Joining UNLV in time for the 2023 season, Austin Van Poucke (rhymes with “BOOK”) took over the role of Director of Football Operations for the Rebels. He came to Las Vegas from the Ivy League after spending the 2022 season in the same role at Yale. Previous to his year with the Bulldogs,Van Poucke served as football operations graduate assistant at the University of 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.
