NAIA resident Waldorf University is retooling its football program after a pair of winless seasons resulted in a head coaching change and, ultimately, the hiring of 25-year coaching veteran David Calloway to oversee Waldorf football.
Calloway now has his next offensive coordinator in place, FootballScoop has learned.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Calloway is hiring Jermaine Gales as the next offensive coordinator of the Waldorf Warriors, the NAIA program located in Forest City, Iowa.
For Calloway, landing Gales means bringing in a veteran coach with previous experience running his own program and also offensive play-caller experience at the NCAA Division I level.
For the previous two seasons, Gales served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at storied HBCU program Alcorn, a Football Championship Subdivision member who competes in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Gales also was the offensive coordinator at Arkansas-Pine Bluff. He'll also have the duties of associate head coach and quarterbacks coach at Waldorf, sources told FootballScoop.
He's got additional NCAA experience at Division II program Mars Hill in North Carolina, among other stops in his coaching journey, and had a two-year run as head coach at NCAA D-II program Lincoln in Missouri.
Calloway is now atop the Waldorf program after most recently being the associate head coach and defensive coordinator at Missouri Valley College. He also has a previous stop at Arkansas-Pine Blue, though he and Gales were not at the school at the same time, as well as Central Methodist University among his coaching destinations.
Waldorf is still finalizing its schedule for the upcoming 2026 season.