SWAC athletic departments list 15 facilities and event-operations staff positions across 7 of the 12 covered schools as of 2 Nov 2026 — 2% of the conference's 958 tracked positions, an average of 2.1 per department that has the function. Jackson State University has the most (5). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 2 hires, 2 departures and 0 title changes in these roles.
Data as of 2 Nov 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 12 covered SWAC 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson State University | Division I | 5 | 73 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Southern University | Division I | 4 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida A&M University | Division I | 2 | 98 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Bethune-Cookman University | Division I | 1 | 76 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Prairie View A&M University | Division I | 1 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas Southern University | Division I | 1 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff | Division I | 1 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Alabama A&M University | Division I | 0 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Alabama State University | Division I | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Alcorn State University | Division I | 0 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grambling State University | Division I | 0 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mississippi Valley State University | Division I | 0 | 40 | 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 SWAC schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
15 current positions across 7 covered SWAC athletic departments as of 2 Nov 2026; Jackson State University lists the most (5).
Jackson State University, with 5 facilities and event-operations staff positions out of 73 tracked positions.
4 changes in the last 90 days: 2 hires, 2 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.