This week in college athletics staffing

In the seven days to 4 Nov 2026 Whistle detected 510 athletics staff changes at 193 NCAA schools: 218 hires, 155 departures and 137 title changes, most in the Big Ten (59); among sport-specific titles Football moved most (40). 21 head-coach and 2 athletic-director changes are listed by name below.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Source: successive reads of official NCAA athletics staff directories by Whistle, 28 Oct 2026 – 4 Nov 2026. Download this week's named changes as CSV · Monthly history.

Which head coaches and athletic directors changed this week?

23 changes at head-coach or athletic-director level between 28 Oct 2026 – 4 Nov 2026: 21 head coaches and 2 athletic directors. Hires and departures are read off the school's directory; a title change is the same person with a new published title. Dates are when Whistle detected the change, not when it was announced.

Whistle names people on this page only when the position is the head coach of a program or the school's athletic director (director of athletics / vice president for athletics). Deputy, associate and assistant ADs, assistant coaches and every other role appear in the counts only. Names, titles and dates come from the school's own published directory; no emails, phone numbers or photos are shown. Anyone can have their details removed at gowhistle.io/remove-my-info.

How many athletics staff changed by conference?

How many changed by division?

Which sports saw staff changes?

Changes where the person's title names a sport. Titles without one (athletic directors, trainers covering several teams, business staff) are counted above but not here.

Which roles changed?

Football coaching carousel: how many head coaches have changed?

Opens 20 Nov 2026. The last window ran 20 Nov 2025 – 31 Jan 2026; the counts below cover it. The tracker counts head-coach hires, departures and title changes whose title names football, with the same filters as the weekly list.

No football head-coach changes cleared the filters in this window (Whistle's change tracking may not have covered the whole window).

Basketball coaching carousel: how many head coaches have changed?

Opens 10 Mar 2027. The last window ran 10 Mar 2026 – 30 Apr 2026; the counts below cover it. The tracker counts head-coach hires, departures and title changes whose title names basketball (men's or women's), with the same filters as the weekly list.

No basketball head-coach changes cleared the filters in this window (Whistle's change tracking may not have covered the whole window).

Method

Counts compare successive reads of each school's official athletics staff directory (Division I roughly weekly, Divisions II and III every three to four weeks; faster during the coaching carousel). A school's first read, any read that re-lists 15% or more of a roster, and any school-day whose hires or departures reach 25% of the roster are treated as coverage changes, not turnover, and excluded. Title changes that only differ in wording, abbreviation or a sport assignment are excluded. The page is rebuilt from live data at least every ten minutes and the window is the last 7 days.

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