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    January 2026 college coaches database update infographic showing 5,754 total changes, 2,616 added, and 1,991 removed across 30+ sports
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    January 2026 College Coaches Database Update: 5,754 Changes Across All Sports

    Our college coaches database gets a full update every month — verifying contacts, tracking staff movements, and making sure the information you’re using to reach out to programs is as accurate as possible. Here’s a complete breakdown of what changed in our January 2026 update. A quick note: this update Read more

    By Eric Van Dril, 4 weeks ago March 5, 2026
    From JUCO to Stardom: 15 Famous Athletes Who Launched Their Careers at Junior College — featuring Rodgers, Harper, Butler, Pujols, Newton, Swoopes, and more
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    From JUCO to Stardom: 15 Famous Athletes Who Launched Their Careers at Junior College

    If you think the only path to professional sports runs through big-name Division I programs, think again. Some of the most iconic athletes of the last two decades got their start at two-year junior college (JUCO) programs — small schools with modest budgets, limited media coverage, and stadiums that seat Read more

    By Eric Van Dril, 1 month ago February 18, 2026
    Chart showing 5,802 college coaching database changes in January 2026 with football accounting for 2,032.
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    5,802 College Coaching Changes in Our January 2026 Database Update

    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 Read more

    By Eric Van Dril, 2 months ago February 18, 2026
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    November 2025 update: 5,981 total changes made

    The latest update (technically November’s) was completed on Jan. 4th, and sent out to our customers via email. It included 5,981 total changes. There were 2,419 people newly added to their program, 2,375 people removed — and another 1,187 who had at least one piece of information change. Of those Read more

    By Eric Van Dril, 3 months ago January 7, 2026
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    October 2025 update: Landing Pages, Questionnaires cleaned up

    This month, we made a significant upgrade to our databases. I had our data team go through all of the landing pages and questionnaires in our databases to check them, clean them and look to fill any missing data. It took nearly a month for them to work on this Read more

    By Eric Van Dril, 4 months ago December 5, 2025
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    September 2025 update: All-time record 22,590 total changes

    This time of the year has always been the busiest for coaching turnover with school back in session and sports-information departments updating their schools’ coaching staffs online. But this month was on another level. The September 2025 update was an all-time record for total number of changes with a whopping Read more

    By Eric Van Dril, 5 months ago October 24, 2025
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    July/August update: 10,575 total changes made

    Another month, another massive update has been completed. There were a total of 10,575 total changes made in the July/August update across all of the sports offered by Contact College Coaches. This was the biggest update thus far in 2025. More than 10% of the people listed in our databases Read more

    By Eric Van Dril, 7 months ago August 25, 2025
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    June 2025 update: 9,029 total changes to the coaches databases

    There were a massive number of changes in the June update to the Contact College Coaches databases. A whopping 4,615 people were removed. There were 2,577 people newly added — and 1,837 had some other piece of information altered, while remaining at the program where they coached. That equates to Read more

    By Eric Van Dril, 8 months ago July 21, 2025
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    March 2025 update: 5,100+ total changes, 1,535 in the football database

    The March 2025 update was a reasonably-busy one, with massive amounts of coaching-staff turnover in college football — and the coaching carousel picking up full steam as the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments unfolded. There were a total of 5,152 changes this month across all of the sports we Read more

    By Eric Van Dril, 12 months ago April 14, 2025
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    February 2025 update: Saint Katherine closes, Texas A&M-Commerce rebrands, Union Commonwealth University, Saint Francis moves to DIII

    A few updates on changes made to specific schools before we provide a breakdown of the 6,015 total changes that were made during the February 2025 update. The University of Saint Katherine, an NAIA program in California, has been removed from our databases because the school has closed. Texas A&M-Commerce Read more

    By Eric Van Dril, 1 year ago March 27, 2025

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