Football
- Title:
- Recruiting Analyst
- Email:
- ian.scaffidi@mail.wvu.edu
- Phone:
- (304) 293-4194
Ian Scaffidi was elevated to recruiting analyst on the Mountaineer Football staff in May 2024 after serving a year as a recruiting assistant. He spent the three previous years as a student recruiting assistant.
He is part of the recruiting team that manages and oversees the assistant/quality control coaches’ recruiting plan, assists with the initial evaluation process, collects prospects’ transcripts and is a staff host for on-campus recruiting. He has areas and positions to compile recruiting lists based on initial evaluations and handles the updating of the attack lists and prospect cut-ups. He assists with the recruiting internship program, offensive and defensive evaluation process, coaches communication, on-campus recruiting, database management and evaluation and contact period logistics.
He also gives support to his assigned assistant coaches with day-to-day recruiting, position/area lists, communication and evaluations, as well as relaying information about recruits.
As a recruiting assistant, he evaluated high school, transfer portal and junior college prospects. He was part of the recruiting team that managed and organized the communications plan for the offensive coaches and maintained and organized the offensive recruiting boards. He assisted and hosted prospects on unofficial and official visits and supervised interns during the recruiting process. He supported the assistant head coach/offensive line and the special teams coordinator/linebackers coach with position and area recruiting. He also assisted the recruiting team with maintaining the recruiting database and created point of attack tapes for offensive and defensive prospects.
Scaffidi, a native of Pearland, Texas, graduated cume laude from West Virginia with his bachelor’s degree in sport management in 2023.
