Trey Neyer has been on the football staff since 2020, first as the defensive recruiting coordinator, the associate director of recruiting in 2021 and was promoted to the director of recruiting in July 2022.
Neyer oversees the identification, development, strategy and execution of the recruiting plan for the Mountaineer football program.
He develops letter-writing campaigns and the recruiting mailouts. He filters all prospects related to position and coach, develops an academic profile for each prospect and oversees the planning and organizing of the official and unofficial visits. He works with the video coordinator to compile profiles in a library on each of the recruits, manages football recruiting accounts and monitors evaluations and submits profiles for evaluation.
Neyer came to West Virginia in 2020 after serving as the director of player personnel at Miami University (Ohio) since June 2018. He supervised the recruiting efforts for the RedHawks’ football program, oversaw the roster management and planning duties, managed all recruiting evaluations, and maintained and populated the program’s database. He coordinated the assistant coaches recruiting areas and assigned responsibilities and assisted with all recruiting aspects for the head coach.
Prior to that, Neyer was an offensive graduate assistant intern at Miami, working with the running backs and overseeing the team’s kickoff returns. He worked with the running backs during individual meetings and practice.
Neyer ran the defensive scout team meetings and coordinated the scout team secondary during practice. He assisted with opponent breakdowns, opponent kickoff return breakdown and assisted in assembling scouting report. Neyer had gameday communication of coverages and opponent kickoff return. He also recorded offensive play calls and defensive information.
While an undergraduate student at Alabama, Neyer was a student manager for the Crimson Tide football program. The North Bend, Ohio, native graduated with his bachelor’s degree in communication and information sciences in 2017
