Coach Kinne Football Camps Offensive Coaching Staff

Landon Keopple is in his second season with the Bobcats (2025) after serving as the assistant wide receivers coach in 2023 and was instrumental in helping TXST to its second straight win in the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl. The Texas State offense finished the 2024 season top 10 in scoring and total offense and in the top 25 in rushing and passing offense. He was promoted to offensive coordinator in January 2025.

The Fayetteville, Arkansas, native spent the 2022 season under Kinne at UIW, serving as a senior offensive analyst. During that season, the Cardinals won the Southland Championship and earned a No. 7 national ranking and a national seed in the FCS Playoffs. UIW finished the season 12-2 with an appearance in the FCS semifinals and led all of NCAA Division I – FBS and FCS – with 51.5 points and 581.2 yards per game.

In their first stop together, Keopple worked as a senior offensive analyst under OC Kinne at Hawaii in 2020 and remained on staff for the 2021 season as the chief of staff/director of football operations as well as the director of recruiting.

Prior to his time at Hawaii, Keopple spent 11 years at Southern Arkansas (Division II), including nine years as its offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach/recruiting coordinator (2011-19). In this role, he coached 51 All-GAC selections in the last seven years and helped a quarterback earn all-conference in eight straight seasons. He also mentored the program's all-time leading passer, rusher and wide receiver in school history. During the 2009-10 seasons, Keopple served as the quarterbacks coach, wide receivers coach and strength & conditioning coordinator.

Keopple opened his coaching career at Ouachita Baptist (Division II) as a graduate assistant and wide receivers coach from 2007-08 following a standout career at Tulsa where he helped the Golden Hurricane to a Conference USA championship in 2005 and two bowl game appearances (2003 Humanitarian Bowl and 2005 Liberty Bowl). 

Will Bryant joined the Bobcats in December 2022 when he was named the tight ends coach.

A native Texan, Bryant arrived in San Marcos with experience at the high school, FCS and FBS levels in his nine-year coaching career.

Prior to Texas State, Bryant’s last coaching stop was at Incarnate Word, where he was the tight ends coach and helped the program reach the FCS Playoffs semifinals for the first time in program history. The Cardinals also won their second straight Southland Conference championship and earned a No. 7 national seed in the playoffs.

Part of the nation’s top offense, Bryant and the tight ends helped the Cardinals become the nation’s highest scoring offense at both the FBS and FCS levels as well as the second-ranked FCS team in total offense. The team ran for more than 3,000 yards, a program record, and was second in the country in passing offense.

Bryant joined UIW after spending one season at Allen High School (TX) as the associate head coach, running backs coach and recruiting coordinator in 2021. He mentored multiple record-breaking pass catchers who went on to play at the FBS level.

He also has coaching stops at Auburn as an offensive analyst (2020), UTSA as an offensive analyst (2020), Arkansas as a senior offensive analyst (2018-19) and SMU as a graduate assistant (2015-18). Bryant coach alongside Texas State head coach GJ Kinne at Arkansas (2018) and SMU (2017).

Bryant is from Amarillo, Texas and graduated from Texas Tech a Bachelor of Art in Exercise Sports Science.

One of the greatest players in Texas State football history, Barrick Nealy was named the running backs coach in January 2024.

Nealy is a familiar name to Bobcat Nation as he led Texas State to the semifinals of the 2005 FCS/Division I-AA Playoffs and was named an All-American and a finalist for the Walter Payton Award that season. In one of the best seasons in the program’s history, Texas State finished 2005 season ranked No. 4 in the country.

Nealy, a dual-threat quarterback, remains among the program’s career leaders in several categories, including third in both passing yards and passing touchdowns.

Nealy returned to San Marcos – where he played collegiately and coached at the high school level – after six years at UTEP. He started out as the director of player development and high school relations in 2018 before being elevated to the recruiting coordinator/senior player personnel director in 2019. Starting in 2020, he was promoted to an on-the-field coaching role as the team’s running backs coach, which was a title he held for two seasons. In 2022 and 2023, he served as an assistant head coach/running backs coach while still maintaining the role of recruiting coordinator.

