West Virginia University Athletics

Morgan Montgomery was elevated to recruiting analyst on the Mountaineer Football staff in May 2024 after serving a year as a recruiting assistant. He spent the past three 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, Montgomery was part of the day-to-day efforts of the recruiting department, with an emphasis on the defensive secondary and wide receiver positions.

He assisted the recruiting efforts during Mountaineer game days, junior days, unofficial and official visits. He helped with high school prospect evaluation from videos and was responsible for making video cut-ups for each person. He was part of the management of the offensive and defensive boards and made sure they were ordered and current. He would assist with putting in coach notes on each prospect, logged phone calls and compiled text messages and letters for coaches. He also helped coaches plan their schedules during contact periods, coordinated their travel and set up times for the coaches to meet with high school coaches when they were recruiting.

Montgomery, a native of Greeneville, Tennessee, graduated from West Virginia with his bachelor’s degree in sport management in 2023.