Scott Gasper oversees the identification, development, strategy and execution of recruiting for the Mountaineer football program.
He develops letter-writing campaigns and assists in the recruiting mailouts. He filters all offensive prospects related to position and coach, develops an academic profile for each prospect and helps plan and organize official and unofficial visits. He works with the video coordinator to compile profiles in a video library on each of the offensive recruits, manages football recruiting accounts and monitors evaluations and submit profiles for evaluation.
Gasper came to West Virginia after serving as the director of player personnel at Indiana from 2015-18. He oversaw roster management, handled initial transcript evaluation, all official and unofficial visits and scheduled all of the recruiting travel for the coaching staff. He updated and maintained the recruiting database, handled the NFL scouts on their visits to campus and employed 15 student interns and delegated their daily tasks.
Prior to Indiana, he served as the quarterbacks coach at East Mississippi Community College (EMCC) from 2012-14. He coached an All-American in each of his seasons at EMCC and East Mississippi won back-to-back national championships in 2013 and 2014.
Gasper also made coaching stops at Laurel High (Maryland-2011-OC-QB-WR), Knoxville Catholic High (Tennessee-2008-10-OC-QB-WR), Seton Hill (Pennsylvania-2003-07)-passing game coordinator-QB-recruiting coordinator), Bethany College (West Virginia-2003-passing game coordinator-punters), Gatesburg High (Illinois-2002-ST), St. Joseph’s College (Indiana-2001-QB), West Virginia Wesleyan (1999-2000-WR-QB) and was the wide receivers and punters coach for the Swedish National team in 1998.
While at Knoxville Catholic, he tutored two dozen all-district performers, including seven all-state players and two Mr. Football Award winners. He helped lead Seton Hill to the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs in 2007.
Gasper was a four-year starting quarterback at West Virginia Wesleyan from 1995-98, finishing No. 7 all-time in NCAA Division II in quarterback passing rating and holding nine school passing records. He also was the Bobcats’ starting punter for two years and the kicker for a year. He played in the Arena Football League for the Norfolk Nighthawks and Rochester Brigade for two years and one year for the Orebro Black Knights in Sweden.
He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in public relations and a minor in political science from West Virginia Wesleyan in 1998 and earned his master’s degree in business administration from Seton Hill in 2006. He, and his wife, Laurin, have a son, Maddox and a step-daughter, Keira May.
