2021-22 coaching carousel

June 26, 2022 Defiance assistant gets promoted Bill Nickell, who joined the Defiance football staff in February as an assistant coach, was promoted to head coach and will be the Yellow Jackets' fifth coach in seven seasons.

May 6, 2022 Defiance coaching job turns over again Earnest Wilson, who spent the 2021 season as Defiance's interim coach, then had the interim tag removed this offseason, will instead move on.

April 25, 2022 New coach at Martin Luther Paul Huebner followed Mark Stein as a high school head coach in Wisconsin, and he'll do it again, now as head coach at Martin Luther.

April 25, 2022 UW-Stevens Point finds its new coach at Oshkosh After 19 years at UW-Oshkosh and six years as the program's offensive coordinator, Luke Venne will move a hour or so west to be the head coach at UW-Stevens Point.

April 5, 2022 Gilcrist named Chicago head coach Todd Gilcrist, a former player at Pitt and Duquesne, and an assistant coach at Holy Cross and Columbia, is now a Division III head coach.

March 18, 2022 Randolph-Macon assistant comes to Macalester Phil Nicolaides, who has been the defensive coordinator for Randolph-Macon for the past six seasons, comes west to Minnesota to be head coach at Macalester.

March 14, 2022 Finotti steps down from John Carroll After five seasons and a 33-11 record, Rick Finotti is leaving John Carroll. The Blue Streaks were 7-3 last season, 7-2 in the Ohio Athletic Conference.

March 10, 2022 Breitbach steps down at UW-Stevens Point After nine wins in four years, three seasons, Greg Breitbach is out as head coach at UW-Stevens Point.

March 1, 2022 Jennings moves north to Oshkosh Peter Jennings, the offensive coordinator for UW-Whitewater, will move on up the highway to UW-Oshkosh, where he'll be the Titans' new head coach.

February 23, 2022 Wooster assistant hired at Thiel Sam Bauman, who has been the defensive coordinator at Wooster for the past seven seasons, will take a crack at turning Thiel around.

February 18, 2022 Former DC returns as Ithaca head coach After a national search, Ithaca is thrilled to announce that Michael Toerper has been named as the next head coach of the Ithaca football program. A former defensive coordinator for the Bombers, Toerper has been an assistant coach at Holy Cross.

February 16, 2022 Blumenauer takes reins at Franklin & Marshall Williams offensive coordinator Tom Blumenauer gets his first head coaching job, taking over for the Diplomats.

February 16, 2022 Matt retires at TLU Ricky Matt, who was head coach for two seasons of Texas Lutheran football all in the span of one calendar year, is retiring, and an old assistant coach is coming back to take over.

February 15, 2022 Robinson new head coach at Bethany Brandon Robinson, a former assistant coach at Baldwin Wallace, heads to West Virginia's only Division III school.

February 8, 2022 Wesleyan alum, assistant, move to Bates After five seasons as defensive coordinator at Wesleyan, his alma mater, Matt Coyne becomes the head coach at Bates, where he is the fourth head coach in the past five seasons.

February 7, 2022 Munz named UW-Platteville coach PLATTEVILLE, Wis. - Ryan Munz has been named the 16th head football coach in University of Wisconsin-Platteville history, as announced today by Director of Athletics and Recreation and Assistant Chancellor for Sports Administration Dr. Kristina Navarro.

February 4, 2022 Jay Locey retires With the retirement of Pete Fredenburg at Mary Hardin-Baylor and the departure of Jeff Thorne from North Central, there was just one remaining head coach in Division III who had ever coached a team to a Stagg Bowl win. Now Jay Locey, too, is retiring.

February 3, 2022 Larsen named football coach at Carnegie Mellon Following an extensive national search, Carnegie Mellon has named Ryan Larsen as its new head football coach. A 13-year coaching veteran, Larsen comes to Carnegie Mellon from Columbia, where he served as quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator for the past three years.

January 31, 2022 Mulrooney goes to D2; Croce tabbed at Anna Maria Dan Mulrooney, who led Anna Maria from a program that had never won more than two games to one that could make the NCAA playoffs, left for Division II Lock Haven. Steve Croce, his assistant, was promoted to take his place.

