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Dexter McCoil, Sr. was promoted to defensive coordinator in February 2024 after serving as the safeties coach in 2023.
In his first season at Texas State in 2023, McCoil helped develop a group of safeties who were in their first season with the Bobcats and at the FBS level after team captain Tory Spears went down with an injury early in the season.
Shawn Holton and Kaleb Culp, both starters who transferred in from UIW, wreaked havoc in the secondary. Holton was tied for third in the country in forced fumbles while Culp was first in fumbles recovered. Both helped the Bobcats finish 26th in the nation in turnovers gained. Holton and Culp were also second and third on the team, respectively, in tackles. Holton earned All-Sun Belt honorable mention honors after starting all 13 games.
McCoil joined the Bobcats after coaching at UIW in 2022 with Texas State head coach GJ Kinne. As the safeties coach and NFL/CFL liaison for the Cardinals, he helped the program win a Southland Conference championship and reach the FCS Playoff semifinals for the first time in program history. He also tutored Culp to all-conference honors after he was second on the team in tackles and forced two fumbles.
With high-level playing experience in college and in the pros, McCoil began his coaching career at the high school level in his home state of Louisiana. He started out as the defensive backs coach at his alma mater, Lutcher High School in Louisiana, in 2018. In 2020 and 2021, he was the defensive backs coach at East Ascension High School (LA) and helped three of the four starting cornerbacks earn all-district honors.
McCoil played professional football for nine years, including three years in the NFL and four years in the CFL. In 2014, he was named the CFL Rookie of the Year and helped the Edmonton Eskimos win the 2015 Grey Cup. In the NFL, he played for the San Diego Chargers and San Francisco 49ers.
His professional playing career followed an award-ridden career at Tulsa, where he was teammates with Kinne and set the program and Conference USA career interception record. He was a C-USA Second Team honoree, Freshman All-America Honorable Mention selection, and the 2011 Armed Forces Bowl Defensive MVP.
At Lutcher High School as a student, McCoil helped the school win two state championships.
Bradley Dale Peveto was named Texas State’s co-defensive coordinator/linebackers coach in February 2024.
Peveto (pronounced PEA-vit-toe) arrived in San Marcos with more than 30 years of coaching experience, including time as a head coach as well as an assistant coach for national champions at both the FBS and FCS levels.
A native of southeast Texas, Peveto has spent more than 14 years coaching in the state of Texas. The former SMU defensive back came to Texas State after three years at UTEP as the defensive coordinator. He also had in-state stops at Texas A&M, Houston, Stephen F. Austin and Trinity Valley Community College.
Peveto has been a part of teams that have reached 11 bowl games, including the 2007 BCS National Championship with LSU as the national champion's linebackers coach and special teams coordinator. His teams have also made four appearances in the FCS Playoffs and helped lead Stephen F. Austin to a national championship in 1989.
A four-year letterwinner as a defensive back at SMU, Peveto served as team captain as a senior in 1986. He was also named the Wild Mustang Special Teams Player of the Year and was the recipient of the Mike Kelsey Award during his playing days. After graduating from SMU in 1987, he added a master’s degree from Stephen F. Austin in 1989.
Peveto comes from a family with a rich football coaching tradition. His late father, Ed, coached high school football in the southeast Texas area and was inducted into the Greater Houston Coaches Hall of Honor in 1993 and into the Golden Triangle Coaches Hall of Fame in 1997. Two of his brothers, Jeff and Garey Birt, coached at high schools in the southeast Texas area.
Peveto and his wife Melissa have two children, Payton and Jake
Matthew Gregg was named the Texas State cornerbacks coach in December 2022.
Gregg came to Texas State from Incarnate Word, where he was the secondary coach since 2019. He helped lift the Cardinals to two conference championships.
Prior to UIW, Gregg was the linebackers coach, recruiting coordinator and special teams coordinator at Kilgore College in 2018. He helped the Rangers win a conference championship and tutored several players who went on to play at the NCAA level.
Gregg was a high school coach in Texas and Oklahoma for three years before making the jump to the junior college level. He started out at Bethany High School in Bethany, Oklahoma in 2015 before coaching at Van Vleck High School (TX) in 2016 and Fort Bend Hightower High School (TX) in 2017. At each stop he was the linebackers coach while he was also the special teams coordinator at Fort Bend Hightower and Van Vleck.
