The 2024 Offseason Coaching Carousel (8/14/2024)

The Olympic Games have wrapped up so it’s time to dive back into the college game! Yesterday, we received a nudge in that direction with the announcement that Davidson is hiring a pair of assistant coaches. John Stutzman and Alan Clothier, formerly of the Buffalo coaching staff, will head south to bring plenty of experience to Nate Carr Jr’s team. 

Editor's Note: On 8/16, Bloomsburg annouced that they have hired Stutzman to fill their head coaching position. 

Stutzman spent 10 years leading his alma mater Buffalo. Before taking the Buffalo job, Stutzman made his mark by turning a seemingly undermanned Bloomsburg team into a nationally ranked squad that produced three All-Americans and wrestled to a 97-56-1 dual record. At Buffalo, Stutzman’s teams recorded an 89-109 record and he sent 25 wrestlers to the NCAA Tournament. As recently as 2018-19, Stutzman was named MAC Coach of the Year after producing six national qualifiers and two conference champions. 

Clothier was a four-time national qualifier who started his career at Appalachian State before ending at Northern Colorado in 2021-22. Clothier’s best season came in 2021 when he was fourth in the Big 12, the #18 seed at nationals and wrestled to a 1-2 finish in St. Louis. 

After wrapping up his competitive career, Clothier immediately jumped into the coaching ranks. He served as a volunteer assistant for a year at Buffalo before becoming a full-time assistant prior to the 2023-24 season. 

There are plenty of coaching hires that should be made public soon. Rutgers has a hire that was a badly-kept secret but not officially announced by the school. Campbell and Drexel should be ready to announce assistant coaching hires soon, as well. 

With the preseason rapidly approaching and the number of vacancies quickly shrinking, we may be coming to the end of the 2024 coaching carousel - that is unless we get some unexpected late movement like last year. 
 

Offseason Coaching Movement

Air Force: Elroy Perkin (California Baptist Assistant Coach)

Appalachian State: Paul Bianchi (Minnesota State Assistant Coach)

Appalachian State: Max Maylor (Wisconsin athlete)

Army West Point: Taylor LaMont (USAW athlete)

Binghamton: Louie DePrez - Assistant Coach (Binghamton athlete)

Binghamton: Sam Schuyler - Assistant Coach (Iowa State Graduate Assistant)

Brown: Micky Phillippi - Assistant Coach (Brown Director of Ops)

Bucknell: Dan Neff - Assistant Coach (Navy Assistant Coach)

Buffalo: Donnie Vinson - Head Coach (Cornell Associate Head Coach)

Buffalo: Andrew Dunn - Assistant Coach (North Carolina Director of Operations)

Buffalo: Hunter Richard - Assistant Coach (Appalachian State Assistant Coach)

Campbell: TJ Dudley - Assistant Coach (Brown Assistant Coach)

Central Michigan: Ben Bennett (Central Michigan Associate Head Coach)

Columbia: Donny Pritzlaff (Rutgers Associate Head Coach)

Cornell: Scottie Boykin (Air Force Assistant Coach)

Cornell: David McFadden (Drexel Assistant Coach)

Davidson: Alan Clothier - Assistant Coach (Buffalo Assistant Coach)

Davidson: John Stutzman - Associate Head Coach (Buffalo Head Coach)

Edinboro: AJ Schopp - Head Assistant Coach (Purdue Assistant Coach)

Gardner-Webb: Keaton Kluever - Assistant Coach (Hofstra athlete)

George Mason: Dean Heil - Head Assistant Coach

Hofstra: Jamie Franco - Head Coach (Columbia Assistant Coach)

Lock Haven: Gavin Hoffman - Volunteer Assistant (Ohio State athlete)

Maryland: Ethan Laird - Assistant Coach (DMV RTC athlete)

Navy: Barry Davis - Assistant Coach

Navy: Ty Eustice - Assistant Coach (Davidson Assistant Coach)

NC State: Zack Esposito - Associate Head Coach (USOPTC) 

North Dakota State: Matt Malcom - Assistant Coach (Bellevue East HS)

North Dakota State: Scott Mattingly - Head Assistant Coach (Gardner-Webb Associate Head Coach)

Northern Illinois: McGwire Midkiff - Assistant Coach

Oklahoma State: David Taylor - Head Coach (NLWC Athlete)

Oklahoma State: Thomas Gilman - Assistant Coach (NLWC Athlete)

Oklahoma State: Jimmy Kennedy - Associate Head Coach (Penn State Assistant Coach)

Penn: Matt Valenti - Associate Head Coach (Penn athletic administration)

Penn: Doug Zapf - Assistant Coach (PRTC athlete)

Penn State: Nick Lee - Assistant Coach (NLWC athlete)

Pittsburgh: Lou Rosselli - Assistant Coach

Princeton: Anthony Ashnault - Assistant Coach (NYC RTC athlete)

Princeton: Cody Brewer - Head Assistant Coach (Virginia Tech Assistant Coach)

Princeton: Nate Jackson (NJ RTC athlete)

SIU Edwardsville: Austin Murphy - Graduate Assistant (Campbell athlete)

Stanford: Hayden Hidlay (North Dakota State Assistant Coach)

Utah Valley: Adam Hall - Head Coach (NC State Associate Head Coach)

Utah Valley: Andrew Hochstrasser - Assistant Coach (Utah Club Coach)

Utah Valley: Joey Lavallee - Assistant Coach (LWVC RTC athlete)

Utah Valley: Timmy McCall - Assistant Coach

Virginia Tech: Zach Tanelli - Associate Head Coach (Columbia Head Coach)

Wisconsin: Tony Cassioppi - Assistant Coach (HWC athlete)

Non-Coaching Roles

Maryland: Cole Matthews - Special Assistant to the Head Coach

Navy: Ben Barton - Director of Operations

North Carolina: Vincenzo Joseph - Recruiting Coordinator (SKWC Athlete)

Oklahoma: Mark Hall - Director of Operations (Penn Assistant Coach)

Oklahoma State: Bryan Pearsall - Recruiting Coordinator (Penn Associate Head Coach)
 

RTC’s and Wrestling Clubs

Navy WC: Peyton Walsh

Ohio RTC: Kollin Moore (Ohio RTC Athlete)

Ohio RTC: Coleman Scott (Oklahoma State Associate Head Coac)
 

Current Openings

Bloomsburg: Head Coach

California Baptist: Assistant Coach

Campbell: Assistant Coach

Central Michigan: Assistant Coach

Columbia: Assistant Coach

Drexel: Assistant Coach (x2)

George Mason: Assistant Coach

Oregon State: Director of Operations

Penn: Assistant Coach

Purdue: Assistant Coach