Bryan Gasser

Biography

An experienced coach and player personnel director with a proven eye for talent, Bryan Gasser enters his first year as Michigan State's General Manager under Pat Fitzgerald. Gasser has coached and recruited multiple NFL Draft picks, NFL players and all-conference players during his nearly 20-year career in college football. Gasser comes to Michigan State following a successful three-year run (2023-25) in the personnel department at Toledo, where he was the program's Director of Player Personnel/Recruiting Coordinator for two years before getting promoted to General Manager of Player Personnel in 2025. The Rockets earned three consecutive bowl berths and compiled a 27-13 record the past three seasons, including an 11-3 season in 2023 and a win over Pitt in the 2024 GameAbove Sports Bowl in Detroit. Gasser helped assemble the No. 1 recruiting class in the MAC in back-to-back years (2023-24), and the 2024 class ranked No. 65 overall in the 247 Team Composite rankings (180.60), the highest ever in the MAC since 247Sports started ranking classes in 1999. He previously worked with Fitzgerald for one season (2022) at Northwestern as an offensive analyst. Before working in player personnel, Gasser was an on-field coach for 14 seasons, most recently as the offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach at Akron for three years from 2019-21. With the Zips, Gasser coached WR KonataMumpfield, who earned Freshman All-America honors by The Athletic in 2019 before transferring to Pitt and getti