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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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
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.
January 1, 2019
2018-19 coaching carousel
Get up to date on all of the offseason head coaching moves, with surprise departures and jobs changing hands.
January 2, 2018
2017-18 coaching carousel
Get up to date on all of the offseason head coaching moves, with surprise departures and jobs changing hands.