2023-24 coaching carousel

July 16, 2024 Southwestern's founding coach steps down When Southwestern restarted football after a 62-year hiatus, it chose Joe Austin to do so. Now after 11 seasons as the head coach of the Pirates, Austin is stepping down.

July 13, 2024 Quiet coaching change in Chicago Last fall, three assistant coaches silently left the University of Chicago, and this past week, their head coach slipped out the door without an announcement either. Todd Gilcrist is out after two seasons as the Maroons head coach.

July 12, 2024 Zagorski leaving coaching to focus on health Otterbein's Tommy Zagorski is putting his health ahead of his job and is stepping aside as head coach of the Cardinals.

June 26, 2024 Ruley heads home to Rowan Pat Ruley, the defensive coordinator at Susquehanna, will become just the eighth football head coach in the history of the Rowan program, as he takes over the Profs for the fall.

April 12, 2024 Accorsi retires as Rowan head coach Jay Accorsi, the all-time leader in football coaching wins at Rowan, has announced his retirement after 22 years as head coach of the Profs.

February 22, 2024 King's coach returns to alma mater Skyler Fultz, head coach at King's this past season and a 2011 graduate of McDaniel, will return to McDaniel as head coach.

January 10, 2024 Greco out at Delaware Valley Duke Greco, head coach at his alma mater for the past 10 seasons, is leaving to take the head coaching job at Division II West Chester.

January 9, 2024 Bethel promotes Johnson's assistant Mike McElroy, Bethel's defensive coordinator since 2017, will be the Royals' next head coach. He replaces Steve Johnson, who retired after 35 seasons at the helm.

January 5, 2024 Carthage tabs Endicott assistant Matt Popino, who was the coordinator of the vaunted Endicott defense over the past three seasons, gets his first head coaching job.

January 4, 2024 Johns Hopkins coach moving on Greg Chimera, who succeeded longtime coach Jim Margraff as head coach at Johns Hopkins over the past five seasons, will be taking the offensive coordinator job at Penn.

December 31, 2023 Belhaven announces Nightingale as head coach Belhaven is excited to welcome CJ Nightingale as the eighth head football coach in program history after the Blazers' first trip to the Division III playoffs.

December 29, 2023 Drach named head coach at Union Jon Drach, who has been head coach at Wilkes since 2018, is moving just a little bit north and will be Union's third coach in three years.

December 11, 2023 Ohio Northern has new coach Rose-Hulman offensive coordinator Andy Fries follows Dean Paul as head coach of the Polar Bears.

December 7, 2023 Hampden-Sydney has its new coach Washington & Jefferson defensive coordinator Vince Luvara will follow Marty Favret, the winningest coach in Hampden-Sydney football history.

November 28, 2023 McCorkle leaves for Northwestern State Blaine McCorkle, who led Belhaven through its transition from the NAIA to Division III, to the USA South, and to the D-III playoffs, is taking on the challenge of Northwestern State, which lost its coach and canceled the end of its season after the killing of a player.

November 22, 2023 Roanoke hires first coach The Maroons have their first football coach -- since 1942 at least. Bryan Stinespring makes a short trip down I-81 to come to Roanoke, and just in time for the college's hometown to host the Stagg Bowl.

November 17, 2023 Adrian hires local high school coach After letting Jim Deere go midseason, Adrian found its next coach less than 30 miles away.

November 14, 2023 Carthage coach resigns Dustin Hass spent six seasons with the Firebirds and compiled a 19-33 record.

November 14, 2023 Paul leaves Ohio Northern Ohio Northern has announced that long-time head football coach Dean Paul will be leaving his position now that the 2023 season has concluded.

November 14, 2023 Dubuque announces retirement of Zweifel Stan Zweifel, one of the most successful head football coaches in the history of the University of Dubuque, is hanging it up.

November 6, 2023 Welty retires from Westminster (Mo.) John Welty was head coach of the Blue Jays for 24 seasons, from the Scott Pingel era to today.

October 30, 2023 D-III's active wins leader to retire Steve Johnson, head football coach at Bethel for 34 seasons, has announced that this will be his last. The announcement comes on the heels of him winning his 250th career game, tops among active D-III football coaches.

October 17, 2023 Adrian changes coaches midseason At 1-6 on the season, Adrian accepted the resignation of coach Jim Deere, who has been coaching the Bulldogs for 14 seasons. That included trips to the playoffs in 2012 and 2014.

September 8, 2023 Willamette coach out after opening week Isaac Parker, who has been head coach of Willamette since the 2019 season, is at his alma mater no longer.

August 21, 2023 Favret says 2023 season will be his last The winningest coach in Hampden-Sydney football history, Marty Favret has announced that the 2023 season will be his last on the Tigers sidelines.