With the Miners, Nealy tutored three-time all-conference selection Deion Hankins and NFL signee Ronald Awatt during his four years as the team’s running backs coach. Hankins, who was a second team All-Conference USA selection in 2022 and 2023 as well as an all-freshman honoree in 2020, totaled 2,604 rushing yards in his UTEP career, which finished as seventh-most in the program’s history. He was also sixth in UTEP’s history in career rushing touchdowns with 23. Awatt, who signed with the San Francisco 49ers after the 2023 NFL Draft, had 1,781 career rushing yards, including a career-best 844 in 2021.

Over the course of his tenure, Nealy improved the rushing offense’s conference ranking each year as Hankins and Awatt developed. In 2022, the Miners were fifth in CUSA – and 54th in the country – in rushing offense while in 2023, UTEP was third in the conference in rushing offense. The 2023 output was powered by Hankins, who finished fourth in CUSA in rushing yards.

Nealy also helped the Miners reach the 2021 New Mexico Bowl, the program’s first bowl game since 2014

Nealy’s coaching career began in 2011 at San Marcos Academy where he served as the quarterbacks and wide receivers coach for two seasons before becoming the offensive coordinator from 2013-17. He helped lead the team to a 2015 TCAL state championship.

As a Bobcat from 2003 to 2005, Nealy established himself as one of the program’s most prolific quarterbacks. His run piloting the Bobcat offense culminated with the conference championship season in 2005 when he was named a second team All-American and Southland Conference Player of the Year as well as finished fifth in voting for the Walter Payton Award. He had 2,875 passing yards, 1,057 rushing yards, and 34 total touchdowns.

Nealy, who still owns seven school records and is top-10 in in 30 different categories for single-season and career program records, threw for 7,206 yards and 52 touchdowns as a Bobcat. The dual-threat quarterback had 8,933 total yards and 70 touchdowns.

Following his successful 2005 campaign, Nealy signed an undrafted free agent contract with the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings and was a wide receiver in 2006. Later that year, Nealy inked a contract with the CFL’s Calgary Stampeders, where he played quarterback for five seasons (2006-10). He was a member of the 2008 Grey Cup champions while with Calgary.

Nealy, originally from Dallas, earned his Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences degree from Texas State in 2017.  He and his wife, Tiffany, have two sons, Sir Isaac and Isaiah, and a daughter, Sage.

Jordan Shoemaker was named the Texas State offensive line coach and run game coordinator in December 2022.

Shoemaker joined the Bobcats with head coach G.J. Kinne after five years at UIW, where he was the offensive line coach for his entire tenure.

With the Cardinals, Shoemaker mentored seven offensive linemen combine for 12 All-Southland honors over five seasons as well as helped the team reach the FCS Playoffs and win the Southland Conference three times.

A former offensive lineman at Houston, Shoemaker has worked at Baylor in addition to UIW at the collegiate level. He also coached one season at Magnolia West High School (2017).

A graduate of Midlothian High School in his hometown of Midlothian, Texas, Shoemaker earned all-district honors as a sophomore, junior and senior on both the offensive and defensive line. He was inducted into the Midlothian Athletics Hall of Honor Class of 2015.

Shoemaker is married to Samantha Shoemaker. Together they have a daughter Payton and son Logan.

In his season away from San Marcos, Martinez served as the running backs coach at Stephen F. Austin, helping the Lumberjacks to a seven-win season, including a 32-19 victory over No. 11 Abilene Christian to close the season, after only winning three games in 2023. SFA finished the season ranked eighth in the FCS in scoring offense and 13th in total offense.

Prior to his first stint at Texas State, Martinez was the special teams coordinator, running backs/tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator for Duncanville High School (TX) for two years from 2021 to 2022. He helped Duncanville win the 6A Division I state championship in 2022.

Martinez was the tight ends coach, pass game coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Red Oak High School (TX) from 2019 to 2021, and started his career as a student assistant coach at Sam Houston, working with the offensive line (2017-18) and tight ends (2018-19).