Big Ten athletic departments list 152 ticketing staff positions across 18 of the 18 covered schools as of 3 Nov 2026 — 2% of the conference's 6,872 tracked positions, an average of 8.4 per department that has the function. The Ohio State University has the most (18). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 5 hires, 9 departures and 1 title change in these roles.
Data as of 3 Nov 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 18 covered Big Ten schools, re-read on a rolling schedule; roles classified from published titles; changes from successive reads.
One row per covered department. "Positions" counts current (non-departed) staff whose classified role or published title places them in ticketing; changes are non-baseline hires, departures and title changes in those positions over the last 90 days, with same-day directory re-reads excluded.
| School | Division | Ticketing positions | All tracked positions | Hires (90d) | Departures (90d) | Title changes (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Ohio State University | Division I | 18 | 634 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | Division I | 15 | 461 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan State University | Division I | 14 | 302 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| University of Nebraska–Lincoln | Division I | 13 | 397 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Michigan | Division I | 11 | 496 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Maryland | Division I | 10 | 358 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| University of Washington | Division I | 10 | 389 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Indiana University Bloomington | Division I | 9 | 301 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Pennsylvania State University | Division I | 8 | 476 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Purdue University | Division I | 7 | 355 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Minnesota | Division I | 7 | 386 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Oregon | Division I | 7 | 245 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Division I | 6 | 373 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers University | Division I | 5 | 382 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Division I | 5 | 383 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Iowa | Division I | 3 | 302 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Southern California | Division I | 3 | 330 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northwestern University | Division I | 1 | 302 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ticketing is the buying group for ticketing platforms, mobile ticketing, box-office hardware, secondary-market and season-ticket CRM vendors. Typical titles in this group: Director of Ticket Operations; Assistant AD for Ticket Sales & Service; Box Office Manager; Ticket Sales Account Executive. Whistle customers filter these positions by conference, school, state and sport, see each person's name, title and contact details where the directory publishes them, and get an alert when one of the positions changes hands.
Positions are counted when the published job title matches the ticketing pattern (and not an exclusion such as student, intern or graduate assistant); the same rule produces the counts and the change tallies.
Change counts compare successive reads of each school's official directory; a school's first extraction and any day on which 25% or more of a roster appears or disappears at once (a re-read, not turnover) are excluded. This page is published when at least 3 covered Big Ten schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
152 current positions across 18 covered Big Ten athletic departments as of 3 Nov 2026; The Ohio State University lists the most (18).
The Ohio State University, with 18 ticketing staff positions out of 634 tracked positions.
15 changes in the last 90 days: 5 hires, 9 departures, 1 title change, after excluding first reads and same-day re-reads.
From the staff directories athletic departments publish on their official websites, read automatically on a rolling schedule (NCAA Division I roughly weekly, Division II and III every three to four weeks). Whistle never publishes names, emails or phone numbers on public pages; staff can remove their details at any time at gowhistle.io/remove-my-info.