Texas State is set to promote Dexter McCoil, Sr., to defensive coordinator, sources told FootballScoop on Thursday. 247Sports first reported the news.
McCoil joined the Bobcats in December of 2022 as an original member of GJ Kinne's staff. He coached safeties on Kinne's Incarnate Word staff in 2022, and prior to that coached defensive backs in the Louisiana high school ranks.
McCoil and Kinne were teammates at Tulsa in the early 2010s.
Following his time as a Golden Hurricane, McCoil played professionally for nine years -- bouncing between the Arena League, the CFL, the NFL, and the XFL. He won CFL Rookie of the Year honors in 2014, won a Grey Cup with the Edmonton Eskimos in 2015, and spent parts of three seasons with the Chargers and 49ers.
McCoil replaces Jonathan Patke, who took the defensive coordinator job on Manny Diaz's new Duke staff in December.
Texas State is coming off its best season at the FBS level, going 8-5 with a win over Rice in the First Responder Bowl.
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