When Head Coach G.J. Kinne filled out his coaching staff during the 2022 University of Incarnate Word football season, the current head coach of Texas State wanted to find a defensive coordinator that could complement his high powered offense.
“I wanted somebody when I got the job at UIW that has been in the system,” Kinne said. “I obviously know about the offensive since me and Mack [Leftwich] could handle. … I need someone [that] when things go wrong, he knows what is going on. He has been in the same system and wasn’t putting something together at the last minute. He had a plan and knows exactly what he is doing.”
Kinne ended up finding his coach in the form of now Texas State defensive coordinator Jonathan Patke who previously spent the last six years with the Miami Hurricanes coaching both inside and outside linebackers as well as serving as the special teams coordinator.
