Ethan Russo | University of North Texas

Ethan Russo joined the UNT football staff in 2023. He was promoted to Director of Player Personnel prior to the 2024 season. In this position, Russo is responsible for overseeing all of the Mean Green’s recruiting efforts.

 

In his first season, he served as the Assistant Director of Player Personnel and was tasked with film evaluations, monitoring the transfer portal, updating recruiting boards and assisting in roster management.

 

Prior to UNT, Russo was the Director of Player Personnel at UNLV for the 2022 season. While at UNLV, he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the program’s personnel department. His main responsibilities were managing the roster, evaluating prospects, monitoring the transfer portal and assisting in various recruiting activities. He was an integral part in adding 15 key prospects through the transfer portal.

 

From 2019 to 2022, he worked with the University of Utah’s football program. During his time with Utah, he held the roles of Assistant Director of Player Personnel and Player Personnel & Recruiting Assistant. He was tasked with assisting the defensive coaches with identifying, evaluating, and managing prospects. He was able to help achieve two of the top five highest-ranked recruiting classes in the history of the program at that time, according to 247 Sports (30th in 2020 and 33rd in 2021). Utah achieved their first Pac-12 conference championship in 2021.

 

In 2018, he joined Rice University’s football program as a Player Personnel & Recruiting Analyst. Here, he assisted their Director of Recruiting in talent evaluation, board management, visit logistics, recruiting graphic schedule and a letter writing campaign.

 

Earlier in 2018, he was a Top 30 Operations Intern with the Indianapolis Colts, where he supported the Director of Operations with various events such as the Top 30 program, rookie mini-camp and training camp.

 

Between 2016 and 2018, Russo started a Game Charter position with the Cleveland Browns. During his time with them he was responsible for charting prospects’ film for the 2017 and 2018 NFL Drafts.

 

In 2015, he began his career in athletics as a student-manager for TCU’s football program. He supported the safeties coach and managed the special team’s student-managers during practices. He held this position for the 2015 and 2016 seasons.