analyst Billy Ray Stutzmann.
Craig Stutzmann Coaching Timeline
2024-Present: San José State - Offensive coordinator
2023: Texas State – Wide receivers/passing game coordinator
2022: Utah Tech – Offensive coordinator
2022: Green Bay Packers - Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship
2021: Washington State – Co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks
2020: Washington State – Co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks
2019: Hawaii – Passing game coordinator/quarterbacks
2018: Hawaii – Passing game coordinator/quarterbacks
2017: Hawaii – Passing game coordinator/quarterbacks
2016: Hawaii – Passing game coordinator/quarterbacks
2015: Emory & Henry College – Offensive coordinator/quarterbacks
2014: Emory & Henry College – Offensive coordinator/quarterbacks
2013: Weber State – Wide receivers
2012: Weber State – Wide receivers
2011: Rhodes College (TN) – Wide receivers
2010: Memphis – Graduate assistant
2009: Portland State – Wide receivers
2008: Hawaii – 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) – Offensive Coordinator