Published: January 30, 2026 | Eric Van Dril, Founder/CEO, ContactCollegeCoaches.com
If you’re a student-athlete trying to get recruited, there’s one thing that can quietly derail your outreach faster than anything else: sending emails to college coaches who are no longer there. On January 30, 2026, we released our latest college coach contact database update — and the numbers tell a clear story about just how fast the coaching landscape moves.
This update includes 5,802 total changes across all sports. That’s not a typo. Nearly six thousand coaching staff changes since our last update, including 2,153 coaches removed from the database and 2,190 completely new coaching entries added. The remaining changes reflect updated titles, email addresses, and other contact corrections.
When nearly 75% of changes involve coaches leaving or arriving at programs, it’s a reminder that the college coaching world never sits still — and neither should your recruiting contact list.
College Football Coaching Turnover Drives Record Changes
Among all sports in our database, college football stands out by a wide margin. The football database alone accounted for 2,032 of the 5,802 total changes — more than a third of every update we made across all sports combined.
Within football, 879 coaches were removed and 587 completely new coaches were added. The rest of the football changes include updated email addresses, title changes, and other corrections to existing records. We also cleaned up coaches’ individual X accounts.
Why does football see so much turnover? College football programs carry the largest coaching staffs in college athletics. When a head coach is fired or hired, it often triggers a full staff overhaul — offensive coordinators, defensive coordinators, position coaches, recruiting coordinators, and support staff can all change at once. The 2025–2026 college football coaching carousel has been one of the most active in recent memory, with major Power 4 programs making sweeping changes that ripple through every level of the sport.
For football recruits, this means the coach you emailed last month may already be gone — replaced by someone new who doesn’t know your name yet.
Why Accurate College Coach Contact Information Matters for Recruiting
Every recruiting email that bounces or reaches a former coach is a missed connection. It’s not just wasted effort — it’s a lost opportunity to introduce yourself to the coach who is currently building a roster and evaluating prospects.
College coaches receive hundreds of recruiting emails. When yours arrives with the right name, the right title, and the right email address, it signals that you’ve done your homework. That first impression matters, especially at programs where new coaching staffs are actively looking for athletes to fill their vision for the program.
Our databases are designed to solve this exact problem. We track coaching changes across every NCAA and NAIA program so that when you sit down to send recruiting emails, you’re reaching the right people at the right schools.
How Often Do College Coaching Databases Need to Be Updated?
Based on the volume of changes we see in every update cycle, the answer is: constantly. With 5,802 changes in a single release, information goes stale quickly. Published directories and static lists can’t keep pace with the rate of turnover in college athletics — especially in football, where more than 2,000 changes occurred in this cycle alone.
That’s why our subscribers receive regularly updated databases rather than a one-time download. The recruiting process is time-sensitive, and having current contact information gives you a real competitive advantage over other recruits who may be working from outdated lists.
Get the Latest College Coach Contact Database
The January 30, 2026 update is already in the hands of our subscribers. If you’re not using our college coach contact databases yet, now is the perfect time to start. With nearly 6,000 changes in a single update, the question isn’t whether your contact information is outdated — it’s how outdated it is.
Visit ContactCollegeCoaches.com to get the most current college coach emails and start reaching the right coaches today.