Southland athletic departments list 11 equipment staff positions across 10 of the 11 covered schools as of 3 Nov 2026 — 1% of the conference's 1,111 tracked positions, an average of 1.1 per department that has the function. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has the most (2). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 1 hire, 0 departures and 0 title changes in these roles.
Data as of 3 Nov 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 11 covered Southland 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 equipment; 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 | Equipment positions | All tracked positions | Hires (90d) | Departures (90d) | Title changes (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | Division I | 2 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Houston Christian University | Division I | 1 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lamar University | Division I | 1 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| McNeese State University | Division I | 1 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nicholls State University | Division I | 1 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northwestern State University | Division I | 1 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Southeastern Louisiana University | Division I | 1 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stephen F. Austin State University | Division I | 1 | 130 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of New Orleans | Division I | 1 | 54 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| University of the Incarnate Word | Division I | 1 | 123 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | Division I | 0 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Equipment is the buying group for apparel and footwear brands, protective equipment, laundry and inventory systems, team-store and licensing vendors. Typical titles in this group: Director of Equipment Operations; Equipment Manager, Football; Assistant Equipment 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 from each person's published job title, classified into Whistle's role vocabulary (shared/staff-roles.ts); this group is the "equipment" role.
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 Southland schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
11 current positions across 10 covered Southland athletic departments as of 3 Nov 2026; University of Texas Rio Grande Valley lists the most (2).
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, with 2 equipment staff positions out of 121 tracked positions.
1 change in the last 90 days: 1 hire, 0 departures, 0 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.