January 27, 2022 Robertson out after one season at FDU After two years, one actual season and seven victories as head coach at FDU-Florham, Jimmy Robertson is moving on.

January 26, 2022 Thorne out as coach at North Central North Central joins Mary Hardin-Baylor as Stagg Bowl teams which will have new coaches next season, as the school announced Brad Spencer as its new head football coach, with Jeff Thorne heading to D-I Western Michigan.

January 26, 2022 Wilkerson gets FCS head coaching spot After nine years as head coach at the University of Chicago, Chris Wilkerson got the call on Wednesday to return to his alma mater as head coach and will be taking the top spot at Division I FCS Eastern Illinois.

January 24, 2022 Former Wesley assistant hired at Alvernia Steve Azzanesi, a former longtime assistant under Mike Drass at Wesley, is getting the call as the second head coach in Alvernia football history.

January 24, 2022 Swanstrom returns to Penn Dan Swanstrom, the head coach of the Ithaca football program for the past five years, has announced that he will be returning to the University of Pennsylvania to serve as the offensive coordinator for the Quakers.

January 21, 2022 Alumnus returns as Dean head coach Andrae Murphy, who played for Dean College when it was a two-year school, is coming to take over as head coach after five years as an assistant coach at Columbia.

January 21, 2022 Morgan named Buff State head coach Buffalo State has appointed Lazarus Morgan as the sixth head coach in the history of the Bengal football program, athletic director Renee Carlineo announced.

January 7, 2022 Fred calls it a career Pete Fredenburg, the only head football coach Mary Hardin-Baylor has ever had, has announced his retirement after hoisting the Walnut and Bronze for a third time.

December 23, 2021 Kenyon promotes assistant With James Rosenbury out after three years, Ian Good, the Lords' defensive coordinator, will take over the top spot at Kenyon.

December 14, 2021 Troxell leaves F&M for Lafayette job John Troxell, a Lafayette graduate, is leaving Franklin & Marshall after 15 seasons to become his alma mater's head coach.

December 14, 2021 Luther hires St. Olaf assistant The Norse, looking for their first win since 2019, tabbed Oles defensive coordinator Joe Troche.

December 9, 2021 Rockford promotes Toliver to head football coach ROCKFORD, Ill. - The Rockford University athletic department is thrilled to announce the promotion of Offensive Coordinator Calvin Toliver to the position of head football coach effective immediately.

December 8, 2021 Crowley promoted at CNU Paul Crowley, a former player at Christopher Newport and current offensive line coach, is getting promoted following the departure of Art Link.

November 29, 2021 Cerroni retires at Oshkosh After 15 seasons and a 109-45 record, the coach who led UW-Oshkosh football to national prominence will no longer be on the Titans sidelines.

November 24, 2021 Croall to follow Toop at Merchant Marine Longtime assistant Jameson Croall will take over at Merchant Marine for longtime head coach Mike Toop, who announced his retirement earlier in November.

November 23, 2021 Collins comes home to D-III Jim Collins, a Wittenberg alumnus who coached Capital to prominence in the late '00s, will be returning to Division III to coach his alma mater.

November 23, 2021 Emendorfer retires as Platteville's all-time wins leader Mike Emendorfer has coached UW-Platteville ever since the founding of D3football.com, and we'll have to change the team page for the first time as he announces his retirement.

November 23, 2021 Krepps out at Bluffton After four seasons, including back-to-back four-win campaigns, Bluffton is choosing to move on.

November 22, 2021 Fincham announces retirement from Wittenberg After 25 seasons, Joe Fincham, who currently is 10th among active Division III football coaches in career wins, is calling it a career at Wittenberg, and his replacement is a storied former Division III coach as well.

November 10, 2021 Hilbert hires first football coach The newest Division III program will be entering with a football coach coming from Division II and the pro ranks.

November 8, 2021 Link cut loose at Christopher Newport A 5-5 season wasn't enough for CNU to retain Art Link, whose teams had gone 2-10 in 2019-20 and 2020-21.

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