From Houston, Texas, Gregg played collegiately at Southern Nazarene and Kilgore College. The All-American linebacker was also a team captain while at Southern Nazarene.
Dexter McCoil, Sr. was named the safeties coach at Texas State in December 2022.
McCoil joined the Bobcats after coaching at Incarnate Word in 2022. As the safeties coach and NFL/CFL liaison for the Cardinals, he helped the program win a Southland Conference championship and reach the FCS Playoff semifinals for the first time in program history. He also tutored Kaleb Culp to all-conference honors this season after Culp was second on the team in tackles while also forcing two fumbles.
With high-level playing experience in college and in the pros, McCoil began his coaching career at the high school level in his home state of Louisiana. He started out as the defensive backs coach at his alma mater, Lutcher High School in Louisiana, in 2018. In 2020 and 2021, he was the defensive backs coach at East Ascension High School (LA) and helped three of the four starting cornerbacks earn all-district honors.
McCoil played professional football for nine years, including three years in the NFL and four years in the CFL. In 2014, he was named the CFL Rookie of the Year and helped the Edmonton Eskimos win the 2015 Grey Cup. In the NFL, he played for the San Diego Chargers and San Francisco 49ers.
His professional playing career followed an award-ridden career at Tulsa, where he was teammates with Kinne and set the program and Conference USA career interception record. He was a C-USA Second Team honoree, Freshman All-America Honorable Mention selection, and the 2011 Armed Forces Bowl Defensive MVP.
At Lutcher High School as a student, McCoil helped the school win two state championships.
Mike O’Guin was named Texas State’s defensive line coach in December 2022.
In his first season at Texas State in 2023, O’Guin led a defensive line group that was one of the best in the country in getting into the backfield. The Bobcats led the nation in tackles for loss and were top-10 in sacks. They also nearly broke the overall program record for TFLs in a season with 110.0 and set the program’s FBS record for most sacks in a season with 40.0.
Ben Bell, a second team All-Sun Belt selection, led the defensive line with an FBS program-record 10.0 sacks and 16.0 TFLs. The junior and second-year Bobcat was among the best in the country as a pass rusher according to PFF as he was second in the country in PFF pass rush grades and first in win percentage on pass rushes. He totaled 53 pressures.
Overall, Texas State’s defensive line accounted for 31 of the team’s 40 sacks.
A relentless recruiter, O’Guin arrived in San Marcos with experience at the high school and FBS levels, working with the defensive lines at Texas Tech, Notre Dame, Sam Houston and three different Texas high schools.
Prior to Texas State, O’Guin was the defensive line coach at Sam Houston in 2021 and 2022. He helped the Bearkat defense rank in the top-20 in FCS in scoring defense, rushing defense, first down defense and tackles for loss while also pacing the WAC in total defense in 2022.
Also in 2022, he tutored Toby Ndukwe and Ellison Hubbard to All-WAC honors after Ndukwe (first team) was third on the team in tackles and fourth in the conference in tackles for loss. Hubbard, meanwhile, was All-WAC Second Team after tabulating 6 quarterback hurries, 4 TFLs and 1.5 sacks in 9 games.
O’Guin got his collegiate coaching start at Texas Tech as a graduate assistant in 2019. He joined Notre Dame in the summer of 2020 and spent that season, when the Fighting Irish went 10-2, as a defensive line assistant.
Before making his return to the collegiate ranks, O’Guin was a defensive line coach at the high school level in Texas for five years. He started at John Tyler High School in 2014 and then spent two seasons at Angleton High School (2015-16). In 2017 and 2018, he coached at North Shore High School in the Houston area and helped it win the 6A-Division I state title in 2018.
O’Guin coached former Bobcat edge rusher Jordan Revels and Texas Tech’s Tony Bradford Jr. during his time at North Shore, pushing Bradford Jr. to Defensive Player of the Year honors at the Touchdown Club of Houston’s area end-of-year awards banquet in 2018. Bradford was also named the District 21-6A Defensive Player of the Year.
Prior to joining the coaching profession, O’Guin was a scholarship student-athlete at SMU where he saw action in six games as a true freshman in 2010 before a knee injury the following spring unfortunately ended his career. O’Guin remained with the program as a student assistant coach for the next three years, working primarily with the defensive line while also overseeing SMU’s annual Junior Day event and assisting with recruiting.
O’Guin, from Missouri City, Texas, earned dual degrees during his time at SMU, graduating with a bachelor’s in history as well as applied physiology and sport management in 2014.