SEC athletic departments list 314 facilities and event-operations staff positions across 16 of the 16 covered schools as of 3 Nov 2026 — 5% of the conference's 5,764 tracked positions, an average of 19.6 per department that has the function. University of Tennessee has the most (37). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 7 hires, 11 departures and 6 title changes in these roles.
Data as of 3 Nov 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 16 covered SEC 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 facilities & event operations; 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 | Facilities & event operations positions | All tracked positions | Hires (90d) | Departures (90d) | Title changes (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Tennessee | Division I | 37 | 456 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| University of South Carolina | Division I | 29 | 338 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Auburn University | Division I | 28 | 414 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Florida | Division I | 26 | 472 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Mississippi State University | Division I | 25 | 311 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| University of Georgia | Division I | 24 | 404 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Texas at Austin | Division I | 23 | 411 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| University of Oklahoma | Division I | 20 | 373 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| University of Missouri | Division I | 19 | 326 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Texas A&M University | Division I | 18 | 369 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Arkansas | Division I | 15 | 250 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| University of Alabama | Division I | 13 | 399 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Mississippi | Division I | 12 | 321 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Louisiana State University | Division I | 11 | 378 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vanderbilt University | Division I | 9 | 267 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Kentucky | Division I | 5 | 275 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Facilities & event operations is the buying group for turf, lighting, scoreboard and AV vendors, event-staffing and security providers, facility-management and scheduling software. Typical titles in this group: Director of Athletic Facilities; Assistant AD for Event Management; Game Operations Coordinator; Grounds Manager. 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 facilities & event operations 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 SEC schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
314 current positions across 16 covered SEC athletic departments as of 3 Nov 2026; University of Tennessee lists the most (37).
University of Tennessee, with 37 facilities and event-operations staff positions out of 456 tracked positions.
24 changes in the last 90 days: 7 hires, 11 departures, 6 title changes, 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.