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Jules Montinar

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Montinar comes to Stillwater with 15 years of coaching experience, most recently serving as the defensive pass game coordinator and cornerbacks coach at East Carolina University for the 2023 and 2024 seasons.

He was part of a 2024 defensive unit that finished the regular season ranked No. 9 nationally in defensive touchdowns (three), No. 11 in tackles for loss (7.3 per game) No. 16 in red zone defense (.750), No. 25 in turnovers gained (21) and No. 27 in interceptions (13).

Montinar helped lead an ECU defensive unit in 2023 that finished among FBS top 30 in seven statistical categories, including fourth down conversion percentage (fourth), first down defense (11^th), defensive touchdowns (15th), fumbles recovered (16th), tackles for loss (17th), red zone conversion percentage (19th) and rushing defense (29th).

Coached by Montinar, cornerback Shavon Revel earned All-AAC second-team honors in 2023 after tallying 55 total tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, 12 pass breakups, two blocked kicks, an interception and a sack.

Prior to East Carolina, Montinar spent a year at Temple in 2022 serving as the cornerbacks coach. His group helped the Owls finish third in The American and 28th nationally in pass defense.

He served as the cornerbacks coach at Florida for one season in 2021, where he mentored a unit that ranked No. 1 in pass defense in SEC play, improving from a ninth-place ranking in 2020.

In 2020, Montinar was South Florida’s cornerbacks coach and recruiting coordinator. The Bulls finished the season ranked fifth in The American in pass defense (229.0 ypg) and second with 10 interceptions.

He spent the 2019 season as a defensive quality control assistant at Georgia where the Bulldogs completed a 12-2 season and secured a top five national ranking with a 26-14 Sugar Bowl victory over Baylor.

From 2016-18, Montinar spent three seasons as the cornerbacks coach at Texas State, adding special teams coordinator duties in 2018. Under his guidance, the Bobcats’ kick return defense jumped from 108th to 14th in the national rankings, while their kick return offense improved from 125th to 52nd and their punt return average went from 68th to 32nd in his lone season leading the special teams. He established himself as an elite recruiter at TSU, earning 247Sports’ 2017 Sun Belt Recruiter-of-the-Year honors.

While at James Madison from 2014-15, he coached a group that broke up 59 passes, collected 14 interceptions (returning six of them for touchdowns) and forced and recovered eight fumbles in 2015. In all, his unit collected 22 turnovers and scored seven touchdowns. The Dukes’ corners led the FCS with four pick-sixes in 2014. Montinar helped produce all-conference cornerback Taylor Reynolds, who earned first-team honors in 2015 and second team in 2014.

Montinar spent two years as a graduate assistant coaching the defense at Alabama from 2012-13, working alongside Nick Saban and Kirby Smart. In his first year, the Crimson Tide won the BCS National Championship Game after beating Notre Dame. The 2012 Tide defense posted four shutouts and held six opponents to 10 points or less while leading the nation in rush defense, total defense and scoring defense. He also helped Alabama finish the 2013 season with an 11-2 record and earn a berth to the Sugar Bowl.

He also served as a graduate assistant at Purdue in 2011, and prior to that he was a defensive backs coach and assistant special teams coach at Lake Erie College in 2010.

Montinar began his coaching career working with linebackers and defensive ends at his alma mater, Eastern Kentuckym in 2008 and 2009. H also took part in the NFL’s summer coaching internship program with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2007 and 2008.

A native of Naples, Fla., Montinar graduated from Eastern Kentucky in 2009, earning both a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in sports management. He was an all-state safety at Naples High School and as a senior in 2002 he was named the Naples Daily News and Southwest Florida Defensive Player of the Year. He helped lead Naples to the Florida Class 5A state championship as a junior in 2001.

Montinar began his collegiate playing career at West Virginia before transferring to Eastern Kentucky, He participated in a pair of Gator Bowls while at WVU before heading to EKU, where he was a starting defensive back and special teams captain. He won an Ohio Valley Conference championship as a senior in 2007 before winning another as a coach the following season in 2008.

He and his wife, Brittany, have two sons, Madden and Maverick, and two daughters, Maya and Macy.

Year-By-Year
2008-09	Eastern Kentucky	Linebackers/Defensive Ends
2010	Lake Erie College	Defensive Backs/Asst. Special Teams
2011	Purdue	Graduate Assistant
2012-13	Alabama	Graduate Assistant
2014-15	James Madison	Cornerbacks
2016-18	Texas State	Cornerbacks/Special Teams Coordinator (2018)
2019	Georgia	Defense Quality Control
2020	South Florida	Cornerbacks/Recruiting Coordinator
2021	Florida	Cornerbacks
2022	Temple	Cornerbacks
2023-24	East Carolina	Defensive Pass Game Coordinator/Cornerbacks
2025	Oklahoma State	Cornerbacks