Staff Directory
- Title:
- Assistant General Manager & Director of Player Personnel
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DeMarkco Butler joined Kent State as the assistant general manager and director of player personnel for the Golden Flashes in August 2025. Butler brings extensive experience in football operations and player personnel management to Kent State.
Butler most recently served as the assistant athletic director for football operations and player personnel at the University of Central Missouri, where he joined the Mules program in 2022. In that role, he oversaw day-to-day football operations while managing player personnel responsibilities and served as a key liaison between the football program and external agencies and departments.
Before his time with Central Missouri, Butler gained valuable experience as the director of football operations at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. In these positions, he coordinated comprehensive program operations, managed recruiting events, and organized all aspects of team travel logistics, including meals, transportation arrangements, and more.
Butler’s career in collegiate athletics began at Western Illinois University, where he served as a graduate assistant for facilities, events, and game day operations. Later, he worked as an operations assistant for WIU Athletics from 2014 to 2015.
Butler earned his bachelor’s degree in communications and business with a minor in Spanish from Monmouth College in 2010. He completed his master’s in sport management from Western Illinois University in 2016.
