Old Dominion, which capped its 2025 season with a bowl win, is beefing up its personnel department as the program moves into 2026.
Sources tell FootballScoop that head coach Ricky Rahne and the Monarchs are hiring Nick Louvier to become Old Dominion's director of scouting.
It's the first Football Bowls Subdivision position for Louvier. A former junior college player who graduated from Mississippi State, Louvier has spent the past several seasons on staff at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
Arriving there in 2022, Louvier coached the Bulldogs running backs, also added the role of recruiting coordinator and orchestrated much of the program's social media presence.
Louvier helped develop multiple players into NCAA Division I prospects, including in 2024 when his pupil, Trey Hall, signed with then-coach Lane Kiffin's Ole Miss program.
With the addition of Louvier, Old Dominion's front office staff is now set with the following roster, FootballScoop has learned:
— Hunter Sims is general manager, pro liaison
— Tyler Lamar is assistant general manager, player relations
— Stevie Guthoff is director of player personnel
Old Dominion just closed out its best season under Rahne and just the program's second-ever 10-win campaign; Bobby Wilder delivered the first a decade ago in 2016 when he led that Monarchs team to a win in the Bahamas Bowl.
Losing just 27-14 to open the season against eventual undefeated national champion Indiana, Old Dominion closed with a 6-2 mark in Sun Belt Conference play and also ended its season on a six-game winning streak.
The Monarchs will open their 2026 season at home Sept. 5 against Football Championship Subdivision foe Norfolk State, the two schools separated by roughly just five miles, before traveling a week later to play at Virginia Tech, which is entering a new era with ex-Penn State coach James Franklin at the helm.