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The top ten trending jobs of the week...
#10: North Georgia: IPP Strength and Conditioning Program Specialist
#9: Quincy: Assistant Softball Coach
#8: North Georgia: Director of Sports Performance
#7: Fort Hays State: Athletic Event & Facility Operations Specialist
#6: Pennwest California: Part-Time Assistant Swim Coach
#5: Cal State San Marcos: Deputy AD/Title IX Coordinator
#4: Illinois Springfield: Athletics Business Associate
#3: Roberts Wesleyan: Head Men's & Women's Swimming and Diving Coach
#2: Kutztown: Coordinator of Internal Operations
#1: Fort Hays State: Internal Operations/Facilities and Event Management Graduate Assistant
#10: Mansfield AD Andrew Petko chatted with Redshirt Sports’ Omar-Rashon Borja to discuss differentiating the Mounties in the PSAC, sprint football and more. Here are some of his most notable comments…
➤ Petko says Mansfield has no plans to elevate its 70-man sprint football program to a DII program, adding: “One of the recruiting tools we have is you get to immediately play even if you're a freshman, just an opportunity to jump out there. And some student athletes play on both of the sides of the ball and get an opportunity to make an impact on offense and defense. So it's one of the positives that come out of it. It's really economical as well. … We don't start practice until after school starts at the sprint level. We don't have to bring them in early and house them and feed them. So it's really economical. It's non-scholarship, and staffs are very limited. We have one paid head coach. That's very similar across the board in the CSFL, so it's very economical.”
➤ On differentiation within the PSAC and Commonwealth University: “Sprint football definitely does help. We're the only public institution in the CSFL, so it's one of the things that really makes us different. We also don't have large rosters, so that's really impactful. So, student-athletes come here and make an immediate impact. Not a lot of our student-athletes redshirt; they get to immediately make an impact and start playing right away. … Our student-athletes see that all of our coaches get together. Our student athletes play on multiple different teams. A lot of our student-athletes run track or compete in a track and field program. That and they might play in field hockey or women's basketball. So I think it's a really big benefit. You don't see that a ton of schools that I've seen at least the Division II [level].” (link)
#9: Tusculum is the latest to add women’s flag football starting in 2027-28. (link)
#8: Gannon President Walter Iwanenko stepped down last week after three years in the position. President Emeritus Keith Taylor will serve as Interim President. (link)
#7: Tampa announces a number of facility upgrades: a new Daktronics videoboard at Bob Martinez Athletics Center gym, a new six-hole, on-campus, synthetic turf short-game facility, relocated benches at Pepin Stadium that will now be underneath the grandstands’ overhang and expanded dugouts at Naimoli Family Softball Field. AD E.J. Brophy: “You can get better, or you can get worse, but you can't stay the same. These facility enhancements are huge additions to our athletic department and we greatly appreciate our upper level administration, especially our fantastic facilities department, for making these aspirations become reality.” (link)
#6: During this week’s MIAA Basketball Media Day, Commissioner Mike Racy expressed his support for potential changes to the championship bracketing model for basketball that would move from eight-team regional tournaments to four-team regional tournaments and protect the top eight NPI-ranked teams in their own bracket. “The smaller, four-team pods provide more opportunities for teams to host regional tournaments. And we’ve been asking for a long time, the idea of moving teams out of regions if it would create top team matchups early in the tournament.” Racy also supported the implementation of a 15-day basketball transfer portal window. (link)
#5: Lynn saw a 34% increase in the number of student-athletes, with 143 new student-athletes this academic year. (link)
#4: Former DII member Cheyney has announced its plans to rejoin the NCAA as the university has broken ground on a $36.5M, 50K square-foot athletic complex that would include a 2,500-seat arena, track and soccer field. University officials hope to rejoin the association before the facility opens in fall 2028. (link)
#3: A video of a Winston-Salem State staff member painting yard markers on the field at Bowman Gray Stadium went viral this week. AD Eric Burns tells HBCU Gameday’s Steven J. Gaither the Rams have hired an outside company to handle painting the field moving forward. Burns’ official statement: “The field markings at our last home game fell short of WSSU athletics’ standards, and I take responsibility. We’ve secured additional field preparation support and implemented new checks to ensure this is addressed before our next home game. Our student-athletes and Ram Nation deserve the highest standard, and we are committed to meeting it every time.” (link, link)
#2: Extra Points’ Matt Brown put together an expense comparison for over 100 public DII schools from FY25 MFRS data, with Grand Valley State leading the cohort with a $26M in operating expenses and College of Staten Island rounding out the group at $2.24M. For leagues with at least four schools reporting data, the GLIAC had the highest median at $14M, followed by the GNAC, MIAA, PSAC and CCAA. Overall, the median athletic department expense was MSU Denver at $8.53M, with the 10th percentile spend totaling $15.3M. Looking at ticket sales revenue, the top five were all schools with DI hockey programs. Brown: “If we remove the D-I hockey programs, the top D-II programs are generating in the $300,000 to $800,000 range for total ticket sales, primarily from football.” (link)
