Issac Mooring | Sam Houston State

Issac Mooring is in his first year as the defensive line/edges coach with the Sam Houston State football program after spending the 2024 season as a defensive analyst at Texas.

Prior to Texas, he spent 2020-23 as the defensive line coach at Houston Christian University.

Prior to HCU, Mooring was the running backs coach at Grand Valley State and saw the group rush for 2,382 yards and 19 touchdowns. He was the defensive line coach at Texas State for the 2017 and 2018 seasons, guiding a pair of All-Sun Belt Conference selections and primarily recruiting the northwest Houston area, as well as Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and junior colleges across the country.

 

Mooring coached the defensive line at Gardner Webb University during the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 seasons, seeing the Bulldogs tie for the conference lead in sacks and two student-athletes earn all-conference honors in his final year. He had three defensive linemen named to the all-conference teams in 2013 and 2015, with one in 2014. During the 2013 season, GWU finished fifth nationally in total defense, 17th in tackles for loss and second in defensive fourth-down conversions. Mooring began his coaching career with the first of five seasons at North Carolina Wesleyan College in 2006, then spent the 2012 season at North Greenville University, before moving on to GWU.

 

Originally born in Seoul, South Korea, Mooring played at Tarboro High School in Tarboro, North Carolina, before playing four seasons at the University of North Carolina. He graduated with a bachelor of arts in interpersonal and organizational communications from UNC in 2003.