Scott Gasper is the Senior Director of Recruiting & Player Personnel for the Arkansas football program.
He joins the Razorbacks from Memphis, where he worked for Head Coach Ryan Silverfield as the Tigers’ General Manager since February 2025. Gasper has over 20 years of on-field coaching experience prior to the last decade in a variety of support staff roles.
Prior to Memphis, he served as the director of player personnel and recruiting for three seasons at East Carolina. During his three seasons with the Pirates, Gasper led the program’s efforts in high school recruiting and the identification and evaluations of transfer portal players.
He spent one year (2021) at West Virginia as the director of recruiting after three years as the Mountaineers’ offensive recruiting coordinator (2018-20). During his tenure at West Virginia, he helped coordinate the Mountaineers’ recruiting efforts and activities that included identification, development, strategy and execution of recruiting for the football program.
Prior to being promoted to the director of recruiting, Gasper worked extensively with the WVU offensive staff, planning travel during evaluation and contact periods. He served as the main contact with the compliance office, conducted initial evaluations of offensive student-athletes and organized camps and spring high school football coaches’ clinics on campus.
Gasper was 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 recruiting travel for the coaching staff. He updated and maintained the Hoosiers’ recruiting database, communicated with NFL scouts on their visits to campus and managed a staff of 15 student interns.
His most recent on-field coaching position came at East Mississippi Community College (EMCC) from 2012-14 as the Lions’ quarterbacks coach. He coached an All-American in each of his seasons at EMCC with the Lions capturing back-to-back national championships in each of his last two seasons (2013, 2014).
Gasper spent the early part of his career coaching in the high school and small college ranks. He spent one season at Laurel HS (Md.) as the team’s offensive coordinator/QB/WR coach in 2011, three seasons at Knoxville Catholic HS (Tenn.) as the offensive coordinator/QB/WR coach from 2008-10, five seasons Seton Hill (Pa.) as the passing game coordinator/QB coach as well as the recruiting coordinator from 2003-07, one season coaching punters and serving as the passing game coordinator at Bethany College in 2003 (WVa.), one year at Gatesburg HS (Ill.) in 2002 as the special teams coach, he coached the quarterbacks at St. Joseph’s College (Ind.) in 2001 and two seasons at his alma mater, West Virginia Wesleyan from 1999-2000 as the quarterbacks and wide receivers coach. Gasper also led the wide receivers and punters for the Swedish National team in 1998.
While at Knoxville Catholic HS, 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 while establishing nine program passing records. He also punted for the Bobcats’ for two seasons and served as the team’s 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.
Gasper 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 stepdaughter, Keira May.
