Austin Van Poucke (rhymes with “BOOK”) is in his first season as Purdue Football's director of operations. Van Poucke served as UNLV’s director of football operations for two years under Barry Odom (2023-24), joining the head coach in the move to Purdue.
Before going out west, he was the director of operations for the Yale football program during the 2022 campaign. Van Poucke got his start in football operations by serving as a football operations graduate assistant at Arkansas for three seasons (2019-21). He moved to that position after working the previous two years as a football recruiting assistant for the Razorbacks.
Van Poucke earned his bachelor’s degree in recreation & sport management from the SEC school in 2019 and his master’s in 2021.