The Big Sky Conference hired Randy Campbell as its Coordinator of Football Officials in April of 2023. Campbell brings more than three decades of officiating experience with stints on the field in the Big 12, Mountain West, and Pac-12 in addition to extensive time within the league’s footprint in FCS and at the NCAA Division II level, including as a coordinator.
 
Campbell’s duties will include hiring, training, and evaluating officials that work all Big Sky home football games. Additional duties include overseeing game evaluators, creating regular educational and training content, and running the annual officiating clinics.
 
“Randy’s well-rounded experience at the highest levels of college football and his genuine passion for officiating shone through during the interview process, and we are excited to welcome him to this important role for the nation’s deepest FCS conference,” Wistrcill said. “Randy is prepared to elevate for the Big Sky what already is a nationally renowned program that has helped to train the best roster of officials in FCS, if not all of college football.”
 
Campbell has spent the past two seasons as the coordinator of football officials for Division II’s Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Campbell’s crews there were selected to work three 2022 NCAA playoff games, a feat that had never been accomplished in the RMAC’s history. Five officials under Campbell’s watch have gone on to work either on the field or in replay in the FCS, including the Big Sky Conference.
 
“I am extremely honored to be the next Coordinator of Football Officials for the Big Sky Conference,” Campbell said. “I have been around the conference in various officiating capacities for close to 30 years, so I am excited to work closely with great schools with outstanding traditions and teams that compete in a very strong conference. I look forward to working with the conference office, administrators, coaches, student-athletes, and officials in continuing to develop a top-tier football officiating program.”  
 
Throughout his career, Campbell has notched more than 20 postseason appearances, including 18 FBS bowl assignments, five Pac-12 Conference championship games, one Big 12 Conference title tilt, the 2016 CFP semifinal contest between Ohio State and Clemson and the 2013 BCS National Championship matchup that featured Notre Dame and Alabama. Additionally, he is the only college football official to have worked a national championship, semifinal, and conference championship game in two Power Five leagues (Big 12 and Pac-12).
 
In addition to his collegiate experience, Campbell worked as an NFL replay official this past season while serving as a replay assistant in the NFL from 2017-21, which included a pair of playoff games for the 2021 postseason.
 
Outside his wealth of football officiating experience, Campbell also has a long resume of women’s basketball officiating work that stretches back to 1989. That experience covers 25 NCAA Tournaments and 80 postseason conference tournament games across 14 leagues, including the Big Sky. Campbell has served as the RMAC’s coordinator of women’s basketball officials since 2014.
 
A graduate of Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Labor Relations, Campbell currently resides in Monument, Colorado, with his wife of 37 years, Janet. They are the proud parents of three children (Tracy, Ryan, and Lisa) and five grandchildren.
 
Campbell replaces Karl Richins, who retired after a decade in the coordinator role and a nearly 20-year association with the Big Sky as a player, official, and administrator.